11/26/2016 Atlantis Collegiate Men at NY Sevens

(Atlantis tournament #159)
Joe Kelly Sr., compiled by Emil Signes
DECEMBER 4, 2016 (rev. December 23, 2016 00:06)

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This Atlantis team composed players from 12 different college programs. They are:

Atlantis #	First Name	Last Name	College	Ht in.	Wt lbs	Age yrs
1238	Scott	Atkinson	Ohio State	71	190	21.6
1239	Luke	Bienstock	Dartmouth	73	200	18.9
1240	Kamari	Charles	NYC College of Technology	72	175	18.8
1241	Jack	dePortere	Providence College	71	180	19.1
1242	Ryan	Hercules	Life University	71	234	18.5
1062	Rob	Irimescue	Penn State	72	210	20.7
1154	Gardy	Lebon	Navy	71	205	20.9
1243	Greg	McTiernan	St. Joseph's (PA)	72	180	21.2
1144	Soh	Nakayama	Keio U. (Japan)	68	150	18.7
1244	Bryce	Stanback	Iona College	68	170	19.0
1245	Erick	Tack	Maryland	73	195	21.2
1246	Jack	Weigold	U. California	74	230	19.2

Manager: Joe Kelly Sr.; Coaches: Joe Kelly Jr. & Omar Rivera

Atlantis, coached by Joe Kelly, Joe Kelly Jr (Penn St injured) and the famous Omar Rivera (Atlantis #520) compiled an extremely strong team made up of local athletes who came through Greenwich's local 7s programs and now play for some of the best college rugby programs in the country. Eight formerly played for Greenwich HS 7s, 2 Play Rugby USA alumni. One Ridge Rugby and a Fairfield Prep product all contributed. Everyone has either played with and/or against each other over the years at the high school level.

Atlantis 36 New Blue 5. The boys came together on the day and had to figure out how to make a team out of 12 players from 12 different schools. The first game was against New Blue and as if they have been practicing for months it all came together. Atlantis over New Blue 36-5.

Atlantis 55 Mitchell College (CT) 0. The boys really started working together for a resounding victory.

Atlantis 50 Stony Brook B 0. Stony Brook, as always, was well coached, but their second side was overwhelmed in this game.

Atlantis 31 McGill University 5. This was a nice victory as McGill is an outstanding team from Montreal.

Atlantis 24 Stony Brook 12. Well prepared by legendary coach Jerry Mirro (Atlantis #14), Stony Brook easily found their way into the finals. The final match was exciting and close until Atlantis finally pulled ahead for the victory.

Joe Kelly has now organized and coached two different Atlantis Collegiate Men's teams, and their record is 10-0, with two NY Sevens championships. In those 10 games, points for 330, points against 38. Not too shabby.

Here's the team at the victory station:

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Atlantis Collegiate Men, 2016 New York 7s Champions

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