GRR: USA U18s
The Global Youth 7s is set to kick off on Thursday afternoon Eastern Time, with eight North American teams in action.
USA U18s
The USA U18s program has two teams in New Zealand, with the USA U18 Girls and USA U18 Boys.
In 2023 the USA teams did quite well in this tournament and set up some players for higher honors.
USA Rugby's pathways teams are looking for talent and now is the time to nominate players.
The USA U18 Girls are back from Wales after a wildly successful tour.
The young Americans played a day of shortened internationals against Scotland, Netherlands, and Wales, winning all three.
A few days later they suited up against Wales in a full-length age-grade international, losing 17-14.
The USA U28s are set to face a Buenos Aires Academy side Wednesday in Argentina.
The tourists are coming off short-game losses to Chile U18s and Uruguay U18s in a round-robin event last week.
This is the lineup:
The USA U18s lost both of their round-robin games today in Uruguay.
The U18s faced Chile in their opening shortened game today, losing 34-7 to a very speedy Condors side.
They USA U18s then fielded a different 15 against Uruguay and battled hard but lost 20-10, hurt by a couple of yellow cards. Chile played much faster rugby, while Uruguay was physically imposing.
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