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WI team for Hong Kong Sevens conducted final trials last Thursday
-Burrell, Jones, McKenzie not present, but eligible for selection
Kevin McKenzie
Joe Whipple
The Rugby West Indies Sevens team currently preparing to participate in the upcoming IRB Hong Kong Sevens Series will take on Africa’s top team, Kenya in their first game on March 27.
The team which held their final trials session last Thursday in Barbados, is drawn in an opening round Pool with Kenya, USA and Scotland.
The Hong Kong Sevens World Series will feature national teams from South Africa, England, New Zealand, Argentina, Fiji, Kenya, France, Wales, Australia, Portugal, Samoa, USA, Uruguay, Japan, Zimbabwe, Tonga, Canada, Scotland, Korea, China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong and the West Indies.
Nineteen of the West Indies players from Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman, Guyana, St. Vincent & the Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago arrived in Barbados to participate in the final GT&T sponsored three-day training camp under Head Coach, Joe Whipple.
UK-based players, Jamaicans Luther Burrell and James Jones and Ireland-based Guyanese, Kevin McKenzie are unavailable for the camp, but will be considered for selection on the team.
NAWIRA’s Regional Development Officer, Scott Harland, will partake in the camp, while President of the West Indies Rugby Union (WIRU), Kit Nascimento is expected to join the Camp today.
WIRU is scheduled to announce the final 11-man squad for Hong Kong on March 3. The team will then travel to Canada to join a three day camp with the national side in Vancouver, before departing for Hong Kong on March 22.
Head Coach Whipple believes that the Team is extremely well prepared for the Hong Kong event, having played successfully in build-up tournaments in Trinidad & Tobago’s International Sevens in December and the Punta del Este Sevens in Uruguay in January.
The West Indies team is sponsored by Butterfield Bank, Conyers Dill & Pearman and Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Co.
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