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