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San Diego State Aztecs

Full name	San Diego State Aztecs Rugby Club
Union	USA Rugby
Nickname(s)	Aztecs
Founded	1958; 66 years ago (1958)
Location	San Diego, California
Ground(s)	ENS 700 Field
Coach(es)	Jason Merrill (men) Tony Roulhac (women)
League(s)	Division 1-A – California (men) Division 1 – Pacific Desert (women)
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Official website
arc.sdsu.edu/mens_rugby

San Diego State Aztecs Rugby Club is the rugby union club that represents San Diego State University (SDSU). The men's team competes in Division 1-A in the California Conference and the women's team competes in Division II in the Pacific Desert Conference. The team plays its home games at ENS 700 Field.

The men's team won the 1987 National Collegiate Rugby Championship.

Teams

Men's team

Since the inception of the club in 1958, men's rugby has been both a popular and successful sport on campus at SDSU, so much so that Aztec alumni went on to set-up the rugby team of Old Mission Beach Athletic Club (OMBAC) in 1966 and also to found San Diego Old Aztecs RFC in 1978. In addition to the 1987 National Championship, the Aztecs have won numerous SCRFU Collegiate Conference titles to progress to the national playoffs, including 1996, 2007, 2008 (quarterfinalists), 2009 (semifinalists), 2010 (quarterfinalists) and 2012 (semifinalists). San Diego State men's teams have also excelled at the short-form of the game; finishing second at the 2010 Collegiate Rugby Championship (broadcast live on NBC) and qualifying to play in the USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate National Championships in 2011 (quarterfinalists), 2012 and 2015 (quarterfinalists).

Women's team

Women first represented San Diego State at rugby in 1975 and, like the men, had an astonishingly successful introduction, finishing the season second in the nation after losing the inaugural Women's Collegiate National Championship to the University of Colorado. The team played successfully for eleven seasons, even going on an undefeated four-match tour of New Zealand in 1981. In 1986 the Aztecs combined with a local club team the Rio Grande Surfers. The Surfers, now known as the San Diego Surfers, play in the Women's Premier League, the highest level of women's rugby in the United States. The Aztec women's team has recently been re-established on campus and they were progressing through the 2020 season until it was cut-short by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Club history

Founding and inaugural season

The Aztec Rugby Club, in its first season, took first place in the Southern California Rugby Association ... it appears that rugby will have a very favorable future on Montezuma Mesa.

sic: read Southern California Rugby Football Union

The first record of anyone having an interest in playing rugby at San Diego State College (as it was then) is an advertisement in the school newspaper, The Daily Aztec, at the end of the fall semester of 1957 asking for Men interested in forming a rugby team to attend a meeting. More than 45 people turned up so a season schedule was put together along with a timetable of practices to be held over the winter break and Mr. Fred Quiett of the university's Engineering Department agreed to become the club's first faculty representative.

The team played its first competitive matches in the spring semester at the Southern California Rugby Football Union Carnival in Santa Ana on Sunday February 9, 1958, defeating Pomona-Claremont 8–0 and losing to the Pepperdine College Waves 3–8. The first of seven league matches that season was played against El Centro in El Centro on Saturday February 15, the Aztecs won 15–0. Their next match was their first at home, it was played at Aztec Bowl (now the site of Viejas Arena) against Ontario and was won by the Aztecs 20–14.

Winning ways continued that first Cinderella season with a further three victories before suffering their first league defeat to Eagle Rock Athletic Club. This set-up their final match with Santa Ana College on the next weekend as a championship decider, the Aztecs won the match and thus they also clinched the league in their inaugural season. Four of the team were named on the Southern California All star team (Bob Johnston, Ernie Trumper, Jim Hansen and Ian Richardson), two to the All-star second team (Bob Shank and Jim Hastings) and one honorable-mention (Ray Fackrell).

National championship

The Aztecs won the US National Men's Collegiate Rugby Championship in 1987, overcoming Dartmouth College rugby club 22–6 in the semifinals and beating the United States Air Force Academy rugby club 10–9 in the final. The 1987 men's rugby team was inducted into the San Diego State University Aztec Hall of Fame in 2005.

