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Division 1-A Rugby Championship
Tournament details
Countries	United States
Tournament format(s)	knockout
Tournament statistics
Teams	16
Matches played	15
Final
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The 2025 Division 1-A Rugby Championship is the thirteenth season of the Division 1-A Rugby championship, the annual university rugby union competition run by USA Rugby involving the top sixteen college teams in the United States. St. Mary's entered as defending champions beating Navy in the 2024 final 26–22 to secure their fourth championship.

Teams

Sixteen clubs from the six major conferences compete in the 2025 National Championship playoffs.

The distribution of teams is:

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

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Team locations

Standings

Rugby East Pos. Team Record PD BP Pts 1 Navy 6–1 +169 7 31 2 Life 6–1 +252 6 30 3 Army 6–1 +100 6 30 4 Mount St. Mary's 5–2 +49 5 25 5 Queens 5–2 +48 4 24 6 St. Bonaventure 4–3 –1 3 19 7 University of Mary Washington 3–4 +40 5 17 8 Walsh University 2–5 –52 4 12 9 Penn State 2–5 –63 3 11 10 Kutztown 2–5 –65 3 11 11 Belmont Abbey College 1–6 –66 2 6 12 Southern Virginia 0–7 –381 0 0

Big Ten Big Ten East Pos. Team Record PD BP Points 1 Notre Dame 3–0 3 +63 15 2 Ohio State 2–1 +84 4 12 3 Michigan State 1–2 –75 0 4 4 Michigan 0–3 –75 0 3 Big Ten West Pos. Team Record PD BP Points 1 Indiana 3–0 +101 2 14 2 Wisconsin 2–1 +49 2 10 3 Illinois 1–2 +17 2 6 4 Purdue 0–3 –67 0 0

Mid-West Pos. Team Record BP Pts 1 Lindenwood 2 Davenport 3 Adrian 4 McKendree

California Pos. Team Record PD BP Pts 1 Cal Poly 2 Saint Mary's 3 UC Santa Barbara 4 Long Beach 5 UC Davis 6 San Diego State 7 Santa Cruz 6 Santa Clara 9 Sacramento

Independent Team Record PD Central Washington Grand Canyon University

Rocky Mountain Team Record PD BYU

Bracket

Playoffs

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Round 1

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Rudy Scholz Award

Winner

Finalists

Nominations

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2024–2025 First Team All Americans

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References

1. "Gael Force. Saint Mary's Holds Off Navy for D1A Championship". Goff Rugby Report. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
2. "Fall 2024 Standings". Rugby East. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
3. "2024 Fall Standings". Big Ten Rugby. Retrieved 3 January 2025.

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