[00:01] Jon Hinkin opens the episode and introduces this year's Hall of Fame week in Fort Lauderdale, including the induction ceremony and the USA vs. Argentina test match.

[01:22] Jon introduces Hattie Greenwood, the female recipient of the 2026 Prusmack Award, representing Life University.

[02:07] Hattie shares that she grew up in Livermore, Colorado, a small mountain town.

[02:22] Despite the mountain-town upbringing, Hattie says she never skied.

[02:33] She discusses her early sports background: six years of gymnastics followed by track and field before finding rugby in high school.

[03:08] Hattie details her track events — the 100m and 200m sprints, and the 100m and 400m hurdles.

[03:46] She breaks down the timeline: gymnastics from age four through twelve, then track from middle school through senior year of high school.

[04:09] Hattie describes growing up with four wrestling brothers in a highly competitive household, with a father who wrestled in college and a mother who played Division I softball.

[04:52] She recalls backyard sports competitions with her siblings, though she never wrestled them directly.

[06:35] Hattie explains how she first saw rugby through a cousin's high school games and was initially confused and unimpressed by the sport.

[07:05] She recounts being invited to a practice roughly a year later, feeling completely lost on the field at first, and then falling in love with the game once she understood which direction to run.

[07:45] Hattie notes her cousin, who introduced her to rugby, played briefly at the club level for Wyoming but no longer plays.

[08:11] She describes her high school-age club team, the Fort Collins Hammers, a combined squad drawing from several area high schools.

[09:39] Hattie reflects on the bonds formed with teammates through frequent weekend travel for club tournaments, including some memorable travel mishaps.

[10:27] She shares that she originally had no plans to play college rugby — her goal was to open her own coffee shop — until Life University's Richard Chadwick recruited her during her senior year of high school.

[11:07] Hattie calls the decision to play at Life University the best one she's made, describing rugby as an outlet for her faith and her active lifestyle.

[11:47] She admits she entered college with almost no knowledge of the sport's history and had only played sevens before a U20 tour introduced her to fifteens.

[12:37] Hattie compares sevens and fifteens, noting she's grown to appreciate the structure of fifteens but still has more fun playing sevens.

[13:50] She describes her freshman season: a bench role that turned into a starting spot due to injuries, culminating in a national championship played start to finish.

[14:26] Hattie discusses undergoing surgery for a partial labrum tear, hamstring tear, and glute injury after her freshman sevens season, and fighting through it to finish the fifteens season.

[16:34] She explains how her junior year was complicated by a rival program, Lindenwood, moving up to NCAA Division I, disrupting the usual competitive slate — while Life also launched a club/college side for players who'd aged out but wanted to keep playing.

[17:38] Hattie shares that this season brought her third national championship, bringing her career total to four.

[18:05] She discusses finishing her master's degree in December and her remaining eligibility to keep playing at Life.

[18:46] Hattie reveals she has been the sevens team's captain every year of her college career, crediting her long-standing relationship with her coach.

[19:12] She describes her approach to leadership — listening to teammates, leading by example, and working as hard as anyone else on the team.

[19:58] Hattie says she leans toward offense over defense as a player.

[21:01] She lays out her goals for the future: getting picked up by a USA sevens or fifteens program, with an eye toward playing overseas.

[21:19] Hattie confirms she toured with a USA U20 team in Canada.

[21:34] She discusses her positional shift from wing to scrumhalf (the nine) in recent national team camps.

[22:06] Jon and Hattie discuss the 2033 Rugby World Cup, set to be played on U.S. soil, as a long-term goal.

[23:17] Asked to sum up her rugby journey in one word, Hattie answers: resilience.

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