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COACH
Name: Reed Jarvi
AKA:
Coach Reed
Age: older
than all of us, younger than some of the old boys.
Hometown:
Years
playing rugby:
Rugby
Position:
Best Rugby
Memory:
Something
Interesting about me: |
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ASSISTANT COACH
Name: Rob
AKA:
Assistant Coach Rob
Age:
older than all of us, younger than some of the old
boys.
Hometown:
Years playing rugby:
Rugby Position:
Best Rugby Memory:
Something Interesting about
me: |
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#1 prop, #6 flanker
Name: Raelyn Barlow (no middle name!)
AKA: Razz, Red Foot,
Moth Girl (Thanks, Alex!)
Age:
36
Hometown: Made
in Michigan, raised in Paris, Tennessee (home of world's
BIGGEST Fish Fry!)
Years
playing rugby: 5
Rugby
Position: flanker/prop, occasional 8-Chick
(never to be seen in the back line!)
Best
Rugby Memory: On the pitch: absolute best was
competing in our club's very 1st South Championship
in Furman and scoring a try... then getting Most Valuable
Forward for that match! Off the pitch, I have a zillion
awesome memories, how can a Gemini like me pick just
one?! Guess one of the best was traveling to CA with
the boys and drinking our way through wine country
all day in Napa Valley - while guysgot ready for Nationals!
Something Interesting about
me: I love Snuffleupagus. Yoda is my current
hero. I secretly want "big hair" to make
a comeback. And when I was a reporter, I was nearly
arrested on Fort Campbell, KY military base after
my videographer & I somehow wandered innocently
into a "Classified Area" -- where the Stealth
Bombers and missiles were kept. We were not-so-politely
escorted, at gunpoint, to the Military Police Station
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#2 hooker
Name: Gretchen Williams
AKA: FetchWeiner
Age: 27
Hometown:
Worcester, Massachusetts
Years
playing rugby: 1
Rugby
Position: hooker
Best
Rugby Memory: My best rugby memory so far is
drinking all the way down to the Keys in the Beast
and then all of us trying to put up tents at 2 a.m.,
drunk, with one flashlight.
Something
Interesting about me: I can touch my tongue
to my nose, it comes in handy (wink, wink) |
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#2 hooker, #3 prop
Name: Mary Badino
AKA:
Gazumba Brewer
Age:
25
Hometown: St.
Louis, Missouri
Years playing
rugby: 2
Rugby Position:
prop/hooker
Best Rugby Memory:
So far, winning South Championships…many more
memories to come…who can forget the marine zulu
Something Interesting about
me: I’m a volleyball player turned rugger
– and I ROCK! |
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#3 prop
Name:Kelly Lyon
AKA: Sweet Kelly Lyon
(no S)
Age: 27
Hometown: Downingtown,
PA
Years playing rugby:
4
Rugby Position:
prop
Best Rugby Memory:
Bringing home the 3rd place trophy on our first trip
to Nationals... oh wait, they gave the trophy and
the CHAMPAGNE to 4th place. What? I was thirsty and
got no champagne...
Something
Interesting about me: Still planning to run
for President some day. Have to finish this law school
thing first, and turn 35 I guess! "Kelly Lyon
for Pres in 2020." |
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#3 prop
Name:Keitha Daniels
AKA:
Age:
28
Hometown: LaBelle
Florida
Years playing rugby:
3
Rugby Position:
prop, 8 man
Best Rugby Memory:
Something Interesting about
me: My real name is Heather…but there
are just too many heathers out there, so I use the
middle
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#3 prop
Name:Devon Schweidel
AKA:
Age:
Hometown: Manhattan,
NY
Years playing rugby:
12
Rugby Position:
prop
Best Rugby Memory:
Something Interesting about
me: My beautiful boat is still missing, compliments
of Hurricane Katrina |
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#4 locke
Name: Erynn Salmon
AKA: Buckey
Age:
24
Hometown: Forty
Fort, Pa
Years playing rugby:
7
Rugby Position:
locke
Best Rugby Memory:Playing
against my sister when I was in college.
