SALT LAKE CITY - Ninety-six young women arrived on the campus of the University of Utah Tuesday ahead of the USA Rugby All-American Stars and Stripes Camp.
Based on age, players will first be divided into Junior All-American (under-20) and Collegiate All-American (under-23) teams - Stars and Stripes - for matches Thursday, June 30, and Saturday, July 2. Coaches, including Dartmouth Head Coach Katie Dowty and Central Washington Head Coach Mel Denham, will scout athletes during the first match for potential reorganization of the teams for the second set of matches.
Following the Camp, an AIG Women's Collegiate All-Americans squad will be selected by Head Coach Sue Whitwell for two matches against Canada's Maple Leafs development side at Regional Athletic Complex. Both matches - Tuesday, July 5, and Saturday, July 9 - will serve as curtain raisers to the second and third match days of the Women's Rugby Super Series, featuring the Women's Eagles, Canada, England, and France. Whether invited to Camp as a Junior or Collegiate All-American representative, players may earn their place with the age-grade national team in the Stars and Stripes matches.
Along with Denham and Dowty, New York Rugby Club Head Coach James English and Denver Black Ice Head Coach Jon Mooney will lead the Collegiate and Junior sides, respectively, throughout the week. Assistant coaches Evi Ashenbrucker, Sharon Blaney, Bernie Cantorna, and Kelly Seary have all attended past national team assemblies as part of the Training and Education Pathway, and will work with Whitwell and AIG Women's Junior All-American Head Coach Wil Snape to improve the players' understanding of this level of play as well as their own coaching abilities.
Central Washington's Asinate Serevi was a member of the WJAA team that defeated Canada's under-20s twice last year, and was selected to the senior assembly at University of Utah this week. Several Wildcat teammates, as well as representatives from D1 Elite schools Brigham Young, Life, Lindenwood, Penn State, and Stanford, are in attendance at the Stars and Stripes Camp.
Selections for the WCAAs facing Canada's Maple Leafs will be announced at the culmination of Camp. The July 5 and 9 matches will be broadcast live on The Rugby Channel from Regional Athletic Complex.
Collegiate All-Americans | Stars and StripesÂ
Nicole Benedetti - Brandywine RiotÂ
Madeline Brenner - Tulane UniversityÂ
Kaitlyn Broughton - Life UniversityÂ
Sarah Buonopane - BeantownÂ
Ashlee Byrge - Davenport UniversityÂ
Gabriella Cantorna - Penn StateÂ
Chelsey Cobler - Eastern Kentucky UniversityÂ
Allyson Day - Norwich UniversityÂ
Sheila Decker - Norwich UniversityÂ
Amanda Divich - Lindenwood UniversityÂ
Brenna Donahue - Davenport UniversityÂ
Lanoira Duhart - Winona State UniversityÂ
Yejadai Dunn - Dartmouth CollegeÂ
Allison Dykes - Little Rock StormersÂ
Frieda Fetu'u - Berkeley All BluesÂ
Tess Feury - Penn StateÂ
Emily Fulbrook - ScionÂ
Summer Harris-Jones - University of VirginiaÂ
McKenzie Hawkins - Lindenwood UniversityÂ
Rebekah Hebdon - BYUÂ
Katana Howard - Twin Cities AmazonsÂ
Kayla Hunkin-Clark - AICÂ
Leah Ingold - Central Washington UniversityÂ
Jennifer Johnson - Central Washington UniversityÂ
Bailey Johnson - Minnesota ValkyriesÂ
Bridget Kahele - AICÂ
Hannah Lange - Western Oregon UniversityÂ
Maya Learned - Harvard UniversityÂ
Emily Lessner - Virginia Tech UniversityÂ
Jessica Lewis - Life WestÂ
Katherine Loughran - University of Notre DameÂ
Darian Lovelace - Life UniversityÂ
Irayda Macedo - San Diego SurfersÂ
Ilona Maher - Quinnipiac UniversityÂ
Etta Mailau - VipersÂ
Hunter Moreland - Davenport UniversityÂ
Azniv Nalbandian - Penn StateÂ
Madison Ohmann - Life UniversityÂ
Uzoamaka Okoro - Brown UniversityÂ
Danielle Ordway - Davenport UniversityÂ
Taylah Pipkin - Penn StateÂ
Megan Rom - Life UniversityÂ
Elizabeth Rose - Penn StateÂ
Francesca Sands - Norwich UniversityÂ
Haley Schafer - Central Washington UniversityÂ
Megan Shalvis - University of Nevada-RenoÂ
Carly Waters - Penn State