The New York Athletic Club Rugby Football Club is a

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team based in

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that is affiliated with the

New York Athletic Club The New York Athletic Club is a private social club and athletic club in New York state. Founded in 1868, the club has approximately 8,600 members and two facilities: the City House, located at 180 Central Park South in Manhattan, and Travers ...

Sponsorship

American Rugby Premiership

Club honors

* Rugby Super League Champions: 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012 *US Men's Division I National Champions: 2014 *American Rugby Premiership Champions: 2016 * US Men's Division I National Championship Runner-up: 2001 * US Men's 7s National Championship: 6th in 2000 * 7s North East Regional Champions: 2000

Notable players and coaches

NYAC was coached from 2000-2011 by

Mike Tolkin Mike Tolkin is a rugby union coach who served as head coach of the United States national team from 2012 until 2015. He was the head coach for Rugby United New York for the Major League Rugby 2019 Season. He is the current General Manager of P ...

, who also served as the defensive coach (2009-2011 & RWC 2011) and Head Coach (2012-2015 & RWC 2015) for the

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Former coach Bruce McLane is a regular contributor to Ruggermatrix and current head coach of

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Phil Bailey Phil Bailey (born 25 May 1980) is an Australian rugby league footballer who plays for the New York Knights in the USA Rugby League. A former New South Wales and Australian representative player. He previously played for the Cronulla-Sutherland ...

, a former rugby league professional and current USA men's national team 15s defensive coach, took over as head coach for the 2014/2015 season. Phil was assisted by another former professional,

Neil McMillan Neil McMillan (born 15 May 1981) is an Irish rugby union flanker. McMillan was educated at Belfast Royal Academy, and at the age of fifteen was part of the BRA Schools' Cup winning team in 1997. He he was selected for Ireland's Under-19, Unde ...

. Neil spent time with

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, Harlequins, and Sale before moving to New York.

USA Eagles

Past and current Eagles include: *

Alexander Magleby Alexander Magleby (born February 19, 1978) is the CEO of the professional rugby union team, The New England Free Jacks. He is a former professional rugby union coach, and former United States national team player and captain. Playing career Mag ...

– hooker (7s), flanker (15s), 2004 7s captain, coach of the US national rugby sevens teamAlexander Magleby Player Profile on usarugby.org
*

Mike Petri Michael Zachary Petri (born August 16, 1984) is a former American rugby union player who played for Rugby United New York (RUNY) of Major League Rugby (MLR). His position was scrum-half. He is known as "Peaches" by his teammates. He currently i ...

– starting scrumhalf for the

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during the

2011 Rugby World Cup The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. The International Rugby Board (IRB) selected New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japan and South Af ...

*Brian Doyle *

Louis Stanfill Louis Stanfill (born May 30, 1985 in Sacramento, California) is an American former rugby union player who last played for San Diego Legion in Major League Rugby. He previously played for the United States national team. He played at flanker or ...

– starting flanker for the

during the

*Dan Power *Matt Wyatt *Jacob Sprague *Justin Hundley (7s) *

Toby L'Estrange Toby L'Estrange (born September 2, 1988) is an Australian-American former rugby union player who played flyhalf for London Welsh and for the United States Eagles. L'Estrange was supposed to join the U.S. team for the June 2012 tests, but was un ...

* Chris Chapman *

Tom Coolican Thomas Coolican (born 26 August 1988) is a former Australian-American rugby union player. He played professionally for the San Francisco Rush in 2016. He previously played in Australia for Sydney University in the Shute Shield and Sydney Stars i ...

* Troy Hall * Derek Asbun *Seamus Kelly *Al MacFarland *AJ MacGinty *Nate Brakeley *James Aldridge

References

External links

* New York Athletic Club Rugby union teams in New York City Rugby union teams in New York (state) Rugby clubs established in 1973 {{NYC-sport-stub