Something
Interesting about me:The family you get when
you join a rugby team is like nothing else I have
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#5 locke, #3 prop
Name: Jackie Potter
AKA: Tiger, Jackinator
Age: 26
Hometown: Fort Collins,
CO
Years playing rugby:
Started playing April 1999. I've played for the
Came Lejeune Misfits & Lady Hammerheads. BUT-
Whored onto MANY teams! Favorite Team to Whore for:
Twin City Amazons
Rugby Position: locke/prop
Best Rugby Memory:Going
all the way to Washington D.C. for the Ruggerfest
again and ending up playing Cape Fear in the losers,
loser bracket on Sunday after getting wasted with
them the night before. We
played and partyed with those girls ALL the time!!
Most Embarrasing Moment in
Rugby: During the 2004 South Championships
the fields were marked wrong and I dove into what
I thought was the try zone to score. The ref even
blew it a try! Charlotte told the sir that the try
zone was farther up. I got up and ran 10 more yards
and put the ball down again, but the ref didn't
count my try. :(
Something Interesting about
me:I'm a former Military Police Officer for
the U.S. Marine Corps! Semper Fi!
How started playing rugby:
I went to the Washington D.C. Ruggerfest to watch
my friends play rugby and party in our Nation's
Capitol. My girls ended up getting me to play after
I was kidnapped by another team while
their match was going on. My friends said I had
to play with them and not against them. The only
rules and advice they gave me was, don't throw the
ball forward and if someone has the ball, tackle
them! I got put in the Sinbin for a high tackle,
opps! I had a blast and have been playing ever since!! |
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#5 locke
Name: Alicia Reinhold
AKA:
Age:
Hometown:
Years
playing rugby: 2
Rugby
Position: locke
Best
Rugby Memory:
Something
Interesting about me: just married...so just
back to rugby. Baby is Chase (C-dog) |
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#7 flanker
Name: Kelly Hill
AKA: Scooby
Age:
41
Hometown: Noblesville,
Indiana
Years playing rugby:
22 (started in Ft. Bragg)
Rugby
Position: flanker
Best
Rugby Memory:Winning South’s 2 years
in a row
Something Interesting
about me: need never give up! |
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#7 flanker
Name:Crystal Phillips
AKA: Sassy
Age:
I'm still a baby
Hometown:
Years playing rugby:
Rugby Position: flanker
Best Rugby Memory:
Something Interesting about
me: |
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#6 flanker, #8
Name:Michelle Mendoza
AKA: Dozer
Age:
25
Hometown: Miami,
FL
Years playing rugby:
4years and 6 days
Rugby
Position: flanker, 8, Utility
Best
Rugby Memory: It isn't a win, or a try...I'm
not sure if anyone else will know what I'm talking
about (besides one of my first coaches Gabe Puello
that explained the phenomenon to me), but my finest
rugby memory was when I had my first "Rugby Epiphany".
I was in my second season of 15's playing at the Cocoa
Expo for all Florida Day. They had me at outside center
and I had been passed the ball. All of a sudden, everything
went into slow motion. I swear that I remember the
moment as if I were walking through a drill. I saw
my opponents in front of me a two on two. Then, as
if my coach was whispering in my ear, I thought "attach
the space between wing and OC...create the two on
one." It worked. The game sped up after that,
but I will never forget that split second that felt
like an eternity. Oh, I'd also like to add the ball
I picked off for my 95 meter try at Nationals this
year...did you honestly think I'd leave that one out?
