Ontario Jr. Blues Announce 2019 Sevens Long List Rosters
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 7th, 2018
(WHITBY, ON)- The Ontario Jr. Blues are pleased to announce the long list rosters for the 2019 Sevens program. This year the teams will be traveling to compete in Las Vegas, Victoria and Florida.
In 2019, the program will field eight teams. Two U18 and two U16 squads for both girls and boys. In 2018, the Jr. Blues Sevens Program enjoyed a very successful season. Both the U18 Girls and Boys teams won National Championships.
"Last year the Ontario 7s program had an extremely young roster with only 3 returning players,” said Nigel D'Acre, Ontario Jr. Blues Sevens Boys Head Coach. “We have 9 players returning from last Gold Medal winning team and another 7 from the team who finished 4th,” added D’Acre.
The program has expanded from last year, adding four more teams. Ian Fitzgerald, Lead Coach for the Junior Girls Program is excited to see the program growing. “We are extremely fortunate to be adding in U16/18 programs heading to Tropical 7s in April 2019,” said Fitzgerald. “We were also able to create 3 regional sessions (Guelph, Toronto, Ottawa) to help cut travel down for our players,” stated Fitzgerald.
The Sevens Program staff is made up of nine coaches, who have been working hard over the past two months to put together the teams.
“We are really excited about the staff that we have put together this year,” stated Khalil Ajarn Lead Program Manager. Ajarn added “As a group we’ve been working hard to assemble a comprehensive list of the top 7s athletes in the province, with player representation from all four major branches, in addition to some hidden gems from some of the high school leagues.”
The teams first training session will be December 15th. Rosters for all eight teams can be found below.
2019 Jr Blues – Boys 7s Long List *- returning player
| Alex Kropman* | Ajax Wanderers |
| Alexander Lee | Ajax Wanderers |
| Andrew Scott | Aurora Barbarians |
| Armand Pienaar* | Oshawa Vikings |
| Bailey Mason | Mississauga Blues |
| Ben Logan | Toronto Saracens |
| Braden Bruce* | Peterborough Pagans |
| Brendan McKerrow | Crusaders |
| Calvin Fogler | Guelph Redcoats |
| Campbell Hunter* | Toronto Saracens |
| Carson Young* | Oshawa Vikings |
| Christian Trianni* | Markham Irish |
| Cody Nhanala* | Ottawa Opsreys |
| Cole Hutt | Ottawa Irish |
| David Adeleye | Bytown Blues |
| Dawson Smith | Kingston Panthers |
| Declan Hoy | Aurora Barbarians |
| Duncan Philips* | Ottawa Irish |
| Dylan DiGirolamo* | Aurora Barbarians |
| Emil Serb | Markham Irish |
| Ethan Callaway | Markham Irish |
| Finlay Biggar | Crusaders |
| Geoff Tomlinson | Aurora Barbarians |
| Gianpaolo Fortino | |
| Glenn Roy | Ottawa Irish |
| Harry Lutumba Mpongo | Toronto Buccaneers |
| Harry Shaw* | Crusaders |
| Hunter Durand | Metro Rugby Alliance |
| Hussein Al-Obeid | Bytown Blues |
| Ian Bailey | Sarina Saints |
| Ian Jones | Oshawa Vikings |
| Jackson Kerr* | Toronto Saracens |
| Jacob Ince | Crusaders |
| James Topping | Crusaders |
| James Webb | Metro Rugby Alliance |
| Jayden Boxwell | Waterloo County |
| Joshua Dusome | Oshawa. Vikings |
| Justin Taylor | Ajax Wanderers |
| Kal Sager | Peterborough Pagans |
| Kalen Haggarty | Oshawa Vikings |
| Kalle White | Barrhaven Scottish |
| Kieran Blair | Ottawa Beavers |
| Killian Fortier | Metro Rugby Alliance |
| Kobe Faust | Oshawa Vikings |
| Kyle Corrigan | Ottawa Ospreys |
| Liam Bowman* | Crusaders |
