Volunteers Named to U21 South Team

Tennessee has 4 players that have been selected to particpate with the South U21 team in an international match against the Cayman Island U21 team on January 02. Nick Vigder, Mason Howard, Zack Mobius and Nick Evans will train the last week of December in Tampa, Florida and then board a cruise ship to Cayman for the match.

Official Release -

USA Rugby South is please to announce the following players will be playing against the Cayman Islands on January 2

Nick Evans (Univ of TN), Alex Goff (Ark State Univ), Mason Howard (Univ of TN), Nathan Joseph (Tulane), Alex Jernigan (Middle TN State), John Howard (Univ of S Carolina), Conner Cooke (Ark State Univ), Edward Mienie (Kennesaw State Univ/Stellenbosch), Michael Sapp (Life Univ), Nate Young (GA Tech),Tristan Gray (Boca Raton Men's RFC/Midlands Rugby Academy 2012, Natal S. Africa), Derrick William's (Clemson), Devin Faletto (Brighton Storm/Brighton High School/LIfe Univ 2012), Nicholas Vigder (Univ of TN), Dillon Sauerwein (Ark State Univ), Michael Nell (GA Tech JV. Attends West Hall High), Graham Joseph (UNC-W), Zack Bolsted (Auburn Univ), Vaughan Blacksher (Univ of South Alabama), Brendan Smith (Birmingham Vulcan's), Benjamin Winiarcyzk (Auburn Univ), Zachary Mobius (Univ of TN)

Coaching Staff - Rene Daniel, David Conyers, Jody Hensley, Joshua Ferriell, Brendan Grey
Trainer - Sean Borman
Manager - Joseph Peluso 

The Cayman's Islands have a long tradition of supporting rugby. The Cayman team consisis of many players currently playing in Europe that will be returning for Winter break.

The match be televised locally and in the US the game will be video streamed on the Internet on www.caymanrugbytv.com.

Live training updates will be available on twitter USARSCaymantour.

You can also track the teams progress on facebook.

The Cayman game will kick off at 11:30 EST (10:30 CST "local" time) www.caymanrugbytv.com

In addition to this the U-21 team will arrive in Tampa on Dec 28th for training and have a warm up game on Friday Dec 30th 5pm against Tampa. Location: Bartels Middle School, North Tampa.