Something Interesting about
me: My grand entrance into the Rugby Community
was as a water girl for the FIU Men's team (for 2
yrs). Thanks to the boys (Coach G and Gabe included)
on the team in May of 2002...I finally got the guts
to fall in love with an amazing sport. And thanks
to all their help--making me play "keep up with
the boys", much like older brothers--I've become
the rugger I am today. |
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#6 flanker, #8 locke
Name:Jessica Gardiner
AKA: Christmas Moose
Age:
Hometown:
Years playing rugby:
1
Rugby Position: flanker,
locke
Best Rugby Memory:
Something Interesting about
me: Former U.S. Army Military Police Officer |
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#6 flanker
Name: Adrienne DeBonis
AKA:
Age:
Hometown:
Years
playing rugby:
Rugby
Position: flanker
Best
Rugby Memory:
Something
Interesting about me: FSU Alumni |
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#9 scrum half
Name:Annette Edwards
AKA: Dude
Age:
25
Hometown:
Years playing rugby:
Rugby Position: scrumhalf
Best Rugby Memory:
Something Interesting about
me: No one in the rugby world is allowed to
use my first name. |
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#10 fly half
Name:Lisa O’Donnell
AKA: Lightning
Age: 40
Hometown:
Years playing rugby:
Rugby Position: flyhalf,
scrum half... and EVERYWHERE
Best Rugby Memory:
Something Interesting about
me: I got married to my rugby coach last
year! I am also the new coach of the Palmetto Ridge
High School Girls Rugby Team…Go Bears! |
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#10 fly half
Name:Ingrid Benejam
AKA:
Age:
Hometown: somewhere
in South America
Years playing
rugby:
Rugby Position:
flyhalf
Best Rugby Memory:
Something Interesting about
me: I'm from Venezuela, and I just married
Bob Sponge. |
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#13 outside center
Name:Dana Kuchta
AKA:
Fruitty
Age:
Hometown:
Years
playing rugby:
Rugby
Position: outside center
Best
Rugby Memory:
Something
Interesting about me: |
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#14, #11 winger
Name: Sarah Campbell
AKA: Pee Pee Tu Tu Juiliana
Chicken Nugget Nose
Age:
24
Hometown: Toledo,
Ohio
Years playing rugby:
3
Rugby Position:
winger
Best Rugby Memory:
Winning South’s in 2004, drinking champagne,
sitting on top of the beast, wrapping B. Vince up
in duct tape, …that was a great day!
Something
Interesting about me: I am a cheerleader turned
rugger – anything can happen. |
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#14, #11 winger
Name: Nzinga
Gaines
AKA:
Black Magic
Age:
Hometown:
Years
playing rugby: 3
Rugby
Position: winger
Best
Rugby Memory:
Something
Interesting about me: Tekoa peed in the potty |
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#14, #11 winger
Name: Sheila
E. Valentine
AKA: Snowball, Sheila
E.
Age: 27
Hometown:Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Years playing rugby:
1
Rugby Position: winger
Best Rugby Memory:...........none
yet, I'm a back.....all we do is stand around and
look pretty............ well ok, the night I got
my nickname in the RV 'SNOWBALL' (yes, that snowball).......and
my tattoo on my chest is an animal rescue tattoo,
not a cow.....
Something Interesting about
me: I fall on my face all the time - it's
not that funny to me, but others seem to enjoy it.
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#14, #11 winger
Name: Tracy
Hay
AKA: Speedy
Age:
Hometown: Tampa, Florida
Years playing rugby:
Rugby Position: winger
Best Rugby Memory:
Something Interesting about
me: SHE'S BACK! Tracy has entered the land
of the playing again, after having recently birthed
"Sully" the seed of Bumper's boy-only
loins...
Bumperism: "Do I look like the kind of guy
who carries around girl sperm?" |
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TBD
Name: Sara Budd
AKA: Budd
Age:
24
Hometown: Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan
Years playing
rugby: 2
Rugby Position:
TBD
Best Rugby Memory:
Something Interesting about
me: Kicked out of pre-school! |
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TBD
Name: Sara Hynes
AKA: Ketchup
Age:
Hometown: Steamboat
Springs, Colorado
Years
playing rugby: 1
Rugby
Position: TBD
Best
Rugby Memory:
Something
Interesting about me: Sprained both her ankles
in the first two weeks of practice! |
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TBD
Name: Shellie
G
AKA:
Spanky
Age:
Hometown: Key West, Florida
Years playing rugby:
1
Rugby Position:
TBD
Best Rugby Memory:
Something Interesting about
me: One of four distinguished recipients "Fart
of the Match" medal |
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TBD
Name: Leah Brakefield
AKA:
Age:
Hometown:
Years
playing rugby: 1
Rugby
Position: Back Line
Best
Rugby Memory:
Something
Interesting about me: My little boy Zeke is
a soccer star! |
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#13, #14
Name: Stephanie
Downs
AKA:
Age:
Hometown:
Years playing rugby:
Rugby Position:
Outside Center/Winger
Best
Rugby Memory:
Something
Interesting about me: I have a beautiful 5
year old daughter. |
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rookie
Name: LANE
AKA:
Age:
Hometown:
Years playing rugby:
Rugby Position:
Something Interesting about
me: I run fast and I have a pretty decent beer
drinking regimen. |
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HONOURARY
HAMMERHEADS... |
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HONORARY LADY HAMMERHEAD
#15 full back
Name: Andi Coombs
AKA: Damn Candanadian,
Crazy Canuck, Canuckanoo, Sausage
Age: 30
Hometown: Bobcaygeon,
Ontario, Canada
Years playing
rugby: 10
Rugby Position:
full back mostly.
