The Denver Harlequins Rugby Football Club is proud to announce Angus Peacock as our new head coach, starting this spring 2015 season. He is a Level 3 certified coach, and a certified coaching instructor who will be teaching other coaches in the USA how to coach. Coach Peacock started playing rugby at the tender age of seven, like many kids in the UK. Coach Peacock attended and played rugby at the University of Westminster in London. After earning his degree, he made the long journey to China for work. While living there, he saw a need for a rugby team in Shanghai and re-formed the Shanghai Rugby Football Club (the Hairy Crabs), which hadn’t been active since 1950. Coach Peacock served as Director of Coaching and Operations Director of Sport for All, providing structured multi-sports coaching and sporting activities for more than 3,000 children in need each week. His contributions to rugby in Asia have garnered praised from the upper echelons of the International Rugby Board (IRB). Coach Peacock and his wife, Marissa Pommer, decided to move to the United States (where she is from). After moving to the US, he helped coach University of New Mexico and founded Black Dragon Rugby (an elite, high performance rugby academy, similar to Tiger Rugby). The job prospects in Albuquerque being what they are, he decided to seek out greener pastures. This lead to him re-joining Jimmy Kunsman, one of the Harlequins’ assistant coaches and a former assistant coach with the Shanghai Hairy Crabs, in Denver. We warmly welcome Coach Peacock into the Harlequin family and have great hopes for the future of our beloved club. For more on our new coach check out: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachangus http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/blog/this-week-in-shanghai-sports-13/ -- Aaron C. Bennett acbenett@umich.edu