College

Fourteen players were selected across three rounds of the 2026 MLR College Draft on Thursday, August 27, and Life University was the only school in the country with two of them. Ballinger, a flanker, went first overall to Old Glory DC. Tristan Hubsch, a lock, was taken twelfth by the Seattle Seawolves in round three. Full results are on Major League Rugby's site.

For anyone watching college rugby in Georgia, that is the sharpest possible proof of where it can lead: from a campus pitch in Marietta to a first-overall professional call.