2018 USA Women's Sevens


The 2018 USA Women's Sevens was the first tournament of the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. It was played on 20–21 October 2018 at Infinity Park in Glendale, Colorado, the first time the USA Women's Sevens was held at the venue.

Format

The teams were drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team played every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/Plate brackets while the top 2 third place teams also competed in the Cup/Plate. The other teams from each group played-off for the Challenge Trophy.

Teams

Eleven core teams participated in the tournament along with one invited team, Mexico:

Pool stage

All times in Mountain Daylight Time

Pool A

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Knockout stage

Challenge Trophy

Matches

Semi-finals
Eleventh place
Challenge Trophy Final

Fifth place

Matches

Semi-finals
Seventh place
Fifth place

Cup

Matches

Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze Final
Cup Final

Tournament placings

PlaceTeamPoints
20
18
16
414
512
610

PlaceTeamPoints
78
86
94
103
112
121

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Players

Scoring leaders

RankPlayerTries
1 Portia Woodman10
2 Ilona Maher7
2 Kristina Seredina7
4 Alena Mikhaltsova6
4 Michaela Blyde6

RankPlayerPoints
1 Portia Woodman50
2 Emma Sykes45
3 Ghislaine Landry43
4 Tyla Nathan-Wong42
5 Lucy Mulhall38

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