Support your local Hooker!

Get your mind out of the gutter! I don't mean street hooker, but a rugby hooker! Haha... I'd always thought that was an interesting bit of British humor since playing rugby at Oxford. A hooker is the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot. I didn't actually play forward hooker, I usually played forward loose or tighthead prop on either side of the hooker. The scrum is my favorite part of playing rugby. I described it here in more detail after a Rugby 7's Cupper blog post while I was abroad.

So the good news is I found a women's rugby team in Denver I can play on! Sometimes these metro teams are only for experienced women, but this team, Black Ice, is fairly new and open to people of all levels of experience. I love working out, but nothing drives me to work harder than team participation. SO excited to join the team. I'm going to wait a couple weeks and see how things pan out with my new job, but I think this will work. Most practices are after I'm out of work. The season has already begun, so I don't know if they'll suggest I wait for next year, but here's hoping I can join soon. Cheers!