For the Arizona men’s rugby team, preseason training started quickly in the middle of August and ended in November with a bang.
The team added 53 new players in August, more than doubling its roster. Twenty-three of those players were walk-ons.
“This gives our team enough bodies to fill out each of our three teams,” said Arizona men’s rugby head coach Sean Duffy .
This was Duffy’s second year as head coach. He is also the first UA coach to be paid in program history.
UA rugby recruits come from all over. There are international players from England, Nigeria, Japan and from the U.