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In rugby, USA top of the pile at Maccabiah

ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5778 SECTION A PAGE 12 he first heard from a teammate that there was an international rugby team composed exclusively of Jewish players, Zach Strom “thought it would be easy” to make the team. It took him years. “It has been a long process,” acknowledged the Denver athlete, who last year finally earned a position on the team that formally calls itself Maccabi USA Open Men’s Rugby, and which participated in this summer’s Maccabiah Games in Israel. Strom first tried out for the team in 2013, having already played rugby for Cherry Creek High School, Mesa State College and the Raptors, the amateur (soon to be professional) rugby club based in Glendale. Unfortunately, he fractured his heel just before tryouts that year, […]
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