Dartmouth's Taylor Johnson 2010 Higgy Recipient!

Dartmouth's Taylor Johnson vs Yale Fall 2010

Congratulations to Taylor on being named a 2010 Kevin Higgins College Scholarship recipient.

San Diego, CA (November 1, 2010) - Taylor Johnson has always excelled scholastically. She was the 2010 class valedictorian at View Park Prep High in Los Angeles, CA graduating with a 4.1 GPA. “Her work ethic on the rugby field equals her work ethic for her studies,” said Stuart Krohn, Director of Inner City Education Foundation (ICEF) Rugby and Johnson’s rugby coach. “Academics were all she had ever seriously pursued until she found rugby.”

She was able to transfer the attributes that made her an excellent student to the pitch and she realized then that she “could be smart as well as strong; be both an excellent student and an athlete. It was a turning point in my life.”

Taylor’s rugby pursuit began six years ago at ICEF. She has always played in the forwards, beginning her career in the front row but for the past few seasons has been plying her trade in the backrow. She started out in 6th grade as a founding member of the ICEF girl’s flag rugby team.

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United States Rugby Football Foundation

Three men of vision - Ed Riseborough, Bob Lemire and the late Fritz Grunebaum established the United States Rugby Football Foundation in Boston in 1963. They believed that the 100-year-old sport of rugby could take root in the United States through the creation of a foundation whose mission would be to grow and promote the sport at the grass roots level. From its origins as the Bay State Rugby Foundation, the Foundation grew under Fritz's guidance and the leadership of Dick Poulson of the Washington Rugby Club and Joe Walsh of Boston and M.I.T. Today, the Foundation continues to build on this bold vision through its programs and activities. Rugby is now played by over 2,200 men's, women's, masters, girls and boys clubs in the United States with the greatest growth coming in the formation of new youth and high school rugby programs.