{"id":193799,"date":"2025-10-06T18:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/193799\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:27:07","slug":"usa-womens-under-18s-paving-pathway-to-global-youth-sevens-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/193799\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Women\u2019s Under 18s paving pathway to Global Youth Sevens Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The top USA Rugby Women&#8217;s Under-18s players have assembled this week in Chula Vista, California for a five-day training and selection camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">19 players from across the country were invited and will be in line for selection to represent the USA in New Zealand at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalyouthsevens.rugby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Global Youth Sevens Championship<\/a> December 19-21st. The USA Pathways program have identified this event as a top showcase and marker for emerging talent with it being the USA\u2019s third year making a team appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Head Coach Irene Gardner commented;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">\u201cThis camp continues our efforts to verify the talent across the country in our rugby communities identified in 2025 as part of our women\u2019s pathway talent ID campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;We are excited to learn more about the athletes we caught glimpses of at either a Talent ID camp or scouting event. The youth community development efforts continue to be vital to the players that enter and continue on in our pathway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">&#8220;For returning players, we are excited to see how their past experiences and ongoing development at the high school or collegiate levels have elevated their skill and game play. Some of our players have just started their collegiate journeys and we welcome their leadership to drive standards in our pathway environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The final squad will be narrowed down in the following weeks and the 13 player traveling roster will be announced ahead of the Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Global Youth Sevens Player Pool<\/p>\n<p>         Name     School \/ Club            Shawnee Asiata     Majestics Rugby Club           MacKenzie Aluise     Manheim Township Highschool\/ Doylestown Rugby Club           Tanner Avery     Raleigh Rugby Cobras           Ariane Moeai     Skyridge High School\/ United Girls Rugby Club           Giselle Long     Eagle Impact Rugby Academy           Kanani Watts     Eagle High School Kraig Smikel           Zoe Zumbro     Belmont Shore           Gianna Veetutu     Kent Crusaders           Lucy Walker     Denver East Womens Rugby           Madison Englin     Waverly-Shell Rock Girls Rugby Club           Annabella Vogel     Life University Ryszard Chadwick           Tevi Rarick     Majestics Rugby Club           Olivia Frisby     Life University           Teagan Barth     Summit High School           Chante Tuilevuka     Provo Steelers           Olivia Lyman     Dartmouth College           Adi Mereseini Lagilagi     Sacramento Air           Lauren Huang     Brown University           Madelyn Hubbell     Harvard University    <\/p>\n<p>USA Women\u2019s Sevens Pathway Staff<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Irene Gardner | Head Coach<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Kelly Griffin | Assistant Coach<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Jackie Rodriguez | Head Athletic Trainer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top USA Rugby Women&#8217;s Under-18s players have assembled this week in Chula Vista, California for a five-day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,122278],"class_list":["post-193799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-usa-womens-sevens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193799","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=193799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}