Queensland Reds young gun Trevon Pritchard headlines the squad, having made his Super Rugby Pacific debut a fortnight ago against the ACT Brumbies.<\/p>\n
Pritchard is one of two with Super Rugby Pacific experience, with Frankie Goldsbrough also named in the squad.<\/p>\n
They are joined by recent Australia U20s debutant Cooper Watters, who featured for the side in Singapore to start the year.<\/p>\n
Watters is one of 13 NSW Waratahs included alongside Leo Jacques, who helped the Waratahs to the Super Rugby AUS title last year.<\/p>\n
There are several graduates from the successful Australia U18s program that defeated New Zealand Secondary Schools last year, including Kingsley Uys, Will Ross, Angus Grover and Isaac Fonua.<\/p>\n
Kingsley Uys is one of several Australia U18s graduates stepping into the U20s program.<\/p>\n
ACT Brumbies back-rower Eli Langi is one of a strong core of returning stars from last year’s Australia U20s campaign alongside Watters, Edwin Langi, Tom Robinson, Toby Brial and Nicholas Conway.<\/p>\n
Sevens rising star Wallace Charlie is unavailable due to his World Series commitments, with Waratahs prop Nick Hill and Reds second-rower Bennett Armistead among the injured players not selected.<\/p>\n
“After a competitive Super Rugby Next Gen competition to begin the year, we are pleased to name an exciting 32-man squad for our first camp of 2026,” Whitaker said.<\/p>\n
“Coffs Coast Festival of Rugby gives us our first chance to start building connection on-and-off the field.<\/p>\n
“We are looking forward to using this week as a springboard to build towards a strong Junior World Championship campaign in Georgia.”<\/p>\n
Whitaker will be joined by his coaching team of Damien Hill (Defence), Jeremy Thrush (Forwards) and Matthew Evrard\/Nic Henderson (Scrum) for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
AUSTRALIA U20s SQUAD FOR APRIL TRAINING CAMP<\/p>\n
ACT Brumbies <\/p>\n
Ewald Kruger – Hooker <\/p>\n
Tavita Loughland – Lock <\/p>\n
Oscar Cleary – Lock\/Backrow <\/p>\n
Eli Langi – Backrow <\/p>\n
Cooper Eagle – Backrow <\/p>\n
Dylan Bretton – Centre\/Wing <\/p>\n
Riley Whitfield – Centre\/Wing<\/p>\n
Western Force<\/p>\n
Jasper Asi – Prop<\/p>\n
Queensland Reds<\/p>\n
Kingsley Uys – Prop <\/p>\n
Jacob Job – Prop <\/p>\n
Jonah Rangiwai – Prop <\/p>\n
John Grenfell – Hooker <\/p>\n
Will Ross – Lock <\/p>\n
Tom Robinson – Backrow <\/p>\n
Finn Mackay – Flyhalf <\/p>\n
Frankie Goldsbrough – Centre <\/p>\n
Taione Taka – Centre\/Wing <\/p>\n
Nicholas Conway – Wing\/Fullback <\/p>\n
Treyvon Pritchard – Centre\/Fullback<\/p>\n
NSW Waratahs <\/p>\n
Harper Strachan – Prop <\/p>\n
Edwin Langi – Prop <\/p>\n
Tyler Maybery – Hooker <\/p>\n
Isaac Fonua – Lock\/Backrow <\/p>\n
Luca Cleverley – Backrow <\/p>\n
Marshall Le Maitre – Backrow <\/p>\n
Toby Brial – Backrow <\/p>\n
Angus Grover – Scrumhalf <\/p>\n
Sam Blank – Scrumhalf <\/p>\n
Jonty Fowler – Flyhalf <\/p>\n
Leo Jaques – Centre\/Wing <\/p>\n
Cooper Watters – Centre\/Wing <\/p>\n
Louis Fenwicke – Centre\/Fullback<\/p>\n
Unavailable for selection<\/p>\n
Dylan Simmons (Waratahs, injury) <\/p>\n
Nick Hill (Waratahs, injury) <\/p>\n
Manaia Te Tana (Force, injury) <\/p>\n
Bennett Armistead (Reds, injury) <\/p>\n
Ed Kasprowicz (Waratahs, injury) <\/p>\n
Felix Cooper (Force, injury) <\/p>\n
Tom Farr-Jones (Waratahs, injury) <\/p>\n
Wallace Charlie (AU Sevens)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia U20s coach Chris Whitaker has named a 32-player squad that will assemble in Coffs Harbour for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,8626,760,85],"class_list":["post-549412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-u20","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549412","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=549412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}