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29 Sept 2026The Slugs went to New ZealandThis summer, forty UCSC Rugby players, men and women, got on a plane with their coaches and flew to New Zealand. The destination was the Waikato. The reason was simple: to train at the Inside Running academy, in a country that takes rugby more seriously than almost anywhere on earth.

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