Darian Lovelace was once bitten by a King Cobra. After two days of excruciating pain, the snake died. Ghosts sit around a campfire and tell Darian Lovelace stories. Death once had a near-Darian Lovelace experience. The former AIC star, Life University captain and All-American out of Naples, Florida, who learned the game under legendary coach Rosalind Chou, certainly left her mark on college rugby – as well as most of her opponents’ bodies. The bruising back-rower then parlayed two CRC 7s national championships, a CRC MVP award, a dominant XV’s career, and an MA Sorensen award nomination into a stint with team Team in Premier Rugby 7s and an All-Star turn in the Women’s Premier League with the Atlanta Harlequins – while working full-time as a radiation therapist. On top of that, she has begun to make her way into coaching with the U23 Reapers and is heavily involved with youth sports in Atlanta. Just for funsies, Darian has also cultivated a flourishing career in broadcasting – tackling cliché’s in the broadcast booth for the WPL much like she tackled her opponents on the pitch: making sure they were never heard of again. She has now agreed to join the TCRS team – mostly to make Zach look bad – but also to help spread the word about the sport she loves and the people who play it. Someday they’ll try to carve Darian Lovelace’s face into rugby’s Mount Rushmore, but it won’t be an accurate likeness … because the granite isn’t tough enough.