These sports provide athletes the opportunity to develop their skills, learn team concepts, and compete against teams from other high schools. The Rugby team travels to New England tournaments and plays teams mostly in Massachusetts. The Sailing team practices out of the East Greenwich Yacht club and regularly competes in regattas around Rhode Island.
Rugby is a popular spring club sport which annually attracts more than fifty participants. The team travels to tournaments around New England on spring weekends and plays a regular schedule of home and away games with mostly Massachusetts high school teams. Hendricken won the New England Rugby championship in 2010. The head coach is Brian Moore.
Hendricken has had a sailing team for more than two decades and is among the best high school teams in the Rhode Island area. The team has its own fleet of boats and practices and holds home meets out of the East Greenwich Yacht Club. Joakim Karlson is the head coach.