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Alexander Magleby (born February 19, 1978) is the CEO of the professional rugby union team, The New England Free Jacks. He is a former professional
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coach, and former
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national team player and captain.


Early life and education

Magleby played for high school rugby coach Larry Gelwix at Highland High School from 1993 to 1996. The movie ''
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'' (2008) was inspired by coach Gelwix and his team's history, particularly during the mid-1990s era. Magleby helped the team win national championships in 1994, 1995, and 1996, and was the team's Most Valuable Player (Forward) his senior season. Magleby was the first Highland Rugby alumnus to play both 15s and 7s for US Eagles national team. While at Highland High School Magleby served as Student-Body President, was co-captain of the
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team, and was
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alumnus, Magleby was captain his senior year (1999–2000). He started at flanker all four years helping lead the Big Green to Ivy League Championships in 1998, 1999, and 2000 under long-term
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head coach, Wayne Young.


Playing career

Magleby was selected to the US national rugby sevens team his senior year of
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, subsequently starting at hooker from 2000 to 2005, and captaining the Eagles to the
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. He also appeared for the US Eagles 15s on eight occasions garnering four test match caps from 2000 to 2001. While playing for the United States, Magleby served on the USA Rugby Board of Directors Executive Committee as the international athlete representative.


Coaching career

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alumnus, and former
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captain, he coached his alma-mater and the
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powerhouse from 2001 to 2012, leading the program to eight Ivy League Championships in that time and a five-year Ivy Rugby undefeated record. Under his tutelage the Dartmouth's Sevens team won the USA Sevens national
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in 2011 and 2012. Magleby was the head coach of the US national rugby sevens team for the last portion of the 2012
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, the 2013
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, and the 2013 IRB
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in Moscow. He took over for former coach
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in March 2012 as the first ever full-time daily training environment and residency program was established for men and women USA Rugby sevens players in Chula Vista, CA. Magleby announced his retirement in June 2013 to return to his consulting business. He soon thereafter became the Technical Advisor to
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. In his short 16-month tenure, Magleby led the US team from a 14th place one-win nine-loss streak, to by his last three tournaments, a top-five iRB Sevens World Series point collection. The 2012–13 season was marked as the most number of Cup finishes by a USA team up to that point, with Cup qualification in five of the nine tournaments, including two Plate championship wins, the team's first ever in the 16-team tournament format. The 2012–13 USA team crucially finished one place ahead of rival Canada in 11th place, and proved by the end of Magleby's tenure to be able to best the world's traditional 7s powers with first-ever wins over South Africa and multiple playoff wins over Fiji. As of the end of 2013 the US national rugby sevens team had never beaten the All Black Sevens team, although Magleby's teams dropped the average point differential from 34.0 during the previous coach's tenure to 9.5 during 2012–13
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. "Alex Magleby who has just completed his first full season has seen his side finish the season so strongly that commentators are thinking they might be an outside bet for
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Moscow." Prior to coaching the US national rugby sevens team, Magleby was the head coach of the Men's Collegiate All-Americans – the elite university-level developmental program in the US from 2009 to 2011. He led the All-Americans to a 2–1 record over the New Zealand Universities in a three-match series in 2011.Magleby also coached the first-ever Men's Collegiate All-Americans Sevens team in 2011, a program designed to help prepare athletes for the senior men's team and the Olympics. Players that were introduced to international
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under Magleby's coaching tenure include Brett Thompson, Mike Teo, Jack Halalilo,
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, Luke Hume, and
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. Notably Isles was a 100-meter sprinter who Magleby transitioned into rugby over the summer of 2012, by placing Isles at the Gentlemen of Aspen RFC under the tutelage of national team manager Andy Katoa. Three weeks after Isles first picked up a rugby ball, Magleby took him on development tour to Canada with famed touring side Atlantis. Following the tour Magleby signed Isles to a one-year contract at the
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. As coach of the All-Americans, Magleby worked with and played a role in selecting and developing several current Eagles and international pros including Hayden Smith, Kevin Swiryn,
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,
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, Rocco Mauer, Seamus Kelly, Ahmad Harajly, and Shaun Davies. While working with Dartmouth, Magleby has mentored Team USA Olympic rugby captain
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, as well as Major League Rugby players Nate Brakeley, Steve Dazzo, Oliver Engelhart, Stephen Hinshaw, and Mason Koch.


Management career

In February 2014 Magleby returned to USA Rugby as the National Development Director for Sevens. In 2015 Magleby was named the USA Rugby Performance Director. This role evolved in 2016 to become General Manager for National Teams and High Performance. Magleby led the US rugby delegation and teams at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Initiatives established during Magleby's tenure include the Elite City 7s, the first US rugby team to compete in the Youth Olympic Games, both the Men's and Women's Olympic Development Academy system, the first Men's and Women's Falcons Sevens development programs, The USA Rugby HiPer database, the first Girls High School All-American program, the first Women's Collegiate All-American Sevens team, USA Rugby National Tracking and Olympic Recruitment Camps, The Eagle Files, Project SOAR, the USA Rugby Performance Game Board, the first full-time General Manager of Women's High Performance, the first full-time Women's Eagles Head Coach, the CARE program in support of holistic athlete welfare, and co-founding the Golden Eagles—the philanthropic arm of the USA Men's and Women's Sevens. National teams performances were collective historic bests with a first ever Men's Eagles test win over a tier-1 playing nation, Men's Eagles qualifying for Rugby World Cup as the Rugby Americas #1 seed for first time in history, and a historic best 13th World Rugby ranking; Women's Eagles 4th at Rugby World Cup, and the beginning half of historic best 2nd overall World Series finishes for the Men's and Women's Sevens teams.


Entrepreneurship

Magleby co-founded Sylvan Advantage LLC in 2004. In 2014 Magleby founded US Collegiate Development to better foster relationships between student-athletes and collegiate coaches.


See also

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United States national rugby sevens team The United States national rugby sevens team competes in international rugby sevens competitions. The national sevens team is organized by USA Rugby, and was led by Head Coach Mike Friday from 2014-2024, when he resigned and was replaced b ...
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IRB Sevens World Series The SVNS, known as the HSBC SVNS for sponsorship reasons, is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams. Organised for the first time in the 1999–2000 season as the IRB World ...
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Collegiate Rugby Championship The Collegiate Rugby Championship (CRC) is an annual college rugby sevens tournament. The CRC capitalized on the surge in popularity of rugby at major universities following the 2009 announcement of the addition of rugby sevens to the Summer Olymp ...
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Dartmouth Big Green The Dartmouth College Big Green are the varsity and club College athletics in the United States, athletic teams representing Dartmouth College, an American university located in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dartmouth's teams compete at the National ...
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New England Free Jacks The New England Free Jacks are an American professional rugby union team based in the Greater Boston area that competes in Major League Rugby (MLR). They were announced in September 2018 and began to compete professionally in October 2018. They co ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Magleby, Alexander Living people American rugby union coaches 1978 births United States international rugby sevens players United States national rugby sevens team coaches New England Free Jacks United States international rugby union players Rugby union flankers Sportspeople from Salt Lake City Rugby union players from Utah Gentlemen of Aspen RFC players
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