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American rugby union team
Rugby team
Belmont Shore Rugby Club
is an American
rugby union
team named after the
Belmont Shore
neighborhood of
Long Beach, California
, which has a tradition of amateur rugby.
History
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The Belmont Shore team was founded in 1974, and was one of the original
US Rugby Super League
teams in 1997. The team has been in the Super League Finals in seven of the past ten championships. They have been league champions four times, most recently in 2007. They were runners-up to the
New York Athletic Club
team in 2005, and to the
San Diego
-based
Old Mission Beach Athletic Club
team in 2006.
Belmont Shore dropped out of the Rugby Super League in October, 2009.
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In 2014 it joined the Pacific Rugby Premiership.
Club honours
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- Rugby Super League
Champions: 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007
- Rugby Super League
Runner-up: 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008
- US Men's Division I National Championship Runner-up: (15's) 2010
- US Men's 7s National Champions: 2009
- US Men's 7s National Runner-Up: 2008, 2010
- US Men's 7s National Champions: 2011
- US Men's 7s National Champions: 2012
- US Men's Division I National Champions (15's): 2012
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Teams
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Belmont Shore features adult and youth divisions. The adult division competes in the Pacific Rugby Premiership & Division I; the youth division features many teams - U-8 through U19.
The
SuperLeague's
primary sponsor is
Michelob Amber Bock
, with each individual team receiving a portion of those revenues. In addition to Amber Bock, Belmont Shore has individual sponsorships. Notable primary sponsors include
CP Ships
and
Dr Pepper
/
7Up
. Also DCL Direct (Direct Container Line) and Kudu Rugby.
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Notable players
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Note: caps and participation are accurate as of 10 August 2006
United States national team
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Other notable players
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- Craig Wells
, centre, Australia U21 - 1990,91, NSW Waratahs - 1991,92 (10 x caps), Australian Wallaby World Cup Training Squad & Australia "B" - 1991, ACT Brumbies Super 12s - 1998,99 (2 x caps), Australian
Classic Wallabies
- 1999, USA Super League National Champion - 2004,07 (Belmont Shore), USA Classic Eagles - 2008
- Lee Peina, halfback,
Northland
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- Joe Taufete'e
- Mike Te'o
Notable coaches
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- Ray Egan
? Head coach of Belmont Shore until his February 2016 appointment with the San Diego
PRO Rugby
team.
Other rugby teams in Long Beach
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Besides Belmont Shore RFC, there is the Belmont Shore Women's Rugby Football Club (nicknamed the "Landsharks", they have two national championships),
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Coast Women's RFC,
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and a men's club team at
Long Beach State
(which has made the National Final Four on four occasions),
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References
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External links
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