USA Men's Age-Grade Teams Announce Tour Plans
The USA age=grade teams are going to be active this year despite World Rugby's drawback from U20 action.
World Rugby is reportedly coming back with a new-look U20 world competition for 2026. As it is, this year, there's nothing, so USA rugby is focusing in part on a U19 team that can be developed for U20 competition a year later.
USA Men's Age-Grade Update
World Rugby will not be holding a World Rugby Trophy this year, and will instead implement plans to expand the U20 World Championship for 2026.
What that does, however, is leave a bunch of national U20 programs without a specific competition and, crucially, a funded competition.
U20s Hard at Work as Canada Games Loom
The USA U20 Men's team has been in training in Ferndale, Wash. at the DeWilde Rugby Fields, run by the Chuckanut Rugby Club.
De Wilde Facilities Director's Pride in Training Site for USA U20s
The USA Rugby U20s are gearing up for a crucial competition, and their training ground is anything but ordinary.
Chuckanut Bay Rugby Club has prepped the deWilde Rugby & Polo Club grounds for this vital training session. Here's why deWilde is the perfect place for the U20s to hone their skills:
Busy Summer for USA Age-Grade Women's Teams
GLENDALE, Colo. (USA Rugby Release)—USA Women’s Pathways Manager Martha Daines has confirmed a busy summer for the USA Junior National Teams, with international tours scheduled for the U18s and for the U20s in July, as well as the return of the U23s All Star Competition in June, in partnership with the New England Free Jacks of Major League Rugby.
