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The USA Sevens is a rugby sevens tournament held annually during March in the United States. The USA Sevens is the largest annual rugby competition in North America, drawing over 60,000 fans, and is broadcast live in the United States by ESPN. The USA Sevens was introduced in 2004, originally in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California.
The USA Rugby Club 7s National Championship is the top annual American rugby sevens competition organized by USA Rugby. It involves the best sixteen men's and women's clubs (32 clubs total) in the United States.
2016 June rugby union tests Italy [463] 227 June 25, 2016 Russia: 25 0 Bonney Field: Sacramento, California: 2016 June rugby union tests United States [464] 228 November 12, 2016 Romania: 10 23 Stadionul Arcul de Triumf: Bucharest, Romania: 5,000 2016 end-of-year rugby union internationals Romania [465] [466] [467] 229 November 19, 2016 Tonga ...
The earliest records of an American national rugby sevens team are from the 1986 and 1988 Hong Kong Sevens, where a team named the American Eagles won the Plate Final. [2] The team competed as the United States national rugby sevens team at the inaugural 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens.
Rugby union participation in the U.S. has grown significantly in recent years, growing by 350% between 2004 and 2011. [3] A 2010 survey by the National Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association ranked rugby union as the fastest-growing sport in the U.S. [4] Rugby union is the fastest growing college sport and sport in general in the United States.
The Collegiate Rugby Championship (CRC) is an annual college rugby sevens tournament. The CRC began as the highest profile college rugby sevens competition in the United States, with the tournament broadcast live on NBC from 2010 to 2017, on ESPN News and ESPN3 from 2018 to 2019, The Rugby Network in 2021 and 2023, and on CBS Sports in 2022.
2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens; Tournament details; Host nation 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens: Dates: 9 – 11 September 2022: No. of nations: 24: Final positions; Champions Fiji: Runner-up New Zealand: Third place Ireland: Tournament statistics; Matches played: 52: Tries scored: 276 (average 5.31 per match) Top scorer(s) Brock Webster (35) Most ...
It periodically serves as the regional qualifying competition for the World Cup Sevens and the Rugby sevens at the Olympics. In the early years of the competition the tier two teams from North America ( Canada , United States ) did not always participate or only sent representative sides outside of tournaments for World Cup qualification ( 2012 ...