International Rugby News
Once the qualification tournament for the 2016 Olympics is done, top 7s teams in North America will face off with top 7s teams in South America in the 2015 Pan-Am Games in Toronto.
The Men’s Rugby 7s event at the Pan-Am Games returns for the second time, while the women get rugby for the first time.
LANGFORD, BC – Canada Men’s Sevens Team’s head coach Liam Middleton has named 14 players to his traveling squad for the NACRA 7s Championships this coming weekend in Cary, NC.
CHULA VISTA, Calif. (USA Rugby provided the bulk of this article) – USA Men’s 7s Coach Mike Friday has made very few changes to the team that won the London 7s May 17 as he named his squad to compete in the 2015 NACRA 7s in Cary, NC.
Friday has named a squad of 13 players for the tournament, which will decide the North American qualifier for the 2016 Olympic Games.
The Super Series (June 27-July 5) marks the USA Women's first test series since the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. Eagle head coach Pete Steinberg has selected a relatively inexperienced squad that will learn the ways of senior international rugby against World Cup finalists England and host Canada, and New Zealand. Below is some more detail on who's making the trip north:
CHULA VISTA, Calif. – USA Women's 7s Coach Ric Suggitt has named his squad for the NACRA 7s this coming weekend in Cary, NC.