First Name	Last Name	Atlantis #	Jers. #	Club	Age yr	Ht in	Wt in	Pos'n 7s	Pos'n 15s	Birthplace	Residence
Malery	Billingy	1108	VII	Play Rugby USA Academy (NY)	15	67		14	11,13,14,15	Brooklyn, NY	Brooklyn, NY
Megan	Bird	1109	VIII	Oak Creek HS (WI)	15
Jordan	Cowan	1110	IX	Morris/ NJ Blaze 7s	15	63	140	1,2,3	10,9,2	Johannesburg, RSA	Oak Ridge, NJ
Alexandra	DiMarco	1111	XI	Downingtown (PA)	14	68	150	5-7	10-15	Bryn Mawr, PA	Malvern, PA
Giovanna	Ferguson	1112	XII	Play Rugby USA Academy (NY)	16	65	145	6	7		NY, NY
Maya	Grassi	1113	III	North Penn (PA)	15	62	135	1,2,3	4,5	Ardmore, PA	Ardmore, PA
Emily	Henrich	1114	I	Orchard Park HS (NY)	15	67	145	5,6,1	12,13	Philadelphia,PA	Orchard Park, NY
Allie	Mennella	1115	IV	Morris/ NJ Blaze 7s	15	67	120	7	14	Morristown, PA	Montville, NJ
Jess	Nagie	1116	VI	Morris/ NJ Blaze 7s	15	62	120	7	9	Denville, PA	Succasunna, NJ
Alie	Ramage	1117	V	Morris/ NJ Blaze 7s	15	63	114	6,7	15,14	Morristown, PA	Ledgewood, NJ
Erin	Scott-Williams	1118	X	Summit HS JV (CO)	15				10
Elizabeth	Wilson	1119	II	SYC Ruckettes (VA)	15	67	145	1-3,6	8,7	Knoxville, TN	Springfield, VA

Here are profiles of each player; they are from different sources, thus some with more detail than others:

Malery Wendy Billingy, 15, was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She attends the High School of Fashion Industries. She has been playing rugby for nearly 4 years; she has also participated in track & field, mixed martial arts and lacrosse. Malery's favorite color is black.

Megan Bird, 15, is a tenth grader at Oak Creek HS (WI) where she plays rugby.

Jordan Cowan, 15, was born in South Africa and therefore has rugby in her blood. She lived in Munich, Germany for 7 years before moving to the USA 4 years ago. She plays for Morris Rugby (and NJ Blaze 7s) and plays various positions.  She also plays Varsity field hockey for her school, Jefferson Township HS (NJ).

Alex DiMarco, 14, is a freshman at Episcopal Academy, and plays for the Downington Rugby Club (PA). She represented the Rugby PA All Stars at the New York Sevens in 2014.  She also plays soccer and lacrosse. (Emil note: I coached her father Wayne when he played for Philadelphia/Whitemarsh.)

Giovanna Ferguson is the captain and oldest player on the team, having turned 16 the week before we played; from Brooklyn, she is a junior at Brooklyn Technical HS. At her middle school, I.S. 392, rugby was introduced to her with many different variations, then developed into flag rugby.  She is currently Play Rugby USA's Academy Captain looking after both the U19 Girls team and Boys team.  Under her there are two playing Captains (a boy and a girl). Gio plays flanker in 15s and center in 7s and leadership, defense and ball carrying are her strengths. She was part of Play Rugby USA's state winning side and 2 summer series 7s League wins.  She was selected for the NJ/NY All Star team in the summer of 2014.

Maya Grassi, 15, is a freshman at Haverford HS (PA) and plays for the North Penn Valkyries. She has been playing since 6th grade as a scrum half/fly half. She also plays softball. Maya got involved because her older sister played and her father coaches (Emil note: I coached her father Rob when he played for Philadelphia/Whitemarsh).  Rugby PA All Star player.

Emily Henrich is a 15 year old 9th grader at Orchard Park (a suburb of Buffalo, NY) HS and she plays for Orchard Park Rugby Club.  After watching both her mommy and daddy play rugby as a child, her own rugby career began as a 6 year old playing flag rugby over the border in Canada (for the Niagara Wasps). She is a competitive freestyle skier and also plays soccer and basketball for her high school.

Emil's note: I coached both Emily's parents - Chris at Philadelphia/Whitemarsh in the late 90s and Lisa for Atlantis (#331) in 1996; Emily is the first daughter of a female Atlantis player to also represent Atlantis.  I wrote a little article on their joint participation in the 2014 NY 7s: http://www.atlantisrugby.com/news/atlantis-mom-daughter-star-olde-love-ny-sevens-social-division-champions.

Allie Mennella, 15, is a sophomore at Montville Township High School.  She plays for Morris Rugby (15s)  and NJ Blaze (7s): Morris Rugby won the state championship the past two years and placed 2nd at nationals in the B division.  NJ Blaze won the high school division of the CRCs this year.

