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In her junior year at LaSalle University, Baltimore resident Jillian Szczepaniak-Gillece started a women’s rugby team. The reason? “We were bored, and we wanted to hit people,” she recalled, laughing.

Few outside the United States gave the team much of a chance. The U.S. is not a traditional rugby union nation and the squad had barely trained together ahead of the inaugural Women’s Rugby World Cup.