Elite 7s
This season Panther Rugby Academy held three camps in the southeast, looking ahead to a very busy 2024.
Starting in Hendersonville, Tenn. in December, moving on to Gibsonville, NC in January, and ending with a Super Camp in Roswell, Ga. in February, these camps were geared towards player development, identification, and then selection for Tropical 7s in late March.
Premier Rugby Sevens (PR7s), the highest professional level of rugby sevens in the United States, will host Talent ID Trials in San Jose on Sunday, Feb. 25, and Los Angeles on Friday, March 1.
The next two PR7s Talent ID Trials will be held in California.
After camps being held in Pittsburgh in December and Kansas City in January, there will be events in San Jose February 25 and March1 in Los Angeles.
PR7s just held their latest open tryouts, enticing players from all over the West to Kansas City to go through workouts and games in the hopes of being picked up by a pro 7s team.
Overseeing it all was Mike Tolkin, who is PR7s General Manager and who helps teams find players for the summer season (the schedule for which is coming out soon).
The Tropical 7s has confirmed its teams for this year's massive tournament.
Held on Easter Weekend each year, the tournament will be in March for 2024 because Easter is early this year. Fields open on Wednesday March 27 for training and the tournament will run March 29-30 at the Tournament Sportsplex of Tampa Bay in Florida.
The brackets are: