Maryland Exiles

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Maryland Exiles
Full nameMaryland Exiles Rugby Club
Union USA Rugby
Founded1993
Disbanded2014 (merger into the Potomac Exiles)
Location Bethesda, Maryland, US
Official website
www.potomacexilesrugbyclub.com?page_id=148

The Maryland Exiles were an American rugby union team in Bethesda, Maryland which competed as a member of Division I under the USA Rugby governing body. The team fielded both a standard 15-man squad and seven-a-side squad. The team competed abroad in England, Sri Lanka, and the Cayman Islands. [1] The Maryland Exiles have been featured in The Washington Post , [2] The Virginian-Pilot , [3] International Rugby News, [4] and on the cover of Rugby Magazine. [5] [6]

The Exiles were formed in 1993 by the amalgamation of three local area clubs: the Maryland Old Boys, Montgomery County Rugby Club, and the Old Red Rugby Club. The fifteens squad placed third in the Aspen Ruggerfest, the United States' premier fifteen-man tournament, in 1996. In 1996, 1997, and 2007, the Exiles advanced to the Sweet Sixteen round of the National Club Championship. [1] In United States' National Club Sevens Championship, the Exiles have placed second (1994 and 2002) and third (2003, 2005, and 2006). The Maryland Old Boys, from which the Exiles were partially formed, won the National Club Sevens in 1989, placed third in 1991 and 1992, and placed third in 1988 and 1990. [7] [8]

In the fall of 2014, the Maryland Exiles merged with the Potomac Athletic Club, forming the Potomac Exiles.

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References

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