Cal won a national college rugby 15s championship for the first time since 2017 and for the 29th time overall by knocking off Life University 55-38 in the 2025 D1A National Collegiate Championship ...

The team is fresh off a dominant 2024-25 season that included a 14-0 record in preseason sevens, 11-1 record in regular season XVs matches and a national championship victory. This past offseason, Cal ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- We never really know how life can change in an instant, until it happens. Robert Paylor knows all too well. "In one moment I was living my dream. In the next, my worst ...

This past Saturday in Indianapolis, collegiate rugby’s most successful program added one more accolade to its jam-packed trophy cabinet. The Bears captured their 34th championship — and 29th under 15s ...

A classic college rugby match on Saturday afternoon ended with Cal holding off East Bay rival Saint Mary’s 48-45 before a sold-out crown at Cal’s Witter Field. With the win, the fifth-ranked Bears (11 ...

Cal faces East Bay rival Saint Mary’s in Berkeley on Saturday afternoon with a berth in the college rugby national championship game on the line. The semifinal contest between Cal (12-1) and the Gaels ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- On May 6, 2017, Robert Paylor's life changed in a flash. One moment, he was in a scrum playing for the UC Berkeley rugby team, the next moment he was staring at a ceiling in the ...

Cal announced on Tuesday that the Golden Bears rugby program has become fully endowed, making it the third Cal sport that is endowed. Rugby joins Cal’s men’s and women’s golf programs, which reached ...

Cal rugby player Robert Paylor was told by doctors he would never have use of his hands or legs again after being paralyzed during a game in 2017. Nearly eight years later, Paylor is not only beating ...

STANFORD – It couldn’t have gone any better for the Stanford women’s rugby team. Playing on its home turf against rival Cal, the Cardinal earned its second consecutive USA Rugby Women’s D1 National ...