{"id":807012,"date":"2020-05-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=382537"},"modified":"2020-05-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:00:00","slug":"summit-rugby-alum-cassidy-bargell-up-for-college-womens-rugby-heisman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-rugby-alum-cassidy-bargell-up-for-college-womens-rugby-heisman\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit rugby alum Cassidy Bargell up for college women\u2019s rugby \u2018Heisman\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Bargell-SDN-050120-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Bargell-SDN-050120-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Bargell-SDN-050120-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Bargell-SDN-050120-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Bargell-SDN-050120-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Bargell-SDN-050120-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Summit High School Tigers rugby alum and Harvard star Cassidy Bargell possesses the ball during the Ivy League Championship versus Dartmouth on Oct. 26, 2019.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy Winslow Townson<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>DILLON \u2014 The past few months have been a mixed bag of positive and not-so-positive for Cassidy Bargell, one of the greatest players in Summit High School Tigers rugby history. But the fierce competitor is trying to make the best of it during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The sophomore Harvard Crimson scrumhalf learned a couple of weeks back that she is one of just a few finalists for the Sorensen Award, the women\u2019s college rugby equivalent of the Heisman Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>For Bargell, it was a silver-lining she said surprised her after she returned to her family\u2019s home in Wildernest on March 15 after Harvard announced the cancellation of on-campus classes due to the novel coronavirus. In turn, the pandemic also meant the cancellation of the spring rugby sevens season for the proud Crimson program that was coming off a rugby 15s national championship on home soil in the fall when they avenged an early-season loss to the U.S. Military Academy.<\/p>\n<p>Bargell is joined as a finalist for the Sorensen Award \u2014 which has an undetermined announcement date for the winner \u2014 by her Crimson teammate Brogan Mior and other elite young rugby stars she\u2019s played with and against in the past. That includes one of her good friends, Spiff Sedrick of Life University.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row sd-donation sd-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cKnowing how good they all are makes it an even bigger honor,\u201d Bargell said. \u201cAnd the fact that we had me and Brogan both nominated, it spoke about how much our (Harvard) team grew this year. We both play more decision-making positions. They are, like, less of the flashy positions. We might not score as much, and I think it highlights Harvard\u2019s ability to make decisions this year and be strategic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it was Sedrick who Bargell played with in her final rugby action before the COVID-19 shutdown, in late February and early March when their side \u2014 the USA Falcons, a national development team \u2014 won the esteemed Los Angeles Invitational, an open competition featuring some of the best women\u2019s rugby players in the world.<\/p>\n<p>When Bargell returned from California to begin training with the Crimson in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard was one of the first college athletics departments to announce spring cancellations due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The cancellation of the spring season meant a few things. In terms of the Sorsensen Award, it meant nominations would include only accomplishments from the fall rugby 15s season, in turn meaning nominations were bumped up as the spring sevens season couldn\u2019t be factored in. It also meant Bargell would finish her sophomore year of school, with a focus on studying biology, remotely at home in Summit County. As for athletics, it meant she, as a member of the Harvard team\u2019s leadership group, would have to get creative to keep the Crimson team in tip-top athletic and psychological shape with an eye on returning to the pitch next fall.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, as Bargell completes her spring semester final assignments and exams this week, the star scrumhalf said the university hasn\u2019t said much about if and when student-athletes will be able to return and what sports will look like then.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/figure>\n<p>Luckily, Bargell said, her rugby coaches at Harvard have made remote training possible. The team trains together on Zoom via what Bargell described as a \u201cmassive support system.\u201d Bargell considers herself lucky to be able to conduct such things as captain-organized body-weight workouts a few times a week with her teammates while listening to music. The team also does conditioning sets depending on what each individual athlete has at home. For Bargell, that means trail run loops and hill sprints on the Mesa Cortina trails near her home. And, the sophomore said, the team also conducts weekly Zoom meetings for an hour-and-a-half to look at 15s film to prep for next fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leadership group, we had meetings with coaches to decide the best thing, and we think the team works best when holding each other accountable,\u201d Bargell said. \u201cThe goal is to not push anyone beyond what they are capable of doing, but we know we function best as students and athletes when exercising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bargell said she\u2019s also grateful for the assignments she and teammates receive each week from a Harvard sports psychology coach in Google Classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking ahead to next fall, though the Crimson are prepping as if the season will happen as normal, Bargell said she does understand a cancellation of the autumn 15s season could happen. In that case, she\u2019s trying to put the situation into perspective by realizing she is lucky as a rugby player to have two seasons, something most other sports don\u2019t enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially studying biology, with professors in STEM, I know it\u2019s not unrealistic of the possibility of another online semester,\u201d Bargell said. \u201cBut we are also not worrying about it until we get there. The university may release something around July, so we have awhile. And because we have two rugby seasons, even if we go back to campus in 2021, we know we will be playing some sort of competitive rugby season and the seniors will have a chance for one last rugby season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/summit-rugby-alum-cassidy-bargell-up-for-college-womens-rugby-heisman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summit High School Tigers rugby alum and Harvard star Cassidy Bargell possesses the ball during the Ivy League Championship versus Dartmouth on Oct. 26, 2019.Courtesy Winslow Townson DILLON \u2014 The past few months have been a mixed bag of positive and not-so-positive for Cassidy Bargell, one of the greatest players in Summit High School Tigers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 08:59:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}