After third-place finishes at the first two World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series in Dubai and Brazil, Team Canada and Williams Lake’s Kayla Moleschi sit third in the overall standings heading into this weekend’s Atlanta Sevens March 14-15.
The top four teams at the end of the season will automatically qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics. While making a few tweaks to the lineup, Canada head coach John Tait seems confident in a core of nine players heading forward this season.
Bianca Farella, Julia Greenshields, Jennifer Kish, Ghislaine Landry, Mandy Marchak, Moleschi, Karen Paquin, Kelly Russell and Ashley Steacy have been named to all three tournaments.
“These players have been the most consistent in their performance this season, but our training group is becoming more competitive each week which is pushing that performance bar higher for the entire group,” Tait said. “It really has made selection tougher each time.”
Canada kicks off its tournament March 14 versus Brazil at 9:44 a.m., before meeting China at 12:228 p.m., then wrapping up its day against England at 6:12 p.m. Day two’s schedule will be based around the first day’s results. All matches will be streamed live at www.worldrugby.org/womens-sevens-series.