Cassidy Bargell
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Cassidy Bargell (born December 28, 1999) is an American rugby union player. She competed for the United States in the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup. She plays for the Boston Banshees in the Women's Elite Rugby competition.
Bargell grew up in Colorado and took part in several sports such as skiing, gymnastics, basketball, and volleyball before she found rugby in eighth grade.[1]
In 2018, she joined the national school rugby sevens program. She went to study biology at Harvard University, which she chose in part for the quality of its rugby program.[2] She won a national university title there in 2019.
Bargell overcame ulcerative colitis, she had numerous abdominal surgeries and now lives with an ostomy.[1][2] She later tore her cruciate ligaments and missed the end of her last season with the Harvard Crimson. In 2023, she was among the players nominated for the MA Sorensen Award, an award that recognizes the best college player of the year.