Jun.02.2010
Last Saturday the Trinidad and Tobago Rugby Football (TTRFU) announced the names of eighteen (18) players selected to the T&T Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games Seven-a-side rugby squad. The shortlist was made from a training squad of thirty seven players . The squad will be further reduced to will be reduced twelve players by the end of June 2010.
The Trinidad and Tobago team is scheduled to participate in the CAC Games 7s competition . Also on the cards is the 2010 NACRA 7s. The tournaments are set to take place in Guyana between July 23 to 31, 2010. The NACRA tournament will also be the regional qualifier for the 2011 Pan American Games.
Rugby Sevens was included in the CAC Games after a landmark decision by the International Olympic Committee in October 2009 to include Rugby Sevens as an Olympic sport. “It is in this vein that we thought it wise to also announce a group of young players to prepare for the 2016 Olympics. This group is being called our 2016 Squad and will start training immediately” said T&T's New Zealand born Technical Director, Murray Roulston.
The National Women’s Rugby Sevens team is also scheduled to play in the NACRA Sevens tournament in Guyana in July. “Presently both squads are in training, to be the best we can be when representing our country and ourselves” said Curtis Nero, Chairman of the Selection Committee.
The National Men’s squad is being coached by John Williams with support from Murray Roulston, Larry Mendez and Willet Pantor with Orlando Griffith as strength and conditioning coach. The women are being coached by Kitty Andrews-Nero.
The shortlisted CAC and 2016 squads are as follows:
T&T National 7’s Squads 2010
- National Squad to prepare for upcoming 2010 Tournaments
- and Development Squad 2016
National Squad
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2016 Squad
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