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Heavy Canadian Influence in Girls Tropical 7s Brackets

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Heavy Canadian Influence in Girls Tropical 7s Brackets

The Tsunami Toronto Reds are ready.

There are 56 girls HS-age teams in the Tropical 7s this weekend.

The biggest bracket is the U18 Girls Open, with 24 teams, including upto a third of them being Canadian. 

The U16 Girls bracket includes 20 teams with about 40% being Canadian, and teams from Newfoundland, Idaho, British Columbia, Michigan, Colorado, and Utah.

The smallest bracket is the Elite bracket, but you'd expect that. Hawkeyes has brought it in a big way with three U16 teams, two U18 Open teams, and one in the U18 Elite bracket. The Idaho-based group works in part with the Celtic Barbarians, which has been active in these sorts of tournaments.

The Rugby Advantage, run by Life University Head Coach Ryszard Chadwick, has two teams in the Elite bracket, and there is also Atlantis, MacDowell out of BC, Majestics and the Cannibals, both out of Utah. Badger Rugby Academy (Wisconsin) is very talented and there's also the All-Midwest Thunderbirds to represent the region. The Tsunami Toronto Reds (part of the Misfits program) comes out of Ontario, while the NRU Thunder is also from Ontario, the Niagara Falls area specifically. 

Clearly the warm Florida weather is attracting the Canadian girls teams.

U16 Girls U18 Girls Elite U18 Girls Open
POOL A POOL A POOL A
Hawkeyes Rugby  All-Midwest Thunderbirds  MacDowell Rugby Open
NL Rock  Hawkeyes Rugby  Saint John Trojans 
NRU Thunder 7s  NRU Thunder 7s  Sparta Rockford Girls Rugby 
Oshawa Vikings  The Rugby Advantage 'White'  USA Rugby South Panther Academy BLUE 
USA Rugby South Panther Academy BLUE     
  POOL B POOL B
POOL B Atlantis Rugby  Hawkeyes Rugby Blue 
Atlantis Rugby  MacDowell Rugby  New Brunswick Spruce
Hawkeyes Rugby Young Guns  Majestics  Riverdale Rugby 
MacDowell Rugby  The Rugby Advantage 'Red'  Upright Rugby Rogues 
Pioneer Girls Select     
Tsunami Canada Misfits- RED  POOL C POOL C
  Badger Rugby Academy  Lady Rebels Rugby 
POOL C The Rugby Advantage 'Black'  Tsunami Canada Misfits 
Halifax RFC  Tsunami Toronto Reds  USA Rugby South Panther Academy RED
Sparta Rockford Girls Rugby  Utah Cannibals  Woodlands Youth Rugby 
Tsunami Canada Misfits- BLUE     
USA Rugby South Panther Academy Red    POOL D
Upright Rugby Rogues    Hillfield Strathallan College Trojans 
    Raleigh Redhawks 
POOL D   Rock and Roll 
EORU    Rugby Colorado Academy 
Hawkeyes Rugby Utah     
Lady Rebels Rugby    POOL E
Saint John Trojans    Hawkeyes Rugby Young Guns 
USA West    Oshawa Vikings 
    Pleasanton Lady Cavaliers 
    Salish Sea Warriors 
     
    POOL F
    Hawkeyes Rugby 
    Nashville Nighthawks 
    Sahuarita Spartans 
    The Bruce