If you've been to Farrer Park behind the KK Women's & Children's Hospital on any given Sunday and seen a bunch of girls running around with odd shaped balls (no pun intended), that's us. Some think we're off our rockers but really, we're just ... off our rockers ... and doing what we love.

The women's wing of Blacks Rugby Football Club was founded in 1996. Drawn largely from a touch rugby background, the Blacks Women's team first started training touch rugby. As their passion and numbers grew, the gutsy women's team participated in their first international contact rugby tournament - the Hat Yai International Sevens in 1997 and brought back the Championships against Thailand and Hong Kong. The rest, as they say, is history.

A melting pot of working adults and students from secondary schools and tertiary institutions, the women's wing now comprises players whose ages range from 16 to 35. Notwithstanding the incongruence of the circumstances from which they have come, the ladies have been united by their common passion and their unquenchable thirst for the game.

Contact

Since their humble foray into the contact rugby scene, the women's wing's commitment to the sport has made them a veritable driving force for the development of women's contact rugby in Singapore. Dominating the local contact scene since 1998, the Blacks Women's wing have remained the undefeated champions of the Singapore Rugby Union's National Rugby Championship 7s since the inception of the women's league four years ago. In the region, the girls have proven to be a force to be reckoned with - read on.

Touch

In 2003, the Blacks girls beat hot contenders Singapore Recreation Club and Lion Red for the NRC, Father Flanagan's Touch League Championship title. With a strong programme and big plans for 2006, the touch side will be looking to stage some upsets in this year's Summer Touch and the National Touch League.