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Established as the amateur "Glendale Raptors" in 2006, the team became a professional club upon joining Major League Rugby as a founding member in 2017, [1] but they played there only three years, competing as the "Colorado Raptors" in their final shortened season of 2020 before withdrawing from the league.
6.3 Elite Women's Rugby. ... The following is a list of the professional sports teams that have played games and been based in the state of Colorado: ... Inactive or ...
The Denver Barbarians Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team based in Denver, Colorado. The Denver Barbarians have won 4 national championships dating back to their first DI title in 1990. [ 1 ] The club's second title came in 1999, during the height of the Rugby Super League , defeating Belmont Shore RFC 22-18.
The Denver Stampede were an American rugby union team that played in the short lived PRO Rugby competition. The Stampede was one of the five teams that began play in PRO Rugby's 2016 inaugural season. The team played its home matches at the University of Denver's CIBER Field. The team was led by head coach Sean O'Leary and captain Pedrie ...
Colorado is the least populous state with a franchise in each of the major professional sports leagues. The state is able to support the teams because it contains a large metropolitan area with a higher population than any other city within 550 miles (885 km).
PRO Rugby -- the first team-sport professional league to launch in the U.S. since Major League Lacrosse in 2001 -- has two exciting games during Week 2.
The Glendale Merlins began as the Colorado Raptors and were the Glendale Raptors until 2017. They include a men's team in the Pacific Rugby Premiership and a women's team in the Women's Premier League. Its top side team played in Major League Rugby from 2018 to 2020. Centennial Tigers: U.S. Australian Football League: Sweetwater Park
The team won the Pacific Rugby Premiership in 2015, defeating San Francisco Golden Gate by 25-11. They repeated the feat in 2016, winning the Pacific Rugby Premiership title by 44-20 against San Francisco Golden Gate at their home field, Infinity Park. The women's squad advanced from USA Rugby's Division I into the Women's Premier League in ...