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QU Ready for Home Game vs. La Salle
10/3/2025 9:18:00 PM | Women's Rugby
Quinnipiac (2-2) vs. La Salle (2-3)
Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025 | 1:00 PM
QU Rugby Field | Hamden, Conn.
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HAMDEN, Conn. – Quinnipiac women's rugby is set to host La Salle to continue the fall 2025 season on Saturday afternoon. Game time is set for 1:00 PM from the QU Rugby Field in Hamden.
NEW PROGRAM RECORD
Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025 | 1:00 PM
QU Rugby Field | Hamden, Conn.
WATCH: CLICK HERE
HAMDEN, Conn. – Quinnipiac women's rugby is set to host La Salle to continue the fall 2025 season on Saturday afternoon. Game time is set for 1:00 PM from the QU Rugby Field in Hamden.
NEW PROGRAM RECORD
- Alexa Kirschner recorded 22 solo tackles in Quinnipiac's latest contest vs. Lindenwood, setting a new single-game team record. She completed 92 percent of her tackles during the battle against Lindenwood.
- La Salle is 2-3 so far this season. The Explorers most recently defeated Temple on Sept. 28.
- Saturday's matchup will be the first-ever between the two teams.
- Quinnipiac most recently wrapped up the 2024 regular season with a 4-3-2 overall record (2-3-2 NIRA).
- The Bobcats defeated Navy, Penn State, Princeton and AIC in four consecutive games (Sept. 21 – Oct. 12).
- Anna Wright led the Bobcats with 79 tackles a season ago, while Layla Cox ranked second with 61 tackles.
- Layla Cox also led the Bobcats with 10.41 meters/carry, and she found the try zone 10 times during 2024. Fellow returner Lucy Lamborn found the try zone five different times last year.
- This year, the Bobcats' eight-game slate features four home events at the QU Rugby Field in Hamden. Quinnipiac will open up the season at Dartmouth – who made an appearance in the NIRA title game last fall – on Saturday, Aug. 30.
- Quinnipiac will then return to Hamden for a Sept. 6 home opener against Brown, followed by a road trip to LIU on Sept. 13.
- QU then readies for two consecutive home matchups against Lindenwood (Sept. 19) and LaSalle (Oct. 4), before traveling to Navy for a road contest (Oct. 11).
- The final home game of the regular season will take place in Hamden on Oct. 18 vs. in-state foe Sacred Heart, then Quinnipiac concludes the regular season schedule vs. Queens (game will take place at Navy) on Oct. 25.
- Carlson enters her 15th year at the helm of the Quinnipiac Women's Rugby team in 2025-26, leading the transition from a new varsity program into a three-time national champion. Carlson has been a key advocate for women's NCAA rugby and equality in athletics for over a decade.
- As the original head coach of the Quinnipiac women's rugby team added in 2011, Becky Carlson is up to 96 career victories with the Bobcats – including back-to-back-to-back Division I NIRA national championship titles in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Players Mentioned
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