Blues U-19 Girls

2012 Season:
Practice schedule:
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-7 pm at Trinity Lutheran School.
Practice begins Tuesday, January 31, 2012.

Coach Stephanie Kehrer
steppytc@yahoo.com
989- 297-0386 cell

The Traverse Bay Blues Girls U-19 RFC was founded in 2005 by Coach Stephanie Kehrer.  The first two years were fairly lean as the team struggled to field a full squad.  Still Coach Kehrer and her Assistant Coach George Preston worked tirelessly to develop a team culture and fine tune their coaching philosophy.

2007 saw the team earn their first taste of success as the team finished third in the Michigan Union, first division.  Unfortunately for the squad’s future, graduation left only three returning players.  A massive recruiting effort in the off season brought in over thirty new players to salvage the 2008 season.  At the same time, Jim Kehrer and Matt Szatkiewicz joinedPrestonon Kehrer’s coaching staff staff.

Despite the brand new squad in 2008 and a huge number of underclassmen in the starting lineup, the team ended the regular season with a 6-1-1 record and finished second in the union with a championship match loss to Lakeview.  Expectations were very high going into the 2009 season, but the squad took a step back and finished third in the union, losing to Lakeview in the semi-finals.

With a very strong core of juniors entering their third year of rugby, the team completely dominated the 2010 season all the way through to the State Championship.  The team went undefeated and the closes match for the year was a 35-3 victory over Lakeview in the finals.

Expectations were again high coming into 2011, because the squad lost only three seniors from 2010’s championship team.  Through recruiting, a number of excellent players were also added.  The side did not disappoint as they notched their second straight State Championship with a 30-0 victory over Toledo.  For the season, they out scored their opponents by a cumulative score of 466 – 27.

 

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