| Lucas Vanderburg* | Aurora Barbarians |
| Luke Bagshaw | Brock |
| Mac Reimer | Ajax Wanderers |
| Muiredach Casey | Barrhaven Scottish |
| Nash Ramsey* | Stoney Creek Camels |
| Prince Ndukwe | TIRF |
| Rhys Patterson* | Markham Irish |
| Sam Reimer | Ajax Wanderers |
| Sam Shearer | Aurora Barbarians |
| Sean Snyman | Crusaders |
| William Pilat-Cumberbatch | Toronto Buccaneers |
| Cole Ferraro | Oshawa Vikings |
| Liam Droeske | Waterloo County |
| Reuban Bowley | Fergus Highlanders |
| James Neale | Toronto Saracens |
| Sam Marler | Oshawa Vikings |
2019 Jr Blues – Girls 7s Long List *-returning player
| Abbey Anderson | Norfolk Harvesters |
| Abbey Wade | Crusaders |
| Ali Rupar | Ottawa Irish |
| Angelina McCuaig | Toronto Dragons |
| Anjali Jagannathan | Oshawa Vikings |
| Aurora Bowie | Markham Irish |
| Avery Wettlaufer | Mississauga |
| Bre Martey | Ottawa Irish |
| Caitlin Crichton | Ottawa Irish |
| Chihinga Roest | Norfolk Harvesters |
| Chloe Daniels | Aurora Barbarians |
| Claire File | Crusaders |
| Daniella Michaud | Norfolk Harvesters |
| Danika Johnson | Oshawa Vikings |
| Eden Kilgour | Barrie |
| Elliah DeGazon | Crusaders |
| Emilie Clark | Mississauga Blues |
| Emilie Ethier | Ottawa Ospreys |
| Emily Butterworth | Toronto Saracens/Amazons |
| Emma Scott | Norfolk Harvesters |
| Emma Woods | Oshawa Vikings |
| Grace Jacklyn | Brantford Harlequins |
| Holly Bonney Brookman | Fergus Highlanders |
| Isabelle Grise | Kingston Panthers |
| Izzy Delombre | Crusaders |
| Izzy Ruse | Guelph Redcoats |
| Jill Cope | Aurora Barbarians |
| Joleen Mason | Belleville Bulldogs |
| Julia Gregory | London St. George |
| Kate McNaughton | Markham Irish |
| Katie McLeod | Aurora Barbarians |
| Kennedy Queen | Guelph Redcoats |
| Lizzie Gibson | Crusaders |
| Lizzie Schori | London St. George |
| Lyla Ridsdale | Brantford Harlequins |
| Maddie Hobson | Waterloo County |
| Maddy Donnelly | Peterborough Pagans |
| Maddy Thompson | Oshawa Vikings |
| Megan Dyer | Belleville Bulldogs |
| Megan Robertson | Ajax Wanderers |
| Natalie Armatage | Waterloo County |
| Nicole Gamm | Toronto Nomads |
| Olivia Hooper | Barrie |
| Olivia Sarabura | Guelph Redcoats |
| Quynh-Ni Tran | Ottawa Ospreys |
| Reese Morgan | Toronto Amazons |
| Regan Casey | Ottawa Irish |
| Riley Rewakoski | Oshawa Vikings |
| Sierra Austin | Oshawa Vikings |
| Siobhan Sheerin | Toronto Saracens |
| Victoria Stanley | Toronto Amazons |
ABOUT THE ONTARIO BLUES
The Ontario Blues program is the high performance representative program for male and female rugby players in Ontario. Rugby Ontario is represented at the provincial level by the Ontario Blues. The program includes representative teams from Under-15 to Senior in both Women’s and Men’s Fifteens and Under-18 Men's and Women's Sevens. Specifically, the program is designed to develop and showcase rugby players for Canadian representative national teams.
ABOUT RUGBY ONTARIO
Rugby Ontario is the provincial sports governing body responsible for the organization of rugby in Ontario. Our mission is to establish a stronger identity for rugby in Ontario by promoting the sport’s core values and by fostering a culture of inclusiveness and excellence on and off the field of play.
To learn more, visit https://www.rugbyontario.com/
WANT MORE INFORMATION?
Program Lead: Khalil Ajram- ka009@hotmail.com
Rugby Ontario High Performance Staff
Sean Medeiros - smedeiros@rugbyontario.com
Paul Connelly - pconnelly@rugbyontario.com
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