Always one of the main draws of the Rosslyn Park HSBC National School 7s, the Colts competition sees a whopping 192 teams compete over 2 days.
As ever the competition takes place on the Wednesday and Thursday, the 23rd and 24th, and in 2022 will see each of the group winners progress to an elimination round at the end of Day 1.
On Day 2 the winners of those elimination round games will be divided into eight Cup Pools of three, with the winners of those groups then progressing to the quarter finals, semi finals, and final.
St Peter’s York won the competition back in 2019 and have a tough draw in 2022, meeting The Oratory, Ipswich, and QES Barnet in Group A. Over in Group VV are the side they beat in that 2019 final, Millfield. Their draw sees them up against Tiffin, Plymouth College, and Belgium’s Waterloo Schools.
U16 Cup Draw – Wednesday 23rd/Thursday 24th March
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
| St Peter’s, York | Hampton | Jumeirah English Speaking School | Hill House |
| The Oratory | Grey Court | Ysgol Gyfun Glantaf | St Paul’s |
| Ipswich | Eton College | Ellesmere College | Royal Alexandra & Albert |
| QES Barnet | Newcastle-Under-Lyme | Epsom College | Bohunt School |
| Group E | Group F | Group G | Group H |
| Clifton College | Taunton | Rugby | QEGS Wakefield |
| Windsor Boys’ | Worth | King Alfred School | Mary Immaculate High |
| Eastbourne College | St Benedict’s | Canford | RGS Guildford |
| Ibstock Place | Reed’s | Colfe’s | Clayesmore |
| Group I | Group J | Group K | Group L |
| Barnard Castle | Gordon’s | Sedbergh | Marlborough College |
| Prior Park College | Bristol Grammar | Mill Hill | Birkenhead |
| Blundell’s | Berkhamsted | Wimbledon College | Scarisbrick Hall |
| Fulham Boys | St Richard Reynolds | The Perse | Orleans Park |
| Group M | Group N | Group O | Group P |
| Brighton College | Warwick | Cheltenham College | Whitgift |
| London Oratory | Emanuel | Shrewsbury | Seaford College |
| Abingdon | Welland Park | Llandovery College | Malvern College |
| George Watson’s | Stanwell | Ysgol Garth Olwg | KES Bath |
| Group Q | Group R | Group S | Group T |
| Beechen Cliff | Llangatwg | Uffculme | RGS Newcastle |
| Colchester RGS | Caterham | Bryn Celynnog | Tonyrefail |
| Dean Close | The Leys | St John’s, Leatherhead | Reigate Grammar |
| Haileybury | Sevenoaks | Dulwich College | Simon Langton |
| Group U | Group V | Group W | Group X |
| Ivybridge | St Olave’s Grammar | Bedford | Harrow |
| Oundle | Shiplake College | St Ambrose College | Sherborne |
| Heathfield | Trinity, Sevenoaks | King’s Canterbury | Framlingham College |
| Yarm | Gresham’s | Pangbourne College | Stockport Grammar |
| Group Y | Group Z | Group AA | Group BB |
| Hurstpierpoint College | Kirkham Grammar | Portsmouth Grammar | Lord Wandsworth College |
| Solihull | Samuel Whitbread | Birkdale | Woodhouse Grove |
| Clongowes Wood | Duke of York’s Royal Military | Magdalen College | Holyrood Academy |
| Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr | Churcher’s College | Woodlands | Campion |
| Group CC | Group DD | Group EE | Group FF |
| Bryanston | Norwich | Bryngwyn | New Hall |
| Sutton Valence | RGS Worcester | Prince Henry’s Grammar | Bradford Grammar |
| Cwmtawe | Cathedral School, Llandaff | Coopers’ Coborn | Haverfordwest High |
| Bedford Modern | Cedars | Wallington County Grammar | King’s College, Taunton |
| Group GG | Group HH | Group II | Group JJ |
| Ysgol Greenhill | Stowe | Wellington College | Ysgol Y Preseli |
| QEH | Lutterworth High | Devonport High | Pocklington |
| Hymers College | Ysgol Bro Edern | Wycliffe College | Bishop Wordsworth’s |
| Durham | Watford Grammar | Monmouth | Wellingborough |
| Group KK | Group LL | Group MM | Group NN |
| Rodillian Academy | KCS Wimbledon | Felsted | Eltham College |
| Embley | Uppingham | Royal Hospital School | Ysgol Dyffryn Aman |
| Penryn College | Wisbech Grammar | King’s Worcester | Stamford |
| KES Birmingham | Trent College | John Fisher | Oakham |
| Group OO | Group PP | Group QQ | Group RR |
| St Edward’s, Oxford | King’s Macclesfield | Cwm Rhymni | Loughborough Grammar |
| Bishop Llandaff | Colston’s | Rydal Penrhos | Monkton Combe |
| Dunottar | Westcliff High | Mountbatten | St Peter’s, Gloucester |
| Boundary Oak | West Monmouth | The Grange | ACS Cobham International |
| Group SS | Group TT | Group UU | Group VV |
| Trinity | Ampleforth College | Bromsgrove | Plymouth College |
| Brynteg | Haberdashers’ Abraham Darby | Haberdashers’ | Waterloo Schools, Belgium |
| Ysgol Harri Tudur | Mount St Mary’s College | Denstone College | Tiffin |
| Sir William Borlase’s | St Joseph’s College | Newbridge | Millfield |