The San Antonio Rugby Football Club provides a fun and safe environment for your child to learn and play rugby. No experience is necessary. Our trained coaches will teach your child everything he/she needs to know.

San Antonio Rugby Youth program is open to all genders, ages 5 to 18. (USA Rugby separates players by age) Youth Rugby is contact or non-contact depending on the age of your child.

If you or someone you know is interested, please click here, or going to our Join section to fill out a form. Someone from San Antonio Rugby will contact you within 48 hours!

The Four Pillars of San Antonio Rugby Academy:

  1. Discipline- Rugby takes discipline- discipline to do right, make the right decisions, discipline to stay fit, eat right, manage your time… simply put though for our players its knowing when to talk and when to be quiet

  2. Commitment- Rugby takes commitment- commitment to yourself, your team, your family, your education- you have to commit to be present, to do the little things right, commit to sacrifice time and energy to be your best

  3. Fitness- Rugby takes fitness- everyone on the team must be fit, you have to be able to make good decisions when tired and fatigued, everyone has to be able to move around the field to be in the right place and the right time

  4. Opportunity- Rugby is about creating opportunity and taking advantage of it when you have it- like in life you must create your opportunity and take advantage when you have…it will come again- being disciplined, committing to excellence, being fit will allow you to be able to succeed when the opportunity presents itself.

 10 Rules of Rugby for Beginners

  1. No contact above the shoulders

  2. Head low and to the side- cheek to cheek

  3. Must wrap up when tackle is made

  4. No forward balls - knock ons

  5. Out of bounds is a turnover

  6. You cannot play off your feet

  7. No blocking - you must be behind the ball

  8. Ball retention is most important

  9. Must be on side- player with the ball is the line of scrimmage

  10. Must go through the gate- the players body creates the gate

San Antonio Rugby Staff

  • Del Salinas- Program Director

  • Arnal Prasad- Coach, Collegiate Acadedmy

  • Mark Englebrecht- Coach, Collegiate Academy

  • Jay Sanchez- Coach, High School Academy

  • Miguel Jimenez- Coach, High School Academy

  • Rob Pike- Coach, High School Academy

  • Rey Salinas- Coach, Youth Academy

  • Bryant Moore- Coach, Youth Academy