One of the New England players who participated in the recent Las Vegas Sevens Rugby tournament was Danny Collins of Boston College High School. Danny represented the USA High School All-Americans, a squad that entered two teams in the International High School Elite 7’s division. For the uninitiated, sevens rugby is a scaled down version of the more popular 15 a side version, though still played on the same size field. Its recent inclusion in the Rio Olympics in 2016 is fuelling a worldwide increase in interest in the abbreviated version.
Danny earned his place on the team as a result of his performance in the High School All-American camp held in Arizona over the Christmas break. Also attending that camp from New England were fellow BC High player Matt Edwards and St. John’s Prep/Mystic River’s Chris Laughlin. Despite having no experience playing sevens, Danny was named to the HSAA second squad for Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas tournament was very competitive, Danny reports, but the USA AA’s performed well, with the first squad making it all the way to the Championship game before falling to British Columbia. The second squad lost an early game to Washington State All- Stars before rebounding with a win over Ontario. The Canadian sides especially were much more experienced at the sevens game, as they play regularly in this format.
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Danny is in Ireland at the moment, where he is doing a semester in Belvedere College Dublin. “It’s been great. We’ve been playing two games a week since I got here in January, one Wednesday and one Saturday. The competition is very good and it’s a lot of fun playing with kids that have been playing forever….it’s a bit different than at BC High, but we have been lucky to have really good coaches at BC High in Damian Dowling and Stu Abbott to teach us the game”. Danny seems to be enjoying his time in Ireland, saying the whole experience has been “unbelievable”.