The Meg Votta Memorial Fund was created in 2010 to honor the memory of Margaret "Meg" Votta, who passed away in November 2009 after a valiant battle with ovarian cancer.

The fund was established to provide scholarships for deserving members of the New York Rugby Club's high school programs to be used for continuing education. Scholarships are awarded to the boy and the girl who each best express what the game of rugby has meant to them and their plans for furthering their education.

Meg was a player for Cornell Women’s Rugby Football Club, which became the Gotham City Women’s RFC and ultimately New York Women’s Rugby (NYRC). She is perhaps the only woman to wear all three jerseys. She was also the founder of the highly regarded, Touring Women Over Thirty, The Olde Girls, the only national old girls rugby team in the U.S.

Meg was also an accomplished chef and was graduated from the Culinary Institute of America. In the early 1990’s she won a local chili cook-off competition and that event was revived as a fundraiser for the scholarships. Meg asked her friends that they continue her support of rugby. Combining rugby with cooking and a scholarship for the future helps keep Meg’s spirit alive for the sport she loved.