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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Stephanie Rovetti whitethorn not person played rugby portion she attended Fresno State, but she has decidedly made an interaction connected the players of the Fresno State Women’s Rugby Club.
“Alumni and connections is ever truthful amazing. So anytime I spot if idiosyncratic from Fresno, I’m similar I’m from there," President for the organization, Bella Bonilla said.
Bonilla says watching the USA Women’s Rugby Sevens Team triumph a bronze medal is impervious that anyone tin beryllium palmy successful a athletics without needfully playing it for the bulk of their lives.
“Everyone coming into rugby present astatine Fresno State had ne'er truly played before. Yeah, which is besides awesome due to the fact that each of the USA Women’s Sevens, they had ne'er done rugby truly earlier college.”
Former Fresno State bulldog, and present Olympic bronze medalist, Stephanie Rovetti, didn’t commencement playing rugby until she was 24.
Now, she and her teammates are making history.
“They took the medal, but truly it's a triumph for everyone. It's a triumph for women's sports and particularly women's rugby,” said Bonilla.
A athletics that she says is often overlooked but is simply a large outlet.
Bonilla says she hopes that the triumph volition spark much of an involvement successful women’s rugby.
“My anticipation is that radical are like, ohio my gosh, this sport's benignant of cool. And oh, hey, they're benignant of, you know, they're beauteous bully astatine it,” she said.
Seizing connected the infinitesimal to physique connected the popularity of women’s sports, 1 triumph astatine a time.
“Not losing faith, keeping successful the moment, nary substance the doubt, nary substance the excitement, the confidence, whatever, similar we're successful the moment. We're connecting with each different and we're conscionable doing what's successful beforehand of us,” Rovetti said.
For accusation connected however to articulation the Fresno State Women’s Rugby Club, email them astatine Fresnostatewomensrugbyclub@gmail.com. No acquisition is needed and determination are nary cuts.
