US EditionPro rugby finds a friendly scrum in Minnesota’s fast-growing women’s sports market
- Marisa Hall, a 27-year-old local player, returned to Minnesota in spring 2025 to play for TC Gemini in the new Women's Elite Rugby league.
- The league launched amid growing national interest in women's rugby after Team USA won bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympics, fueling momentum especially in Minnesota.
- Hall, an advocate for rugby, plays before large home crowds unlike her high school days without spectators, feeling challenged mentally and physically by the sport.
- Teammate Kathryn 'KJ' Johnson highlighted the league's goal to provide for fans and keep them engaged, describing playing rugby while expressing identity publicly as "really hard and really awesome."
- The rise of women's professional rugby aligns with a broader surge in women's sports in the Twin Cities, drawing new fans like Jesse Hyman and inspiring young girls to play rough and tough sports.
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Pro rugby finds a friendly scrum in Minnesota’s fast-growing women’s sports market
Volleyball and track drove Marisa Hall as a student-athlete at Park High School in Cottage Grove. But then she found rugby — a game that matched her competitive nature and her toughness. She was hooked. Playing matches in the Twin Cities, she caught the attention of Lindenwood University in Missouri, one of the country’s top women’s college rugby programs. Hall played on championship teams at Lindenwood and then Scion Rugby, a Washington, D.C.-b…
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