Mission Statement

The purpose of the California State University Sacramento program is to teach, study and pursue excellence in the game of rugby. The program is committed in striving and maintaining a varsity status as an athletic program that reflects the attitude and values of the University's overall mission: academic excellence, leadership, integrity, diversity, and success.

The program's objective is to teach basic skills and fundamentals of the game through a high performance setting, competitive drills and video analysis. More importantly the program will develop and concentrate on team accomplishments, foster team unity, and encourage school pride. The program also offers an Olympic weight lifting instructor. The team will have speed and agility training sessions that will be incorporated with the Olympic lifting.

Furthermore, one of the programs overall goal is to prepare the student-athletes for lifelong learning and leadership roles in the business and professional world.

Sac State Rugby Goals
The goals of the Sac State Rugby Program are:

• Pursuit of excellence in the game of rugby
• Teach Basic skills and fundamentals of the game
• Reinforce high performance, using competitive drills and video analysis
• Develop and concentrate on team accomplishments
• Foster team unity
• Encourage school pride
• Formalize speed and agility training sessions and Olympic lifting exercises