The Hartford Wild Rose Women's Rugby Football Club was established in the spring of 76' and were made up of the girlfriends and wives of the Hartford Wanderers Men's RFC. After seeing a women's team from Boston play, they decided to form their own team. Several members of the Wanderers helped get the Hartford Women's team started, today, we play among the elite of Women's teams in the United States. The longevity of this team has proved, you definitely don't have to be crazy to play rugby, just ready to take the hits and keep on going!

The Roses' participate in tournaments across the East coast. The team travels from Vermont all the way down to DC for tournaments and matches. In the summer the Roses play in 5-6, 7's and 10's matches to stay in shape for the fall season. Generally the fall season consists of 8-10 matches while the spring schedule has about 5-6 matches and about 2 tournaments.

For information on practices, please email the team coaches at the addresses below:
Rick Brainerd, Head coach rjbrainerd@sbcglobal.net
Tom Felke, Back coach thomas.felke@uconn.edu
Karen Anderson, Forward coach bigproppa@hotmail.com