( JTA ) — When Sarah Levy arrived at Northeastern University in the fall of 2014, the San Diego native felt an impulse common to incoming college students: “Oh, let’s fill up my whole schedule, I’m completely free,” she recalled thinking. Levy, who played soccer as a child, turned to sports and signed up for rugby, the first women’s team on campus with tryouts. Levy was drawn to the idea of joining a team, and after her first rugby match, she was immediately hooked. “After that first game, it was done — I couldn’t not play,” Levy told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “I just fell in love with it right away. My dad had played growing up, so I always had a draw to it. But I didn’t know women could play until I got to college and there was a team there.” The sport runs deep in Levy’s family. She was born in Cape Town, South Africa, the great-granddaughter of South African rugby star Louis Babrow, who famously weighed whether to play a match in New Zealand on Yom Kippur in 1937 — ultimat...
