{"id":131369,"date":"2025-09-09T23:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131369\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T23:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:18:12","slug":"blues-region-shines-in-national-u18-squads-blues-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131369\/","title":{"rendered":"BLUES REGION SHINES IN NATIONAL U18 SQUADS \u2014 Blues Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The future of Blues rugby is in good hands, with strong representation from across our region in this year\u2019s New Zealand U18 squads.<\/p>\n<p>The selections are a credit to the hard work of the players, their families, and the outstanding programmes run through our schools and clubs.<\/p>\n<p>We wish every player all the very best as they head into their respective campaigns, and extend a special acknowledgment to those selected in the NZ Schools side, coached by Blues assistant coach Paul Tito, who will travel to Canberra for two Test matches against an Australian U18 team.<\/p>\n<p>NZ Schools<br \/>Daniel Lawrence (Liston College)<br \/>Jacob Carter (King\u2019s College)<br \/>Jake Hutchings (Rotorua Boys\u2019 High School)<br \/>Liston Vakauta (Sacred Heart College)<br \/>Logan Platt (Auckland Grammar School)<br \/>Luka Makata (Saint Kentigern)<br \/>Marco Miln (King\u2019s College)<br \/>Nico Stanley (Auckland Grammar School)<br \/>Riley Grant-Faiva (Saint Kentigern)<br \/>Siale Pahulu (Saint Kentigern)<br \/>Sione Katoa (Liston College)<\/p>\n<p>NZ Barbarian Under 18s<br \/>Boston Krone (Pakuranga RFC)<br \/>Harry Cornelius (Westlake Boys High School)<br \/>Johan Schaumkell (King\u2019s College)<\/p>\n<p>NZ M\u0101ori Under 18s<br \/>Ashton Savage (Northcote Rugby Club)<br \/>Inoke Vaingalo (Northcote Rugby Club)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future of Blues rugby is in good hands, with strong representation from across our region in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-131369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}