Australia U16 Head Coach Tim Rapp has named a 25-player squad to participate in a December training camp with the week culminating in a match against a NSW Waratahs U17 side on Thursday 10 December (venue TBC).<\/p>\n
The younger brother of Wallabies star Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii, prop Christopher Suaalii, makes the squad after captaining the Waratahs to a successful U16 campaign.<\/p>\n
He is joined by Digby Ioane, the nephew of the former Wallaby by the same name.<\/p>\n
All five Super Rugby U16 clubs have a representative in the squad, with champions NSW Waratahs having the most with 11 selections.<\/p>\n
The squad will assemble at St Gregory’s College in Campbelltown from Saturday 5 December.<\/p>\n
Rapp will be joined by assistant coaches Jono Lance, Jay Tregonning and S&C coach Mark Chisholm.<\/p>\n
Australia U16 Head Coach Tim Rapp said:<\/p>\n
“This year’s Super Rugby Men’s U16 competition continued to deliver on our impressive development pathways across the country.<\/p>\n
“This competition has again delivered a high level of performance from plenty of individuals and the squad selected to represent Australia will showcase some exciting talent.<\/p>\n
“Those selected will have the chance to accelerate their development in a national environment while having an opportunity of pulling on the gold jersey.”<\/p>\n
National Pathways Manager Nic Henderson said:<\/p>\n
“There are lots of talented players that unfortunately missed out on selection to the squad on this occasion, but we will continue to monitor their development as they progress into the Australian U18’s space in 2027.” <\/p>\n
Australia U16 squad:<\/p>\n
Adam Dzaja –\tACT Brumbies\tMarist College\tN\/A <\/p>\n
Andrew Larkin –\tNSW Waratahs\tSt Ignatius\tDrummoyne\/Norths <\/p>\n
Antonio Azzi – \tNSW Waratahs\tTrinity Grammar\tOatley <\/p>\n
C’ezar-mayn Leota – \tQueensland Reds\tNudgee College\tBrothers\/Wynnum <\/p>\n
Christopher Suaalii – \tNSW Waratahs\tThe King’s School\tDural <\/p>\n
Daniel De Swardt – Queensland Reds\tIpswich Grammar\tIpswich <\/p>\n
Deon Haynes – \tNSW Waratahs\tNewington College\tOatley <\/p>\n
Digby Ioane –\tQueensland Reds\tBrisbane State\tSunnybank <\/p>\n
Harry Jones-Hughes –\tNSW Waratahs\tSt Augustine’s College\tNarrabeen <\/p>\n
Isaac Kasprowicz – NSW Waratahs\tShore School\tManly <\/p>\n
Israel Leuga – \tVictoria\tVictoria Secondary College\tPower House <\/p>\n
Kaiden Grace – \tNSW Waratahs\tSt Augustine’s College\tManly <\/p>\n
Kellam Joseph – \tQueensland Reds\tNudgee College\tBrothers\/Moree <\/p>\n
Kobi Treffery-Koenders – \tWestern Force\tDarling Range College\tKalamunda <\/p>\n
Longoatu Jr Vaka – \tWestern Force\tAranmore College\tPalmyra <\/p>\n
Lorima Seuseu – \tNSW Waratahs\tBarker College\tOatley <\/p>\n
Lucas Aholahi\t– NSW Waratahs\tHoly Cross College\tN\/A <\/p>\n
Lukas Pendleton – NSW Waratahs\tWaverley College\tRandwick <\/p>\n
Marcus Grehan – \tQueensland Reds\tNudgee College\tBrothers\/Bulimba <\/p>\n
Riley Carr\t– NSW Waratahs\tWaverley College\tRandwick <\/p>\n
Toby Bretherton –\tQueensland Reds\tIpswich Grammar\tCentral Highlands <\/p>\n
Tom Gibb –\tQueensland Reds\tNudgee College\tBrothers <\/p>\n
Travarn Ackerman-Fifita –\tWestern Force\tDarling Range College\tKalamunda <\/p>\n
Will Jessiman –\tQueensland Reds\tThe Southport School\tBulimba\/Mudgee <\/p>\n
Zaine Gurney –\tQueensland Reds\tBrisbane State\tBulimba<\/p>\n
UNAVAILABLE FOR SELECTION:<\/p>\n
Billy Bowen – NSW Waratahs <\/p>\n
Cruz Holmes – NSW Waratahs <\/p>\n
Kaiya Tafea – Queensland Reds <\/p>\n
Sebastian Conna – NSW Waratahs <\/p>\n
Wesley Moala – NSW Waratahs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia U16 Head Coach Tim Rapp has named a 25-player squad to participate in a December training camp…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58864,64,63,189203,44,32951,12061,11229],"class_list":["post-933425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-act-brumbies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-u16s","tag-news","tag-nsw-waratahs","tag-queensland-reds","tag-western-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933425","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=933425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}