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Overview
This week on the With You! Rugby Podcast, the President of the United States Rugby Foundation, Brian Vizard, spoke with Bob Latham, a former Stanford Cardinal, Dallas Harlequins, two-time chairman of USA Rugby, Member of World Rugby‘s executive board, and 2023 US Rugby Hall of Fame inductee about his career, personal experiences and more. Growing up outside of Chicago, Latham began his sports career with vigor playing year-round. Starting his early years with tennis, baseball, hockey, and wrestling, Latham was a seasoned athlete when he entered Stanford University. At Stanford, Latham attended an overseas program that, through chance, contained a large portion of Stanford rugby players who quickly introduced him to the sport. Learn more about Bob Latham's career, his life after the sport, and more in this episode of With You! Rugby Podcast.
Show Notes
1:14Tell us a little bit about your upbringing, what sports? Did you play? And where did you grow up?
1:55 You go to Stanford after high school, where you get introduced to the sport of Rugby. How did you first get introduced to the sport there?
2:40 What positions did you play for the Cardinal?
2:52Did you prefer one of the other?
3:12Describe your strengths and weaknesses as a player.
3:53After Stanford, you attended law school, at the University of Virginia, and also played rugby, there, what were you sending your fondest memories of playing for UVA?
4:45After law school, you end up in Texas, you hook up with the Dallas Harlequins. Why the Quinns? And how long did you play for that?
5:37You served as president of the Quinns during their heyday in the eighties. Was that your start in rugby administration?
6:27how does one go from president of the Harlequins to being on World Rugby's Executive Board?
8:27Let's talk about the United States Olympic Committee, which granted membership to USA Rugby. Tell us how that process played out and how rugby was admitted in the Olympics in 2016.
12:32 Looking back on your career, was it difficult juggling a law career with a rugby career?
14:07Right now of all your rugby memories Bob, is there one that stands out above the rest?
14:37Looking back on your career, what are you most proud of?
15:04What does it mean to you, to be selected as a US Rugby Hall of Fame inductee?
Wrap Up
In this episode of the With You! Rugby Podcast, we heard from Bob Latham about his experience with the Rugby world, the difficulties of balancing a work career with an athletics career, the highs of his career and his lows. Come support Bob and the rest of the 2023 Hall of Fame Inductees this September 16, 2023.
