GRR: USA Men 7s
Kevin Swiryn attended Saint Mary's College of California planning to play football, but when the football program was halted, he found something better.
Tony Ridnell was the pride of Old Puget Sound Beach and was the towering force on their back row and 7s forward pack as Beach began a run of four national 7s club championships in five years.
Kevin Higgins has two rugby scholarships named after him, and that's because he was hugely respected as a player despite being cut down in his prime.
Tommy Smith was a supremely talented 7s and 15s player, who was good enough as a 15s backline player to be selected for a World XV that beat the Barbarians in Hong Kong in 1981.
Things we learned after tue USA 7s team weekend.
Now that he's stopped cutting his hair, Madison Hughes, from a distance, is almost indistinguishable from Harley Wheeler.
Even if you have Perry Baker on your team, if you can't get support to the tackle to recycle possession, you're going to lose.