Nigel Melville: Bringing My Passion For Rugby To America

Former England rugby captain and current CEO of USA Rugby, Nigel Melville, spoke to The Daily Telegraph about how he has carved out a happy niche introducing the game to Americans after a rocky start to life in Boulder, Colorado. I arrived in Boulder, Colorado in January 2007 as CEO and president of rugby operations for USA Rugby, with a big challenge ahead of me. My task was the raise the profile of a sport that has a history in America few knew about. Colleges played it here in the late 1800s. Traditionally it was an expat sport, strong on the east coast thanks to the European influence and …