GVSU Women's Rugby Club forms bonds for a lifetime

Brodberg said the team has a special dynamic. At practice, players converse and joke between drills. They get on each other about what they all need to do and laugh together when after they are done.

"These are the people who are going to be in my wedding," said Rasbach. "They're going to be my friends for the rest of my life."

Selah Bollinger, a fourth-year medical laboratory science major, joined the team after watching rugby during the Olympics. Bollinger said the team is a tight-knit group.

"I've never played on a team like this where I feel so connected with everybody I play with," she said.

GVSU Women's Rugby plays its final regular-season match of the season at Home against Ball State on October 31.