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Collegiate All-American 15s Campers

  • 15 Jun 2018
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Chico State’s Darby McFall / Photo: Alex Ho (hoiho.net)

Dartmouth College is hosting the Women’s Collegiate All-American (WCAA) 15s camp next week, June 19-24. Newly appointed USA Women’s National Team (WNT) head coach Rob Cain won’t be in attendance, but Katie Dowty and Wil Snape, as well as coaches from the SOAR Program – Ros Chou, Mel Denham, Jamie Burke, Kate Daley – will run the assembly. The age-grade teams have made some coaching changes, and those details will be released by USA Rugby.

Per USA Rugby, this assembly will be used to:

Identify athletes who have potential to track to the 2021 World Cup, develop longer-term plans for players projecting to 2021, 2024 & 2025, develop critical actions and behaviors for players needed to project to senior 15s.

At present, there are no matches scheduled for the WCAAs this year; however, there are senior WNT assemblies and USA A fixtures on the 2018 calendar.

The 48 players from 23 teams hail from the senior club ranks – Women’s Premier League, Division I and BC’s Premier League (Canada) – as well as the collegiate DI Elite, National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA), Division I and Division II. There’s a large representation of former Junior All-Americans, and five who played on the first Girls’ High School All-American team (2015 LVI 7s): 7s and 15s Eagle Tess Feury; current MA Sorensen winner McKenzie Hawkins; Dartmouth’s Kat Ramage from Morris; Fallbrook and Central Washington product Michel Navarro; and Life’s Whitney Wilson, who played in Texas.

Finally, keep in mind that not all players were able to accept their invitations to camp. This is a busy time of year, especially for graduating seniors organizing their new lives, and the absence of a player or team isn’t necessarily the result of an oversight.

Collegiate All-American 15s Camp

Kainoa Ah Quin – BYU

Funmi Akinlosotu – Air Force

Milla Anderson – Dartmouth

Kaitlyn Broughton – Life

Ella Brucker – Queens University of Charlotte

N’Keiah Butler – Life

Gabby Cantorna – Penn State

Amber Chandu – New York RC

Scout Cheeks – Penn State

Cassandra Darrow – Yale

Rachel Ehrecke – Penn State

Karen Faget – Life

Tess Feury – Penn State

Jett Hayward – Stanford

Rachel Hand – Dartmouth

McKenzie Hawkins – Lindenwood

Corinne Heavner – Penn State

Noelle Heiser – Air Force

Kayla Hunkin-Clark – AIC

Jenny Kronish – Harvard

Cortney Kuehl – Central Florida

Haley Langan – Harvard

Maya Learned – Harvard

Sarah Levy – Northeastern

Darian Lovelace – Life

Etta Mailau – Utah Vipers

Taylor Makowski – Life

Yana Manoa – Central Washington

Darby McFall – Chico State

Morgan McGonagle – Dartmouth

Michel Navarro – Central Washington

Kelsie O’Brien – Air Force

Madison Ohmann – Life

Olivia Ortiz – Davenport

Kat Ramage – Dartmouth

Michelle Reyes – NOVA

Megan Rom – Life

Frankie Sands – Dartmouth

Ravyn Santiago – Life

Nate Serevi – Central Washington

Emma Shimek – Notre Dame

Hayden Short – Coast Guard

Grace Taito – BYU

Finau Tamaivena – Seattle Saracens

Joyce Taufa – Lindenwood

Kristina Tomelloso – St. Mary’s College

Carly Waters – Penn State

Whitney Wilson – Life

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