Late Brown coach Kathy Flores to be inducted into World Rugby Hall of Fame
Kathy Flores, the late Brown University women's rugby coach, will be inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in Auckland, New Zealand on Nov. 5.
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Flores, who was a 2016 U.S. Rugby Hall of Fame inductee, died in October 2021 at the age of 66. She coached the Bears when it was a club program in 2013, and guided it through the transition to a Division I program in 2014. In her first varsity season at the school, Flores was named the 2014 USA Rugby Female Coach of the Year after a 9-1 overall record and perfect 7-0 mark in Ivy play. In 2015, the Bears competed for the Ivy Championship, falling to Dartmouth.
Before her coaching days, Flores captained the USA team in 1987 and played in two World Cups, winning the inaugural women’s edition in 1991.
In announcing the news on its website, the rugby hall describes its mission this way: "The World Rugby Hall of Fame presented by TUDOR recognises those who have made an outstanding contribution to the game of rugby throughout their careers, while also demonstrating rugby’s character-building values of integrity, passion, solidarity, discipline and respect."
Other November inductees include Deborah Griffin (England), Sue Dorrington (England), Alice D. Cooper (England), Mary Forsyth (England) and Fiao’o Fa’amausili (New Zealand).
This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Kathy Flores, the late Brown women's rugby coach, gets hall of fame nod
