{"id":2970,"date":"2012-05-28T10:05:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T15:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/texasrugbyunion.com\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2015-08-19T19:05:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T19:05:35","slug":"tola-sevens-announcement-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texasrugbyref.com\/2012\/05\/28\/tola-sevens-announcement-important\/","title":{"rendered":"TOLA Sevens Announcement – Important"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOLA Sevens Announcement:<\/p>\n

The creation of the TOLA Sevens Series has grown from infancy to a highly desired competition over the past several years. \u00a0 \u00a0As this competition continues to grow and evolve alongside the increased focus on the Seven-a-side variation of Rugby, the time has come to formally merge the TRU and TOLA. Under this partnership, the TOLA structure will be used as the foundation upon which the TRU 7’s series will be based. <\/em><\/p>\n

This merger will begin taking place during competition this Summer and will be complete by next year\u2019s sevens season. The competition merger committee will be formed by Filip Keuppens who, in addition to being an original founder of the TOLA Series and current chairperson, has been very active in sevens as a player, coach and referee for many years at many levels. Filip and myself will enlist other TOLA and TRU officials and other key personnel to ensure that key operational items\u00a0are employed and proper goals and objectives are upheld.<\/em><\/p>\n

As with any competition there are growing pains that come with along with these successes.\u00a0 As the number of Tournaments increase from year to year and Clubs desiring to be Hosts increases at an equally high pace, there comes a time when there are simply not enough dates or resources to support all of these great events.<\/p>\n

Part of the fundamentals that will be considered, weighed and resolved are:<\/p>\n