DSHA Player Gets Capped for South Africa Tour

Here is a press release from USA Rugby about our U20 Women's' National Team. Congratulations to Maggie Reidy of our own Divine Savior Holy Angels, who earned a place as a starting second row for the Eagle's tour of South Africa this past weekend. Below is the press release from USA Ruby, announcing the full lineout for the match and here is a link to Women's Rugby Review's coverage of the the Eagles 37-7 defeat to South Africa.

Thanks to Tom Schmitt for passing along the following press release:

June 20, 2008
USA Under-20 Women’s National Team Select for Lineup
for South Africa Debut
NELSPRUIT, South Africa – The USA Under-20
Women’s National Team announced today the team set to play the South Africa U-20 WNT on Saturday, June 21. The game will be played at the Nelspruit Rugby School at 3 p.m. local time.

“The quality of the players on this team is much higher than previous years and this made selections difficult,” said U-20 WNT Head Coach Bryn Chivers. “The South African side is new this year and while they have played a couple of games in the last month, we know little about them with the exception of the handful of players from their Senior 15s and Sevens squads.”

“We know they will be big in the tight five with and fast in the back three,” added Chivers.

Under-20 Women’s National Team Backs Coach Tasha Bishop thinks the squad will be up for the challenge and this will make for a very enjoyable game of rugby with interesting speed matchups across the backline.

Forwards coach Sue Oldenburg sees at the size of the South African forwards as a potential obstacle in the set, but is confident that the U.S. pack will offer their own challenge with their speed in the open field play.

The U-20 Women are scheduled to play two additional games in Nelspruit, capital of the South African province of Mpumalanga. The team meets another test against the South Africa Under-20 Women on June 28, and also has a match versus the Mpumalanga Senior Women on June 25.

The USA Under-20 Women selected to face South Africa are:

1 Rachel Sommer, West Linn, OR

2 Brittany Woodard, Hyde School, DC

3 Jay Marie Hill, Stanford

4 Anneke Brand, Texas Tech

5 Maggie Reidy, Divine Savior Holy Angels, WI

6 CandaceBarley, Maryville, TN

7 Katie Johnson, Hopkins, MN

8 Alex Hartley, Brown

9 BriAnna Barto, Summit, CO

10 Lisa Henneman (C), Seattle Women

11 Tyra McGrady, Indiana

12 Marie Timm, USMA

13 Catherine Turnerdrown, Riverton,UT

14 Seymi Salami, State College, PA

15 Sadie Anderson, Fort Collins, CO

16 Joanna Kitlinski, Grand Valley State

17 Tayo Mafe, Michigan State

18 Mallory Ives, Colorado State

19 Jozy Gesner, Summit, CO

20 Catherine Parkhill, Armstrong, MN

21 Kayla Morisoli, San Jose State

22 Blaine Martin, Brown