The Potomac Rugby Conference is a men's
intercollegiate rugby conference
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of the
National Small College Rugby Organization
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.
This conference now consist of the college men rugby teams from the
District of Columbia
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and
Maryland
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. It previously included other teams and was also a DII conference affiliated with
USA Rugby.
Member schools
Current members
Former members
A new Division I-AA conference named
Chesapeake Collegiate Rugby Conference was established to begin competition in Fall 2016, consisting of schools from the Potomac, Atlantic Coast and Cardinals Conferences. Georgetown, Mount St. Mary's, Salisbury, and Towson joined the new conference.
Gettysburg College transferred to the Potomac Conference in the Fall of 2016 from the
Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union, but moved to the
Mid Atlantic Rugby Conference in 2018.
Conference champions
Loyola took 4th place at the
national championship
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in 2018.
References
External links
Official website
{{Rugby union in the United States
National Small College Rugby Organization
College rugby conferences in the United States