There are three girls tournaments at the Rosslyn Park HSBC National School 7s this year, with a new U15 Girls tournament added this year.
The U15s will make their debut on Tuesday 24th March with two groups of six, the winners of each Group facing off in the final.
The other two tournaments are the two U18 tournaments, both taking place on Friday 27th March. The AASE tournament sees six sides split into two groups, the winners of each playing the runner up of the other in a semi finals.
Meanwhile the main Girls tournament features 40 teams. Their first action will be a qualifying round, with the winners heading to the Cup, the losers to the Plate. They will head to 7s groups of three teams each, the winners of which and the best runner up will then head to the quarter finals, from which point the competition will become a knockout, the Plate follows the same format as the Cup.
Prep Schools, Junior Schools, U11s
Girls U15 – Tuesday 24th March
Group A | Group B |
Kings Of Wessex Sports Academy | Whitmore High School |
Ysgol Plasmawr | RGS Worcester |
Epsom College | SKRUM |
Embley | Mountbatten School |
Ysgol Glantaf | Clifton College |
Tonybee School | St Josephs College |
Group A in the girls tournament sees Tonybee, Embley, and Ysgol Plasmawr link up with Kings of Wessex, Epsom College, and Ysgol Glantaf, all of whom have had reasonable success in the U18s in pervious years.
Group B meanwhile sees heavyweight schools in the form of Clifton College, RGS Worcester, and St Joseph’s College joined by Whitmore High, Mountbatten School, and charity side, SKRUM.
Girls AASE – Friday 27th March
Group A | Group B |
Weston College | Exeter College |
Sweden Girls | Hartpury College |
Loughborough College | Worthing College |
Hartpury College won the Girls AASE title again last year, beating Loughborough College in the final, but it was a close run thing, Loughborough actually beat them in the group stages.
They are in separate groups this year though, Loughborough College in Group A alongside Swedish Girls and last year’s Girls Cup winners, Weston College. Meanwhile Hartpury College are in Group B alongside Worthing College and last year’s Girls Cup runners up, Exeter College.
Girls – Friday 27th March
Qualifying Round
Exeter College v St John’s Leatherhead
Llandovery College v Tonbridge GS
Trinity v Wisbech GS
Clyst Vale v Wellington College
Benenden v St Joseph’s College
Gordons v Perins
Gower College v Robert Clack
Ivybridge Community College v Harris City Academy
Langley v Ysgol Dyffryn Aman
Coleg Gwent v Blundell’s
St Helen’s v Oundle
Caterham v Bishop Burton College
Bishop Vesey’s GS v Coleg Sir Gar
Cardinal Newman v Reigate GS
Pembrokeshire College v The Judd
Coleg Gwent Crosskeys v Clifton College
King Henry VIII, Coventry v Neath Port Talbot College
Richard Huish College v Sint-jan Berchmanscollege
Bridgwater & Taunton College v Coleg y Cymoedd
Kings of Wessex v Kingsbridge
Millfield v Epsom College
The qualifying round pits last year’s runners up, Exeter College, against a strong St John’s Leatherhead side, while Tonbridge Grammar face Llandovery College and Wisbech Grammar face Trinity.
Clyst Vale and Wellington College go head to head with Benenden and St Joseph’s College also facing off, Gordons and Perins meet, so too Gower College and Robert Clack.
Look out for Dyffryn Aman, they have had huge success in this tournament and face Langley, while Ivybridge meet Harris City Academy and Blundell’s face Coleg Gwent. Oundle one again are in action and play St Helen’s, with Caterham v Bishop Burton and Bishop Vesey’s v Coleg Sir Gar two other qualifying round games.
Cardinal Newman take on last year’s Plate champions, Reigate Grammar, with Pembrokeshire College up against Judd, Clifton College face Coleg Gwent, with King Henry VIII Coventry up against Neath Port Talbot. Richard Huish face international opposition in the form of Sint-jan Berchmanscollege.
Plate runners up Kings of Wessex face Kingsbridge, while last year’s semi finalists, Epsom College, face Millfield.
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