This group listerv will have
only 1 to 2 messages a month and will solely used as a communication
of Alumni events, Game times, Fund Raising Events or kudos to players that
have made Select Side or National Team venues. We appreciate
your support and patience as we work towards the goal of involving
all veteran Valkyries and/or support groups.
If you know someone that might
be interested in this group...feel free to pass their information
onto Meg Pace ffmpace@netscape.net
or Wendy Young scooterwe@gmail.com.
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1993 - 1994 |
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1997 |
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1998 or 1999 |
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From Kim Davis: West Championship tourney in 1998 or 99. Dallas was still defunct and weren't cipped, so we picked up some of their players to cipp with us so we'd have a full side for West. The fields were covered in goose poop because rain had forced us off the nice pitches at the University in Kansas City and onto some very rural secondary fields on the Missouri side of the river. We drove up there in two vans, and one van got lost in Dallas and nearly ended up in Texarkana on the way home. It was so muddy that year that Mona made us wash the mud off our bodies using parking lot puddles and our own dirty socks before she'd let us get into the rental vans. Luckily, she had also made us set aside a clean set of clothes so we didn't have to ride back to the hotel in our knickers.
From Janna Swain: This is from the Valks' first trip to Western Regionals, was the 98-99 season (my 1st season of rugby), but the pic was in 1999. |
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Mardi Gras Tournament
1999 |
2000 |
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From Kate Nichol: Lineout pic is Austin against ? around 2000. Damn we are high! |
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From Kate Nichol: Austin reps of the first Texas Select side, playing in the High Desert classic. 2000 |
2001 |
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From Kim Davis: Llittle Rock Tourney around Fall 2001. Mojo & Shannon had found those safety-orange beanies for cheap at wal-mart and many of us joined in the fun. |
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From Kate Nichol: Back row pic is from the scrimmage when Ken Hudson was coaching us...2001. |
2002 |
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From Kim Davis: This photo is from Wests, also in Kansas, and probably in 2002 or so. We were significantly classier by then. |
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From Kate Nichol: Austin v Alamo City. ca 2002 |
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From Kim Davis: This photo is from West, Kyle & Erik were both coaching.
From Janna Swain: I remember because I was trying everything I could to be rehabbed enough from a serious sprained ankle to play that April (estimated Spring 2001 or 2002). |
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2003 |
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From Kate Nichol: JJ and Laura Mac as eagles, 2003? |
2004 |
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From Kate Nichol: Meg making a tackle at Pumpkinfest 2004. Kate N in support. |
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From Kate Nichol: Austin v Coast womens rugby, 2004 challenge match. You kicked our butts |
2005 |
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2006 |
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Best of the
West Champions 2006 |
2007 |
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Valkyries vs Glendale Lady Raptors in Glendale, CO. We played in the new Infiniti Rugby Stadium in Colorado. 7 cameras caught all the action and it was amazing to say the least. |
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From Kim Davis: I was stopping a nose bleed inflicted by my teammate in a Texas Select Side Game against one of the Colorado teams in Colorado Springs. They eventually cut the strings off the tampons so I could drink without trailing the strings in it. After those got soaked through (from the nosebleed, not the beverage) we used another set. I'm still paying for the surgery from straightening my nose out (seriously). |
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