Allie has been playing rugby since she was five with the Montville Wanderers flag rugby program, moving along to tackle rugby as a freshman in high school.  She played travel soccer from 2nd - 8th grades and also plays soccer for Montville Township High School, but rugby is her main sport.  Allie also loves to cook!

Jessica Nagie is a 15-year-old tenth grader at Roxbury High School in New Jersey, and plays for Morris Rugby Club. She started rugby at the flag level at age 6 and has been in love with the sport ever since.  She also plays the trombone and is involved in numerous musical pursuits.

Alie Ramage, 15, is a freshman at Roxbury High School and plays for Morris Rugby / NJ Blaze. She also plays soccer, track and gymnastics. She got involved after watching her sister (Kat Ramage, Atlantis #974 and HS All American) play for two years. Her first rugby game was a complete surprise, the team was at a tournament in Maryland (winter of 2013) and short a few players, Tess Feury (Atlantis #971) called asking Alie to make the four hour drive and join the team for the weekend - three weeks after her practice. She's been playing and loving the sport ever since.

Erin Scott-Williams turned 15 just days before the Las Vegas Invitational. She's a freshman at Summit HS in Breckenridge, CO and plays flyhalf for their JV team.

Elizabeth Wilson, 15, has played on U19 tackle rugby teams since she was in the 7th grade. She also played 4 years of touch rugby beginning at the age of 8. Liz currently plays for the U19 SYC Ruckettes, a 15 player rugby union side in Virginia that is coached by Matt Estes. The SYC Ruckettes were the 2014 Virginia State Champions. Liz was the MVP of the 2014 Challenge Cup in Pittsburgh, PA, at the Eastern Regional All Stars Rugby tournament.  She was also the youngest player to participate in the 2014 USA Stars and Stripes camp in Colorado. Elizabeth also played travel soccer for 9 years.

Gm	Type	W /L/ T	Atlantis	PF	Opponent (all Senior HS or U-19 teams)	PA
1	Pool	W	Atlantis GU16	36	Mavericks (AB)	5
2	Pool	W	Atlantis GU16	10	Ft. Collins (CO)	0
3	Pool	L	Atlantis GU16	0	Rugby Ontario 1	30
4	Plate QF	W	Atlantis GU16	27	Tennessee Tri Stars	5
5	Plate SF	W	Atlantis GU16	41	No. Side Lady Dragons (CO)	0
6	Plate Final	L	Atlantis GU16	17	Shawnigan Lake School (BC)	20
Tot		4-2		131		60

The U-16 girls ran into the South African men's national 7s team, the Blitzbokke, on the streets of Las Vegas, and are pictured in the Bokke pre-event highlight video: click on the image below to see the video.





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Anything you care to write up, Ryszard, Lisa ... I'll intersperse my comments but make it clear who is speaking when ...

These are the pictures I've chosen in chronological order

1 - Mavericks (game 1)
2-Ft Collins - one of these, between 2 and 5, is the black and gold - the rest are Mavericks and Shawnigan Lake (final)
3-Ontario
4-TN Tri Stars
5-Lady Dragons
6-Shawnigan

Here are pictures --- I'll put them among text once there's text ...  (and there won't be any pink writing) (BTW I can make these any size I want to, so some I'll put together, left and right, some I'll make bigger, etc)



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Videos. There are at least two articles on the web worth reading:

http://playrugbyusa.com/play-rugby-usa-makes-a-splash-at-vegas-7s
and
http://goffrugbyreport.com/news/atlantis-u16s-exceed-expectations

And here is a highlight video on Emily Henrich, a member of our team:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcx3OtISwTQ

Here are the game videos, cut down to Ball-in-Play:

1. Atlantis U-16 girls vs. Mavericks (AB)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88898/2015-02-Atlantis-at-LVI/Sq219-Atlantis-GU16-g1-MVI_0035-Mavericks-50pct-BiP.mp4
2. Atlantis U-16 girls vs. Ft. Collins (CO)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88898/2015-02-Atlantis-at-LVI/Sq219-Atlantis-GU16-g2-MVI_0092-FtCollins-50pct-BiP.mp4
3. Atlantis U-16 girls vs. Rugby Ontario 1
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88898/2015-02-Atlantis-at-LVI/Sq219-Atlantis-GU16-g3-MVI_0215-Ontario1-50pct-BiP.mp4
4. Atlantis U-16 girls vs. Tennessee Tri-Stars
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88898/2015-02-Atlantis-at-LVI/Sq219-Atlantis-GU16-g4-MVI_0270-TN-50pct-BiP.mp4
5. Atlantis U-16 girls vs. North Side Lady Dragons
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88898/2015-02-Atlantis-at-LVI/Sq219-Atlantis-GU16-g5-MVI_0419-Dragons-50pct-BiP.mp4
6. Atlantis U-16 girls vs. Shawnigan Lake School (BC)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88898/2015-02-Atlantis-at-LVI/Sq219-Atlantis-GU16-g6-MVI_0448-Atlantis-LakeShawnigan-50pct-BiP.mp4