The Potomac Athletic Club Rugby Team (PAC Rugby) of
Washington, D.C.
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was a
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...
club based in Washington, D.C. PAC was one of the founding members of the now-defunct
Super League
The Super League (officially known as the Betfred Super League due to sponsorship from Betfred and legally known as Super League Europe), is the top-level of the British rugby league system. At present the league consists of twelve teams, of wh ...
. PAC Rugby won the USA Men's Division 1 National Championship in 1995. Multiple PAC Rugby players were selected to play for national, and regional representative sides.
In the fall of 2014, the Potomac Athletic Club merged with the
Maryland Exiles
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 ...
, forming th
Potomac Exiles
The Potomac Athletic Club's legacy continues throug
PAC Youth Rugby
External links
club history at Potomac Exiles' siteSuper LeagueUSA Rugby
References
Rugby clubs established in 1988
Rugby union teams in Washington, D.C.
1988 establishments in Washington, D.C.
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