Notable alumni

International fifteens players

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2020)

Alumni of San Diego State who have played international rugby union

• Sean Allen
• Scott Bracken –– also current  U20 men's 15's head coach
• Derrick Broussard
• Dan Dorsey –– Best known at SDSU in the mid 1990s as a nose tackle on the Aztec football team
• Ante Drazina
• Dennis Gonzalez
• Chris Harju –– 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup winner inducted, with her teammates, into US Rugby Hall of Fame in 2017
• Duncan Kelm
• Chris Lippert –– US Rugby Hall of Fame inductee 2020
• Craig Levine –– Maccabi USA Rugby Hall of Fame inductee 2017
• Chris O'Brien –– Kicker on Aztec football team while All American rugby player at SDSU; later Eagles specialist kicking coach. Inducted into the US Rugby Hall of Fame in 2023
• Mike Saunders –– US Rugby Hall of Fame inductee 2018
• Brian Vizard –– US Rugby Hall of Fame inductee 2016
• Scott Yungling

Professional fifteens players

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2020)

Alumni of San Diego State who have played professional rugby union

• Derrick Broussard (SDSU 2008–2013) –– San Diego Legion (2018, 2020–)
• Gil Covey (SDSU 2015–2018) –– San Diego Legion (2018–)
• Dan Dorsey (SDSU 1995–1998) –– Bath Rugby (2001–2002) Ospreys RFC (2002-2003) Rotherham Titans (2003-2004)
• Nico Gilli (SDSU 2018–2021) –– San Diego Legion (2022–)
• Kalei Konrad (SDSU 2011–2015) –– San Diego Breakers (2016–2017)
• Nick Lupian (SDSU 2014–2018) –– San Diego Legion (2018–)
• Austin Switzer (SDSU 2016–2017) –– San Diego Legion (2017–2018)
• Ryan Walls (SDSU 2015-2017) –– San Diego Legion (2018–2019)

International sevens players

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2020)

Alumni of San Diego State who have played international rugby sevens

• Derrick Broussard
• Dennis Gonzalez
• Duncan Kelm
• Mike Saunders –– US Rugby Hall of Fame inductee 2018
• Stephen Tomasin –– All-American (7s and 15s), Bronze medalist at 2015 Pan American Games and participant at the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens
• Brian Vizard –– US Rugby Hall of Fame inductee 2016

Professional sevens players

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2021)

• Stephen Tomasin –– One of the first players ever signed by Premier Rugby Sevens (PR7s) in 2021

Collegiate All-Americans and Junior Internationals

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2020)

Students and alumni of San Diego State who have been awarded All-American honors for rugby, played for the US Junior All Americans (U20s), the US Collegiate All Americans (U23s) or who have played international rugby at a junior level for another nation.

Year	Fifteen-a-side rugby				Seven-a-side rugby
	First team		Second team	Honorable mention	First team	Honorable mention
1985	O'Brien, Chris
1985	Lenihan, Pat
1986	Loberg, Eric
1986	Parker, Dwayne
1986	Cole, Colin
1987	Forester, Steve
1987	Lippert, Chris
1987	Parker, Dwayne
1988	Allen, Sean
1988	Perry, Kevin
1988	Gonzalez, Dennis
1988	Forster, Steve
1995			Yungling, Scott
1996	Yungling, Scott
1997	Blatt, Aaron
1998	Blatt, Aaron
2002	Smith, Greg
2005				Winter, Zach
2009	Kelm, Duncan			Heiler, Zach
	Mulhall, Stephen			Purcell, Jamie
	Purcell, Brenden
	Ross, Alex
2010	Kelm, Duncan			Bredesen, Chris
	Ross, Alex			Buboltz, David
				Honaker, Darrell
				Purcell, Jamie
2012	Kelm, Jamie
	Konrad, Kalei (SDSU 2010-2015)
2013	Tomasin, Stephen U23
2014	Konrad, Kalei
2015	Konrad, Kalei					Konrad, Kalei
2016	Lupian, Nick U23
2017	Jorstad, Jacob (SDSU 2015–2019) U20			Zinda, Jacob

Rugby coaches and administrators

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2020)

Alumni of San Diego State who have become coaches and/or administrators of rugby at the highest level

