They are a fiercely talented team, a force to be reckoned with and it all happened in a very short amount of time.
On this episode of the Supercast, meet the Herriman High School boys’ rugby team and find out how they have risen to become one of the premier programs in the country. In fact, this year they were competing at the very highest of levels, falling just short of a national championship.


Audio Transcription
Logan Youngblood:
People describe rugby as a hooligans' game played by gentlemen. It's really demanding on the body.
Jeff Wilson:
When I started this program, I heard from those Georgia people, "You can't win national championships and compete at this level at a single school, public school." I take great pleasure in proving people wrong.
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Anthony Godfrey:
Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. They are a fiercely talented team and a force to be reckoned with.
On this episode of the Supercast, meet the Herriman High School Boys Rugby Club Team and find out how they have risen to become one of the premier programs in the country. In fact, this year they were competing at the highest level, falling just short of a national championship.
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Anthony Godfrey:
We're at Herriman High School today talking with three members of the Herriman Rugby Team who just took second in nationals. Introduce yourself and tell us how many years you've been playing rugby.
Logan Youngblood:
I am Logan Youngblood and I've been playing rugby for about nine years.
Ryker Seidel:
I'm Ryker Seidel and this was my seventh year of playing rugby.
Lucky Fishiipeau:
And I'm Lucky Fishiipeau and I've been playing rugby for 12 years.
Anthony Godfrey:
Tell me about the journey to taking second in the nation. When does your season start and how many region and state games did you have to play to qualify?
Ryker Seidel:
So our season starts about the end of February, kind of the beginning of March. We have our first tournament down in St. George. That's more preseason stuff so it's not super effective on our real in-season schedule. But right as we get back from that we start our season and then each Saturday we play a game against other single school teams in Utah. And we pretty much have like I'd say eight weeks of games and then the week following that we go into the playoffs. And then you play two playoff games and then to make it into the finals. But this season we actually lost the first round in playoffs so we just use that as motivation throughout practice before we went to nationals just to really work hard and better ourselves for the national tournament in Oak Heart, Indiana.
Anthony Godfrey:
How many games did you play at the national level? How does that work?
Ryker Seidel:
So we played three games. It's kind of like a single-round elimination. It's pretty much you play your first game and then you advance to the next day. It's a game each day in three days. But yeah, I know it's hard. I've never been so beat up from a tournament before. Games alone actually. But yeah, you just got to keep winning, fight to live another day.
Anthony Godfrey:
You talked about single school teams. Are there some teams that come from multiple schools just so that they can get an adequate number of players to compete?
Logan Youngblood:
Yeah, so actually a lot of the teams in our league this year they were not single schools. They were a bunch of club schools so we have Lane Christian Academy, American Fork and those are like teams full.  All together, I think there's eight teams between those two teams. So there is a Nationals for the club division and that is multi-school.
Anthony Godfrey:
Now rugby is a club sport here but there are other pockets in the nation where you're going to see a lot more...