UCLA Women's Rugby players
Mikaela Hassenzahl and
Sydney Benedict are currently spending the summer improving their rugby skills at the Santa Barbara Rugby Academy. The national development camp is coached by USA Rugby's Kevin Battle, and is captained by UCLA alumnae Kelly Griffin. Their grueling training schedule includes 6:15 AM practices four days a week, strength and conditioning sessions twice a week and tournaments on the weekends.
When asked for a comment about the early practices, Mikaela said "Yeah it's pretty early," and that Syd naps for the rest of the day; meanwhile Syd just didn't answer my text because she's too busy yelling at the screen while she watches Netflix.Â
Anyways they're gonna be super great rugby players by the end of the summer yay go ruggyÂ
