GRR: National Teams
09.29.2014 - Alex Goff
Maka Unufe’s inclusion in the USA 7s team to the Gold Coast is an important step for the lanky young speedster.
09.27.2014 - Alex Goff
So we wanted to know what Mike Friday and Chris Brown would put together as a USA 7s team, and we got hints early on. Now we know.
The hints were that Friday looked for a few more athletes who required some grooming. He looked for height, and rangy runners. One guy he didn’t pick, Garrett Brewer, is still almost the perfect example of the kind of athlete he wanted to look at.
09.27.2014 - GRR Staff
CHULA VISTA, Calif. – USA Men's 7s Head Coach Mike Friday has named his squad to play in the opening tournament of the 2014-15 IRB HSBC Sevens World Series in Australia.
09.21.2014 - Alex Goff
CHULA VISTA, Calif. – Twenty-eight athletes will get a final opportunity to impress Men’s Eagles Sevens Head Coach Mike Friday this week at the third Men’s Eagles High Performance Sevens Camp of the season. The HP Camp runs Sunday, Sept. 21, through Saturday, Sept.
09.15.2014 - Alex Goff
It seems now we get to say this every four years, which is a good thing - preparation for the Men’s 15s Rugby World Cup appears to be better than last time.
In 2003, the USA team was in solid form when it arrived in Australia, and the result was a bonus-point victory, and a one-point loss in a year that yielded more victories, seven, than any Eagle team before or since