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GHSAA Set to Face British Columbia

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GHSAA Set to Face British Columbia

Tiara and Sui A'au are two of three A'au sisters in Friday's lineup.

The USA Rugby Girls High School All-Americans powered by ATAVUS will run out a mostly Western USA team today, Friday, to face the British Columbia U18s in Seattle.

The West GHSAA squad hopes to recreate the success of the Eastern team, that swept Quebec U18s in two games at Mount Saint Mary's at the end of July (the U16s also won their two games). Eleven of the 23 players named are from the Pacific Northwest, with local power Kent Crusaders supplying six players to the squad. Three sisters will start - Tiara, Tiana, and Sui A'au from Grant in Oregon. 

Meanwhile Mata Hingano is part of another All America sisterhood - the Danville Oaks standout will captain the squad.

Here's the lineup as chosen by GHSAA Head Coach Farrah Douglas:


1. Finau Tamaviena (Kent, Wash.)
2. Destiny Arena (Fallbrook, Calif.)
3. Tiara A'au (Grant, Ore.)
4. Cearra Bettcher (Kent, Wash.) 
5. Mililani Leui (South Bay, Calif.)
6. Lolo Makaafi (Kent, Wash.)
7. Julie Riekena (Missoula, Mont.)
8. Tiana A'au (Grant, Ore.)
9. Cassidy Bargell (Summit, Colo.)
10. Mele Tausinga (Sacramento PAL, Calif.)
11. Alexandra Sedrick (Herriman, Utah)
12. McKenna Strong (Kent, Wash.)
13. Mata Hingano (C) (Danville, Calif.)
14. Sui A'au (Grant, Ore.)
15. Nia Toliver (ICEF, Calif.)

Girls High School All-Americans powered by ATAVUS | Reserves
16. Lily Brown (Kent, Wash.)
17. Penina Tuilaepa (Kent, Wash.)
18. Rian Moala (South Bay, Calif.)
19. Winter (Lily) O'Brien (Rainier Plateau, Wash.)
20. Cheyene Nielson (United, Utah)
21. Seuini Imari 
22. Brianna Vaquez (South Bay, Calif.)
23. MaryJane Paisoles (Sacramento PAL, Calif.)

Girls High School All-Americans powered by ATAVUS Coaching Staff
Farrah Douglas - Head Coach
Ricardo Ramirez - Assistant Coach
Shawn Pittman - Assistant Coach
Sarah Leslie - Physiotheraphist
Carrie DuBray - Manager
Jacque Harrell - Manager

The GHSAA will play the BC U18s Friday and Sunday in a two-game series at Magnuson Park in Seattle.