{"id":2843,"date":"2012-09-26T13:49:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T13:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:31:46","slug":"fairfield-rugby-finally-makes-the-fairfield-university-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2843","title":{"rendered":"Fairfield Rugby finally makes the Fairfield (University) Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The cover story &#8211; but it&#8217;s the women&#8217;s team!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"313\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e2017d3c52611a970c-320wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11983\" title=\"Faifireld mag rugby cover 9-25-2012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e2017d3c52611a970c-320wi.jpg 313w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e2017d3c52611a970c-320wi-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Here&#8217;s the full article.<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fairfield.edu\/magazine\/?p=1989\" target=\"_self\">Fairfield\u2019s women\u2019s rugby team has quietly become one of the best in the country<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rebecca Ponessa \u201915 says choosing to join the Fairfield Women\u2019s Rugby<br>\nClub has been one of the best decisions she has made at Fairfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are a reflection of a family. We have former cheerleaders,<br>\nequestrians, and girls who have never played a sport in their lives. We<br>\naccept any person who chooses to give rugby a shot. Yes, it is a new and<br>\ngrowing sport for women in college, but we will support anyone who<br>\ngives it a little time and effort.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI know that all of us lay everything out every time we walk on the<br>\npitch, and when we come off we have nothing left,\u201d she added. \u201cOur team<br>\nhas done well over the years because we are constantly building. I think<br>\nwe will have nothing short of an amazing team for another year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>They won their game last weekend, 50-0.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt;\">Hey, good on them!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cover story &#8211; but it&#8217;s the women&#8217;s team! Here&#8217;s the full article. Fairfield\u2019s women\u2019s rugby team has quietly become one of the best in the country Rebecca Ponessa \u201915 says choosing to join the Fairfield Women\u2019s Rugby Club has been one of the best decisions she has made at Fairfield. \u201cWe are a reflection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11984,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions\/11984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}