Watch the 2025-2026 HSBC SVNS Series live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThe Commonwealth Games gold medalist last pulled on the gold jersey before the 2024 Paris Olympics, only for a long-term knee injury to cruel her campaign.<\/p>\n
She will be joined in the squad by Queensland-born duo Teagan Levi and Kaitlin Shave.<\/p>\n
Levi reunites with sister Maddison after she impressed during the Next Gen Sevens competition.<\/p>\n
They replace Mackenzie Davis, Bridget Clark and Kiiahla Duff, looking to break New Zealand\u2019s current streak of three titles in a row.<\/p>\n
“We are tracking well despite not getting the win we desired in Vancouver,” Walsh said.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re continuing to rotate our squad with Alysia Lefau-Fakaosilea returning from long-term injuries plus Teagan Levi and Kaitlin Shave re-joining the team to bolster the squad.<\/p>\n
“We are looking to finish the regular series off with the paradox of detail providing consistency whilst challenging athletes to explore their skillsets and strategies.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Men will go into New York with a rare unchanged 13 that finished fourth in Canada.<\/p>\n
Liam Barry\u2019s side took down France and Argentina to qualify for the semi-finals, only to suffer defeats to eventual champions South Africa and Fiji, who both sit tied on top of the overall ladder with one round to go.<\/p>\n
“The team were pleased with their overall Day 1 performance but then bitterly disappointed with their Day 2 results,” Barry believes.<\/p>\n
“We thought we had enough chances in our semi-final to win the game but our execution and added to a couple of critical decisions that went against us.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately we took this frustration into the third-place playoff and lacked discipline which is not how we play.<\/p>\n
“We are all very excited that we are heading to New York for the first time and will look to improve in this weekend\u2019s performances.”<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s Men will meet France, New Zealand and South Africa in the pool stages while the Aussie Women clash with Japan, Canada and USA.<\/p>\n
New York marks the end of the regular season, with the new-look three-leg Championship set to commence in Hong Kong next month, finishing in Spain and France in May.<\/p>\n
Australia Women\u2019s Sevens team for 2025\/2026 HSBC SVNS New York:<\/p>\n
2. Amahli Hala \u2013 6 events<\/p>\n
3. Faith Nathan \u2013 37 events<\/p>\n
5. Teagan Levi\u00a0\u2013 29 events<\/p>\n
6. Madison Ashby (c) \u2013 30 events<\/p>\n
8. Kaitlin Shave\u00a0\u2013 11 events<\/p>\n
9. Tia Hinds \u2013 26 events<\/p>\n
10. Isabella Nasser (c) \u2013 22 events<\/p>\n
11. Demi Kennewell \u2013 29 events<\/p>\n
12. Maddison Levi \u2013 32 events<\/p>\n
13. Heidi Dennis \u2013 11 events<\/p>\n
15. Kahli Henwood \u2013 10 events<\/p>\n
55. Alysia Lefau-Fakaosilea \u2013 15 events<\/p>\n
65. Sariah Paki \u2013 40 events<\/p>\n
Australia Men’s Sevens team for 2025\/2026 HSBC SVNS New York:<\/p>\n
1. Henry Hutchison (c) \u2013 64 events<\/p>\n
2. Ben Dowling \u2013 25 events<\/p>\n
4. Dietrich Roache \u2013 32 events<\/p>\n
7. Josh Turner \u2013 42 events<\/p>\n
10. Ben Dalton \u2013 14 events<\/p>\n
11. Maurice Longbottom \u2013 50 events<\/p>\n
13. Jayden Blake \u2013 11 events<\/p>\n
14. James Turner \u2013 23 events<\/p>\n
23. Aden Ekanayake \u2013 12 events<\/p>\n
24. Ethan McFarland \u2013 5 events<\/p>\n
33. Harry Wilson \u2013 5 events<\/p>\n
49. Archie Saunders \u2013 1 event<\/p>\n
77. Wallace Charlie \u2013 6 events<\/p>\n
Players unavailable for selection<\/p>\n
Will Cartwright (shoulder) \u2013\u00a02026\/2027 seasonCharlotte Caslick (pregnancy) \u2013\u00a02026\/2027 seasonHadley Tonga (finger)\u00a0\u2013 World ChampionshipsMichael Icely (shoulder) \u2013 Hong Kong 7sBeau Morrison (knee)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hong Kong 7sHenry Paterson (knee) \u2013 2026\/2027 season<\/p>\n
HSBC SVNS WORLD SERIES NEW YORK SCHEDULE<\/p>\n
AUSTRALIA MEN<\/p>\n
Sunday March 15: Australia v France (1:44am AEDT)Sunday March 15: Australia v New Zealand (4:40am AEDT)Sunday March 15: Australia v South Africa (7:58am AEDT)<\/p>\n
AUSTRALIA WOMEN<\/p>\n
Sunday March 15: Australia v Japan (3:12am AEDT)Sunday March 15: Australia v Canada (6:08am AEDT)Sunday March 15: Australia v USA (9:26am AEDT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Sevens sides have confirmed their teams for the inaugural New York event on the SVNS World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[65949,65948,9,56,63,65,64,65947],"class_list":{"0":"post-159983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-australian-mens-sevens","9":"tag-australian-womens-sevens","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-sevens-world-series"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}