Adam Hughes is the author of This Is Rugby – a book about American rugby culture. He began playing rugby with Blackwater RFC in Lynchburg, Virginia where he played scrum half and served as club president. A poet and teacher, he resides in Bedford, Virginia with his wife, kids, and several pets.
Uniting Through Adversity: How Rugby Can Help Rebuild Communities After Hurricane Helene Life in 2024 America can be exhausting. Wars, elections, disasters—all of these can merge together into one miasma of pain and anger, and it becomes very easy to shut off the parts of our brain that are developed to care. It becomes difficult…
Why Every Rugby Moment Matters: From Personal Triumphs to Lifelong Impact I promise this isn’t a blog about my personal rugby reminiscences—otherwise it would be a very short contribution to the annals of the Rugby Rant. But sometimes the best place to start is with personal experience.I have not been a very good rugby player.…
Why Rugby Matters: A Personal Journey of Transformation and Community About eight years ago, I embarked on an adventure. I’ve written pretty extensively about this elsewhere, so I won’t bore anyone with the details again here. But the scrum half-sized version is this—I was a chronically skinny avoider of all things difficult who decided in…