Atlantis Boys,
Girls go 11-6 @ North American Invitational
Emil
Signes
Background and
Summary
Salt Lake City, July 29-30,
2016. Atlantis fielded three sides in the Elite High
School U18 Division at the incredibly high-level North American
Invitational sevens tournament in Salt Lake City on July 29 and
30, 2016: a girls U18 side, and two boys' sides, one U18 and one
U17. Although there was no U17 bracket, members of one of
our boys' teams were all at least one year younger than their
bracket's U18 criteria, looking forward to, as well as success
this year, success next year, when all these players will still be
eligible.
The boys had an undefeated first day, and in Saturday's quarters,
but both fell in the semifinals and met each other in the 3rd
place game. We had hoped to meet each other in the
tournament's last round, but were shooting for gold and not
bronze.
Keith McLean, one of the boys' coaches, provided a team-full of
Atlantis pork-pie hats, and here are the two teams of HS boys at a
local mall for lunch, showing off their high fashion accessories:
as well as the hat, a T shirt with Roman numerals spelling out the
year of Atlantis' founding (MCMLXXXVI) and a classical Greek
temple architecturally designed so that four columns in the shape
of a "VII" are perfectly supporting the pediment.
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Atlantis boys combined.jpg
Atlantis Boys (both teams) at Thursday Lunch
Top, L to R:
Middle (one person):
Bottom, L to R:
The girls' team lost a ton of its original players to the HS All
American teams that crushed Canada in MD on the same day as the
NAI 7s. Nevertheless, we filled those spots with great athletes
who lacked only the experience of the original squad. Our girls
came together more quickly than most would expect, and only a
tough 7-5 loss to Play Rugby resulted in a 4th place finish.
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Atlantis Girls Showing Off the Numbers they will wear
Top, L to R: Diane Ramage, Maddie Deaton, Julia Riekena, Lauren
Buchholz, Ariana Ramsey,
Grace dePoortere, Gabbi Hall
Bottom, L to R: Emil Signes, Kelsey Svaasand, Carly McMahon,
Alex Pipkin, Kathleen Dzaran, Cheyenne Staab,
Loren Lewis, Kevin Corley
The teams' combined won-lost record was 11-6.
Boys U17
Click here
for a link to an article on the Boys' U17 games.
Boys U18
Click here
for a link to the Boys' U18 games
Girls U18
Click here
for a link to the Girls' U18 games.
It's always tough getting pictures of all squads together because
everyone is warming up, etc, at different times. So -
immediately after the boys' 3rd-4th place match I raced around to
get all the girls to jump in the picture, BUT except for Julia,
Grace and Kelsey, they had all left... After all these years,
you'd think I'd figure it out... :( ...
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Both boys' teams (after 3rd place match) and the only three
remaining girls (Julia, Grace and Kelsey)