Best Rugby Memory: Most
were medical (... or forgotten because I was boozy
at the time) ... I recall Lisa yanking on my finger
and saying,"It's not dislocated, you wuss!"
I played on, and then drank my pain away.
Next morning I got my broken purple sausage finger
put in a splint. Redeemed!
Something Interesting about
me: Recently birthed Georgian, the seed of
Gordo's loins. |
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HONORARY LADY HAMMERHEAD
#5 locke
Name: Anisa Stewart
AKA: Red
Age:
Hometown: Fort Myers,
Florida
Years playing rugby:
Rugby Position:
locke.
Best Rugby Memory:
Something Interesting about
me: Recently birthed Sedona, the seed of Rob's
loins. And little Robbie is on the way. Anisa and
Rob have had "relations." Word! |
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HONORARY BABY HAMMERHEAD
#16
Name: cOLtoN
AKA: The wanderer. And
Tracy and Bumper's little guy.
Age:
2
Hometown: Arcadia,
Florida
Years playing rugby:
0
Rugby Position:
all over the field.
Best
Rugby Memory: Having mommy and daddy trying
to practice while I walk out into traffic.
Something
Interesting about me: I like cake. I don't
talk a lot. I have a baby brother named Sully. My
dad is a redneck who goes to "juke joints." |
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HONORARY BABY HAMMERHEAD
#17
Name: cArSOn
AKA: Dana's little
guy.
Age: 1
Hometown: Naples, Florida
Years playing rugby:
0
Rugby Position: I'm
going to be a prop some day.
Best Rugby Memory:
Playing with Colton/defending myself from Colton.
Something Interesting about
me: I hate my stroller, and I can catch a
rugby ball quite well, even though it's almost the
same size as me. |
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HONORARY BABY HAMMERHEAD
#18
Name: seDOnA
AKA: Anisa's little girl
Age: 1
Hometown:
Fort Myers, Florida
Years
playing rugby: 0
Rugby
Position: I'm going to be a locke some day.
Best Rugby Memory: Being
born.
Something Interesting
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HONORARY BABY HAMMERHEAD
#19
Name: tEKoA
AKA: Nzingha's little
boy
Age: 3
Hometown:
Fort Myers, Florida
Years
playing rugby: 0
Rugby
Position: I'm going to be a winger some day.
Best Rugby Memory: .
Something Interesting about
me: |
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HONORARY BABY HAMMERHEAD
#20
Name: cHAsE aka
C-dog
AKA: Alicia's
little boy
Age:
Hometown:
Years
playing rugby: 0
Rugby
Position:
Best Rugby
Memory: .
Something
Interesting about me: |
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HONORARY BABY HAMMERHEAD
#21
Name: gEOrgIaN
aka George
AKA: Andi's
little girl
Age:
4 months
Hometown:
Dunsford, Ontario, Canada
Years
playing rugby: 0
Rugby
Position: I'm going to be a fullback someday.
Best Rugby Memory: .
Something Interesting about
me: I like to smile a lot. And slobber a lot.
I'm trying to talk but I'm not very good at it. Unless
you count what Nzingha taught me, which is: "Yo
dat. We be trippin' yo," which I think means
we're all crazy. |
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