The 2025 Collegiate Rugby Championship Hall of Fame Class features five national team players, an Olympic captain, two who started their intercollegiate athletic careers in other sports, the first-ever Hall of Fame coach, and a combined seven CRC titles.
The Hall’s second-ever class will be inducted live at the 15th annual CRC, Saturday April 26, 2025 at the Maryland Soccerplex in Boyds, MD. The induction ceremony and speeches will take place in a break in the action inside the stadium between the women’s opening rounds and the men’s national championship matches.
Two-time Olympian Kevon Williams is the first Division III player to be inducted into the CRC Hall of Fame. He picked up a rugby ball for the first time in 2013, a semester after hanging up his cleats as a wide receiver for New Mexico Highlands’ D2 football team. A year later he led NMHU’s rugby team to a runner-up finish at the 2014 CRC, claiming back-to-back DIII titles with the Vatos in 2014 and 2015.
Like Williams, Nicole Strasko started college playing a mainstream sport, setting rebounding records on the hardcourt at Central College in Pella, IA. She found rugby in grad school at Life University, captaining the Running Eagles to their first CRC title in 2018.
Strasko won the 2022 Premier Rugby 7s Women’s Championship with the Headliners, ending the first-ever season of professional women’s rugby in America as a champion. Right alongside fellow 2025 inductee Annakaren Pedraza, the first Lindenwood Lion enshrined in the Hall of Fame, having led the program to its first championship in 2018.
Thretton Palamo became the youngest player ever to play in the Rugby World Cup in 2007, three years before leading Utah to the first-ever CRC title as a freshman. He parlayed the nationally-televised performance into a football scholarship with the Utes, and returned to rugby upon graduation to play professionally in England, Wales, France and the United States.
Alex Magleby is the first coach to be inducted into the Hall, springboarding back-to-back titles with Dartmouth in 2011 and 2012 to the positions of head coach and general manager of the United States national teams. Under his guidance as CEO, the New England Free Jacks are two-time reigning Major League Rugby champions.
The 2025 inductees follow in the footsteps of the inaugural class; KB Slaughter (Life), Meya Bizer (Penn State), Nate Ebner (Ohio State), Rocco Mauer (Bowling Green), and CRC founders Jon and Patti Prusmack.
2025 Inductees
