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Travis Hegasi first joined the Philadelphia Rugby Football Club in the spring of 2000. There were barely enough people to make a team.
Fifteen players on the field, and three subs, all locked in to support one another in a sport whose intensity, she says, can forge lifelong bonds.
“We went to battle, 18 of us,” the now 50-year-old veteran of the sport recalled on an early fall evening in Philadelphia’s Harrowgate neighborhood.
Now a coach with the gender-inclusive club, the third-oldest historically women’s rugby club in the United States, Hegasi looks out on a completely different scene.
