Written by RUGBYMag Staff    Thursday, 07 June 2012 20:35    PDF Print Write e-mail
RUGBYMag 7s All Americans
Sevens - Collegiate Sevens

The RUGBYMag 7s All Americans are a collection of players we've seen play 7s. Surely, there are guys on other teams who have the skills to excel at the abbreviated game, but if they didn't do it on more than one occasion for their college team, they were going to have a hard time making this list.

Two guys who overcame that hurdle were Nate Augspurger and Dom Mauer. Both play regularly and in big roles for two of the best men's teams in the country, and that was good enough to get them mentioned.

We took conference, open qualification, CRC qualifying, College 7s Nationals and CRC tournaments all into account, and just because a player's injured doesn't rule mean he's out of contention. We're not picking a group 12 to play in a tournament, we're picking who we think were the best 12 were this season. 

FIRST TEAM
JP Eloff Davenport
Nate Brakeley Dartmouth
Cam Dolan Life
Brad Harrington Cal
Madison Hughes Dartmouth
Kingsley McGowan St. Mary's
Zac Mizell Arkansas State
Don Pati Utah
Tim Stanfill Central Washington
Trevor Tanifum Maryland
Brett Thompson Arizona
Peter Tiberio  Arizona

SECOND TEAM
Tim Acker Kutztown
Nate Augspurger Minnesota 
Paul Benade Arkansas State
Patrick Blair Central Washington
Paul Bosco Cal
Colton Cariaga Life
Derek Fish Dartmouth
Bubba Jones St. Mary's
Luke Lahman Colorado
Tonata Lauti Utah
Glen Maricelli Life
Danie Swanepoel Arkansas State

HONORABLE MENTION
Ryan Hargraves  Davenport
Bobby Impson  Oklahoma 
Danny James   Utah
Seamus Kelly  Cal
Jimmy Kowalski  Delaware
Eric Luikens  Texas
Dominic Mauer  Bowling Green
Jake McFadden  Life 
Landis Nasser  Cal Poly
Andrew Nelson  Central Washington 
Seamus Siefring  Navy
Michael St. Clair  Stony Brook