2025 Division 1-A Rugby Championship

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The 2025 Division 1-A Rugby Championship was the thirteenth season of the Division 1-A Rugby championship, the annual university rugby union competition run by USA Rugby involving the top sixteen college teams in the United States. St. Mary's entered as defending champions beating Navy in the 2024 final 26–22 to secure their fourth championship. Cal beat Life in the final 55–38 securing their 27th national collegiate championship and their 29th title including their two Varsity Cup Championship victories.

Teams Sixteen clubs from the five major conferences compete in the 2025 National Championship playoffs.

The distribution of teams is: California: two teams Independent: four teams Rugby East: five teams Mid-West Conference: three teams Rocky Mountain: two teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

California East IndependentMid-West Rocky Mountain Cal Poly Saint Mary's Army Life Mount St. Mary's Navy Penn State Arizona California Central Washington UCLA Arkansas State Davenport Lindenwood BYU Colorado State University of Utah

Team locations

Standings

+ Rugby EastTeamRecordPD1 Navy6–1+1697312 Life6–1+2526303 Army6–1+1006304 Mount St. Mary's5–2+495255 Queens5–2+484246 St. Bonaventure4–3–13197 University of Mary Washington3–4+405178 Walsh University2–5–524129 Penn State2–5–6331110 Kutztown2–5–6531111 Belmont Abbey College1–6–662612 Southern Virginia0–7–38100

+ Big TenBig Ten East Team Record PDBP Points 1 Notre Dame 3–0 3 +63 152 Ohio State 2–1 +84 4 123 Michigan State 1–2 –75 0 44 Michigan 0–3 –75 0 3Big Ten West Team Record PDBP Points 1 Indiana 3–0 +101 2 142 Wisconsin 2–1 +49 2 103 Illinois 1–2 +17 2 64 Purdue 0–3 –67 0 0

+ Mid-WestTeamRecord1 Lindenwood2 Davenport3 Arkansas State4 Adrian5 McKendree

+ CaliforniaTeamRecord1 Saint Mary's8–0+6178402 Cal Poly7–1+5539373 UC Santa Barbara6–2+646304 Long Beach5–3+495255 San Diego State3–5–2394166 Sacramento State2–6–2085137 Santa Cruz2–6–2355138 Santa Clara2–6–3595109 UC Davis1–7–27037

+ IndependentTeamRecord Arizona8–6 California11–1 Central Washington6–2 Grand Canyon University5–4 UCLA4–4 University of Texas at El Paso Texas A&M

+ Rocky MountainTeamRecord BYU5–0+353525 Colorado State5–0+216424 Air Force3–2+4315 Utah State2–3–107210 University of Wyoming2–3–14408 University of Colorado1–4–6248 Utah Valley1–4–14826 University of Utah1–4–10915

Bracket Playoffs

Round 1

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Rudy Scholz Award Winner Oscar Treacy – CWU

Finalists Bradley Crane – Life University Roanin Krieger – Navy Duncan Krige – Lindenwood Oscar Treacy – CWU John Wilson – Saint Mary's

Nominations Coby Baker – Cal Poly Matteo Berenger – Arizona Dom Besag – Saint Mary's Bastian Brunello – Mount St. Mary's Adam Chadwick – Life University Evan Corbett – Mount St. Mary's Bradley Crane – Life University Antonio Esteves – Brown Nate Gould – Army Aaron Juma – heeling / UMW Roanin Krieger – Navy Duncan Krige – Lindenwood Hilton Olivier – Queens U. Charlotte Jack Phillips – Kentucky Campbell Robb – CWU Rand Santos – Cal Will Sherman – UCLA Oscar Treacy – CWU Logan Turner – UCLA William Webb – Navy Solomon Williams – Cal John Wilson – Saint Mary's

2024–2025 First Team All Americans

Aaron Juma – Mary Washington Aaron Van Dyk – Arkansas State Adam Chadwick – Life University Andrew Bardak – Army Asher Webb Lindenwood  Avion Ganse – Navy Bastian Brunello – Mount St. Mary's Bautista Araujo – Life University Ben Peters – Mary Washington Benji Kemp – Army Bradley Crane – Life University Brett Dogiewicz – Cal Poly Brian Bogne – California Brook Vaitohi – BYU Byron Finley – California Cade Crist – California Kade Cunningham – Life University Cameron Blair – Arizona Campbell Robb – Central Washington Cathal Coakley – Saint Mary's Chad Tinney – Lindenwood Charles Jansen van vuuren – Davenport Charlie Walsh – California Coby Baker – Cal Poly Cole Williams – Wyoming Connor Devos – Lindenwood Dalton Slaughter – Arizona Daniel Moscrop – Mary Washington David Scanlon – Lindenwood Dom Besag – Saint Mary's Drew Baublitz – Navy Duncan Krige – Lindenwood Ed Soeder – Navy Eduan Van Heerden – Lindenwood Elias Garza – Life University Evan Corbett – Mount St. Mary's Freddie Jobber – UCLA Gabe Savage – Army George Engles – Army Hayden McKay – Mount St. Mary's Henry Duke – Virginia Hunter Modlin – Saint Mary's Ian Bullock – Navy Ian Roudybush – Penn State Iosefa (JT) Toia'ivao – Saint Mary's Iremia Iremia – California Jack Breslan – Arizona Jacob Hall – Arizona Jacob Razo – Illinois Jake Cornelius – Navy James Rose – Life University James Tenney – BYU Jeremy Zwick – Lindenwood Jeronimo Ballesty – Michigan State Joey Reiss – Indiana John Henry Rouse – Saint Mary's John Wilson – Saint Mary's Jordan Vassel – Life University Joshua Cox – UCLA Joshua Peacock – Davenport  King Matu – Saint Mary's Kye Jones – Central Washington  Lachlan Treister – Penn State  JD Bengston – Navy Leon Best – Life University Logan Ballinger – Life University Logan Turner – UCLA Lucas Greene – UC Santa Barbara Mario Storti – Saint Mary's Masi Koi – California Mateo Berenger – Arizona Mathew Abbes – Saint Mary's Max Smith – Navy Max Threlkeld – California Michael Kalalau – Navy Michael Strehle – Navy Miles Bell – Michigan State Nahuel Wingord – Life University Nate Deegan – Saint Mary's Nate Gould – Army Nico Domine – Cal Poly Oliver Kirk – California Ollie Cline – Saint Mary's Onika Sethosa – Arkansas State Oscar Treacy – Central Washington Padric Casey – Cal Poly Philani Simamane – Life University Rand Santos – California Roanin Kreiger – Navy Ryan Wenstrom – California Sam Masterson – Colorado State Sam McMillan – UCLA Samson Brown – Claremont Colleges Saul Pitout – Davenport  Seamus Deely – California Sebastian Shefferman – Mary Washington Seth Kramlich – Life University Shaun Mathyssen – Life University Siale Ofa – Saint Mary's Solomon Williams – California Sosia Pongi – Saint Mary's Takunda Makiwa – Davenport  Tanner Russel – Navy Tevita Mapa – Life University Tiai Vavao – Central Washington Tobey Barnfield Lee – Mary Washington Tristan Hubsch – Life University Warrick Day – Arkansas State  Welton Charumbira – St. Thomas University Will Lindsay – Mary Washington Will Sherman – UCLA William Webb – Navy Wyatt Parry – BYU

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