Ray Green

Played prop, fly-half and centre for Towson Rugby and served as match secretary.

Career contextRay Green playing for Towson, 1990–1992 eraView archive ↗

Captained the Potomac Rugby Union U21 France tour. Selected for the Eastern Collegiate All-Stars in 1992 and Pacific Coast Collegiate All-Stars in 1994; Collegiate All-American in both 1992 and 1994.

Played centre for Cal Rugby in Berkeley and served as a team captain.

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Member of Cal’s three consecutive collegiate national-championship teams; co-captain in 1995.

Ranked No. 6 for Cal’s Male Athlete of the Year recognition.

Represented the USA Eagles in fifteens, earning eleven caps.

Made his Eagles XV debut against Ireland at Lansdowne Road, Dublin. Eagle number 236; 11 senior XV appearances.

Shared Cal’s No. 1 Male Athlete of the Year recognition with four fellow rugby captains.

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Played for Otorohanga Rugby and the King Country sub-union, and represented King Country in New Zealand’s National Provincial Championship.

Played for OMBAC in San Diego and served as team captain; a member of the 1996 Division I national-championship team.

Held one of the first professional contracts in U.S. rugby, alongside his international playing career.

Represented the USA Eagles sevens team, earning four caps.

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Member of Otorohanga’s King Country Sub-Division championship team.

Toured Fiji with Atlantis sevens. Founder Emil Signes’s published roll identifies him as Atlantis player 277.

Selected at centre for the USA’s first test against Fiji, returning for his first appearance of the 1998 season. The national-team release pairs him with Juan Grobler in midfield.

Started at centre against Argentina in Buenos Aires during World Cup qualifying, independently recorded in the Argentine union’s 1998 annual report.

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Named among the centres in Jack Clark’s 57-player USA pool for the 1999 season.

Author of When I Was Great, a short book reflecting on his rugby journey and mid-life experiences.

Named in the Classic Eagles squad for Bermuda’s 2010 World Rugby Classic.

Twelve years of youth rugby coaching. Earlier Foundation records also describe his work with the Coastal Dragons in Encinitas.

Inducted into the Towson Rugby Hall of Fame as a member of its 2025 class.

Chair of the US Rugby Foundation Youth Development Committee, including work with the Kevin Higgins Scholarship.

Board director for the US Rugby Foundation and OMBAC Rugby; six years of board service recorded in his supplied résumé.

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Assistant coach with Oceanside High School rugby and Thunder Rugby U18.

Owner of rugby apps, rugby.net and usrugby.com.

Ranked No. 20 in Cal on SI’s countdown of the Top 50 Transfer Athletes across Cal sports.