Kathy Flores

Past coaching tenures include Bay Area Touring Side (BATS) Rugby Club, the SF FOG men and the Berkeley All Blues.

She began coaching the women's rugby team at Brown University in the fall of 2013, following the retirement of Kerri Heffernan.

[1][2] She attended Monmouth Regional High School in New Jersey, where she played field hockey, basketball and ran track.

She attended East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania and won the javelin throw event at the Eastern Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women in 1976 and 1977.

While attending Florida State University, Flores was drawn to the women's rugby team based on her past experience as a basketball and track athlete.

[7][8][9][10] In 1994, Flores moved to the San Francisco Bay Area with Jen Crawford, her National Team teammate and partner at the time, where she started playing and coaching for the Berkeley All Blues.

[11] Beginning in 1985, Flores toured throughout England and France as a captain of the first unofficial U.S. national team, known as WIVERN (Women's International Vagabonds, Emissaries, and Rugby Nomads).

[1] In 2000, Flores was appointed as the Development Officer for the Women's National Team, and from 2002 to 2010, she served as the head coach.