HSBC SVNS Collection star Sid Harvey headlines a proficient Australia U20 squad for The Rugby Championship U20 in South Africa from Might 1 to 11. Coach Chris Whitaker has named a proficient 31-man group for the competitors at Gqeberha’s Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.
Harvey has been spectacular on the worldwide sevens circuit, having debuted on the season-opening occasion in Dubai final December. The 19-year-old has since been chosen to play on the different 5 round-robin stops, together with the distinguished Hong Kong Sevens.
In a dramatic third-place playoff in opposition to fan favourites Fiji on the all-new Kai Tak Stadium, Harvey scored a last-gasp winner in entrance of a packed home on the venue. Harvey would later inform RugbyPass “it means a bit bit extra” having scored in opposition to an always-popular Fiji facet.
However with coach Whitaker naming Harvey within the Australia U20 squad, {the teenager}’s first season on the SVNS Collection is over. Harvey received’t participate within the upcoming SVNS Collection World Championship in Los Angeles from Might 3 to 4.
The second-ever Rugby Championship U20 will happen throughout that interval, with Gqeberha’s (previously Port Elizabeth) internet hosting all of the matches at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. Australia will tackle their U20 counterparts from New Zealand, South Africa and Argentina.
That is the ultimate aggressive hit-out for these groups forward of the rapidly-approaching World Rugby U20 Championship in Italy, which can be held in June and July.
“Now we have a proficient group of gamers who’re wanting to study and excited by the chance to signify Australia on the worldwide stake,” Whitaker mentioned in a press release.
“For a lot of of them this would be the first time managing the problem of worldwide degree and five-day turnarounds, mixed with three powerful, bodily video games.
“TRC U20 is about consolidating and including layers to what we began collectively in Coffs Harbour final week, as we proceed to construct as much as the World Rugby U20 Championship.”
From the 31-man record, the Waratahs are represented essentially the most with 13 gamers from New South Wales chosen within the nationwide U20 squad. The ACT Brumbies have the second-most with eight, adopted by the Reds with six, after which lastly the Drive with three.
Fullback Shane Wilcox is one other notable inclusion on this squad, as is Queensland’s Trevor King who’s again for a 3rd marketing campaign with the workforce. Ollie Barrett, Boston Fakafanua and Finn Prass are the three representatives out of Western Australia.
Australia U20 squad
Finn Baxter (ACT Brumbies, Gungahlin Eagles)
Nick Hill (NSW Waratahs, Warringah)
Trevor King (Queensland Reds, Souths)
Kaleb Ah-Colt (NSW Waratahs, Randwick)
Edwin Langi (NSW Waratahs, Jap Suburbs)
Lipina Ata (ACT Brumbies, Gungahlin Eagles)
Ollie Barrett (Western Drive, Associates RUFC)
Charlie O’Kane (NSW Waratahs, Jap Suburbs)
Ollie Aylmer (ACT Brumbies, Gordon)
Charlie Brosnan (Queensland Reds, Brothers)
Eamon Doyle (NSW Waratahs, Sydney College)
Joe Mangelsdorf (NSW Waratahs, Sydney College)
Eli Langi (ACT Brumbies, Tuggeranong Vikings)
Jacob Veiru (NSW Waratahs, Jap Suburbs)
Beau Morrison (ACT Brumbies, Sydney College)
Tom Robinson (Queensland Reds, College of Queensland)
Luca Cleverley (NSW Waratahs, Randwick)
Toby Brial (NSW Waratahs, Jap Suburbs)
James Martens (Queensland Reds, GPS Rugby Membership)
Hwi Sharples (NSW Waratahs, Sydney College)
Joe Dillon (ACT Brumbies, Canberra Royals)
Joey Fowler (NSW Waratahs, Sydney College)
Boston Fakafanua (Western Drive, Wests Scarborough)
Malakye Enasio (ACT Brumbies, Gungahlin Eagles)
Liam Grover (NSW Waratahs, Sydney College)
Cooper Watters (NSW Waratahs, Jap Suburbs)
Xavier Rubens (Queensland Reds, Souths)
Nick Conway (Queensland Reds, Wests Bulldogs)
Shane Wilcox (ACT Brumbies, Tuggeranong Vikings)
Finn Prass (Western Drive, Wests Scarborough)
Sid Harvey (Australia Sevens)
Match schedule
Australia U20 v New Zealand U20
10pm AEST Thursday 1 Might
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Gqeberha
Australia U20 v South Africa U20
12.10am AEST Wednesday 7 Might
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Gqeberha
Australia U20 v Argentina U20
10pm AEST Sunday 11 Might
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Gqeberha