• Nic Benson –– Deputy Commissioner Major League Rugby
• Reldon “Bing” Dawson –– US Rugby Hall of Fame inductee 2018
  • Played rugby and football at San Diego State University graduating in 1967
  • Began his coaching career under Don Coryell and John Madden as a Graduate Assistant at SDSU
  • Coached OMBAC for 20 years creating a rugby powerhouse
    • US 7's Club Champions 1985, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2006
    • US 15's Champions 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, and 1996
    • Rugby Super League Champions 2006
  • more than 70 OMBAC players coached by Dawson between 1985 and 2006 represented the U.S. in 7's or 15's
  • He also coached Southern California Griffins, the Pacific Coast Grizzlies and the U.S. Eagles National Teams
• Cornel Muller –– Operations and Production Manager at Major League Rugby
• Giovanni Vaglietti –– Executive Director, USA Youth and High School Rugby (the sanctioned body for all Youth & High School Rugby across the country)
  • Born and raised in South Africa, Vaglietti came to San Diego State University on an athletic scholarship
  • He worked in San Diego State University’s Athletic Department
  • He also worked at the Australian Open, the BNP Paribas Open and ClubCorp
  • Previously CEO of Southern California Youth Rugby
• Bob Watkins –– US Rugby Hall of Fame inductee 2015
  • played rugby for San Diego State University, Old Mission Beach Athletic Club and the Southern California XV.
  • Founding Director of U.S.A. Rugby Football Union (Director 1975-1991, President 1983-1987 & 1989-1991)
  • Managed U.S. Eagles versus Canada, U.S.S.R., South Africa, New Zealand, England, Wales and Hong Kong
  • Past President of the Pacific Coast and Southern California Rugby Football Unions
  • Chairman of the U.S. Rugby Super League and U.S. Rugby Foundation.

Notable coaches

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2020)

Former coaches of San Diego State Aztec rugby who have played and/or coached international and/or professional rugby

• Scott Bracken
  •  men's 15's player
  •  U20 men's 15's head coach
• Steve Gray
  •  men's 15's player and captain,
  •  men's 7's player, captain and assistant coach
  •  women's 7's assistant coach
  • US Rugby Hall of Fame inductee 2016, Gray coached the Aztecs to the National Championship in 1987.
• Matt Hawkins –– SDSU Assistant and later Head Coach 2008 - 2010
  •  men's 15's player
  •  men's 7's player and head coach
• Dan Payne
  •  men's 15's player (2007) and assistant coach (2011 Rugby World Cup)
  •  USA Selects head coach 2009
  • USA Rugby Chief Executive Officer 2016
  • USA Rugby General Manager of High Performance 2021
  • Coached the Aztecs 2006–2009
• Matt Sherman
  •  men's 15's player and assistant coach
  •  U18 boys head coach
  • Sherman spent two seasons as San Diego State's head coach, leading the Aztecs to the Final Four in 2009 and the National quarterfinals a year later.
• Zack Test
  •  men's 7's player
  •  United States Pan American Games bronze medallist
  •  men's 15's player
  • San Diego Legion assistant coach (2017-2020) and co-head coach (2020–)

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External links

• Official website
• San Diego State Aztecs rugby union on Twitter

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v t e College rugby teams based in California
Division 1	NCAA ESW NIRA DI (women) none USA Rugby D1-A (men) Cal Poly SLO Grand Canyon University Long Beach State San Diego State Santa Clara University St Mary's College UC Berkeley UC Davis UCLA UC Santa Barbara USC D1-Elite (women) none D1-AA (men) Chico State Fresno State Sacramento State San Francisco State San Jose State Stanford UC Santa Cruz D1 (women) none NCR D1 (men) Cal Maritime Claremont Colleges University of San Diego Azusa Pacific University MiraCosta College D1 (women) MiraCosta College
Division 2	NCAA ESW NIRA DII (women) none USA Rugby D2 (men) Cal State Fullerton Cal State Northridge California Lutheran Point Loma Nazarene UC San Diego D2 (women) Cal Poly SLO Cal State Northridge Chico State Claremont Colleges Fresno State San Diego State San Jose State Stanford UC Berkeley UC Davis UC Santa Cruz NCR D2 (men) none D2 (women) none
Division 3	NCAA ESW NIRA DIII (women) none USA Rugby D3 (men) Biola University Occidental College Pepperdine University UC Irvine UC Riverside Westmont College Whittier College D3 (women) Cal State Fullerton Cal State Long Beach Cal State Monterey Bay California Lutheran University Humboldt State University Occidental College Pierce College Sacramento State University Santa Clara University Santa Rosa Junior College St Mary’s College UC Irvine UC Los Angeles UC Riverside UC San Diego UC Santa Barbara University of San Francisco USC NCR D3 (men) none D3 (women) none

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