Australia Sevens stars are ramping up their pre-season forward of the brand new HSBC SVNS Sequence marketing campaign, with a number of frontline stars from the ladies’s workforce set to take the sector on the NextGen 7s Sequence this weekend.
New South Wales are the defending champions, having crushed Queensland in Byron Bay final season to take out the title within the closing spherical. In a four-round competitors, the Waratahs and Reds might be joined by the ACT Brumbies within the battle for championship glory.
Madison Higgins-Ashby, Kaitlin Shave and Sidney Taylor have all been named within the Brumbies squad, which means they’re now simply days away from returning to the sector after unlucky stints on the sideline throughout the 2024/25 season.
These three might be joined by Wallaroos wider squad members Biola Dawa, Lily Bone and Ella Ryan within the Brumbies facet. 25 gamers have been picked in that squad, together with SVNS Sequence regulars Ruby Nicholas and Kahli Henwood.
Teagan Levi and Religion Nathan headline the Reds squad, whereas Alysia Lefau-Fakaosilea can be in line to make a return from a severe knee harm. New Zealand-born Wallaroo Carys Dallinger can be with the Queenslanders, together with rising star Amahli Hala.
As for the defending champions, the Tahs have been bolstered by the inclusions of Sariah Paki and Piper Simons. Simons went from strength-to-strength throughout a powerful season on the SVNS Sequence final season. Latest Wallaroos debutant Waiaria Ellis has additionally been named.
NextGen 7s has been a extremely profitable pathway for the Australia Sevens girls’s facet, with the Levi sisters, Nathan, Higgins-Ashby, Shave and Nicholas all coming by way of that system earlier than starring on the world circuit.
“The ISPS Handa NextGen 7s Sequence exposes future expertise to a high-level competitors alongside athletes who’ve competed on the highest stage,” Rugby Australia’s Head of Ladies’s Pathways Lachlan Parkinson stated in an announcement.
“The inclusion of the ACT Brumbies this yr and gamers from affiliated states exhibits the expansion in this system and the sturdy pathways on supply for gamers and coaches to pick future groups together with for the upcoming Australia A tour in Dubai.
“It additionally permits for a few of our gamers within the nationwide program to return to the sector as a part of their harm comebacks and to get minutes underneath their belt following an prolonged low season.”
NextGen 7s will get underway this weekend at Sunshine Coast Stadium. The second spherical might be held at Sydney’s Forshaw Rugby Park, earlier than the third cease at Brumbies HQ in Canberra. Then, the finals will happen at Brisbane’s Ballymore Stadium on September 13.
Gamers might be launched by Tremendous Rugby golf equipment all through the season.
NextGen 7s squads 2025
ACT Brumbies
- Aaliyah Lomas
- Adelaide Norris
- Ashlea Bishop
- Biola Dawa
- Bonnie Brewer
- Brooklyn Teki-Joyce (Rugby WA)*
- Chioma Enyi
- Ella Ryan
- Emily Hudson
- Fofoa Tulimafono (Rugby VIC)*
- Gabrielle Petersen
- Georgie Hayes
- Jenna Aiono (Rugby VIC)*
- Kahli Henwood
- Kaitlin Shave
- Kyah Little
- Lily Bone
- Madison Higgins-Ashby
- Makenna Ravouvou
- Nicole Ledington (Rugby WA)*
- Paula Lee Going
- Reese Vidle
- Ruby Nicholas
- Sidney Taylor
- Zoe Quigley
NSW Waratahs
- Amelia Whitaker
- Anaia Cruickshank
- Anika McCarthy
- Bridget Clark
- Chanel Williams
- Charli Hardgrave
- Coco Marsters
- Damita Betham
- Darci Turinui
- Darcie Prosser-Shaw
- Edie Burke
- Keira Callaghan
- Khyliah Grey
- Kiiahla Duff
- Lacey Cross
- Logan Lemusu
- Lola Harvison
- Lusiana Vesikula
- Milla Elaro
- Piper Simons
- Poppi Flanders
- Sariah Paki
- Talia Berryman
- Tatum Hen
- Waiaria Ellis
Queensland Reds
- Abbi Spooner
- Alysia Lefau-Fakaosilea
- Amahli Hala
- Amy Lorenz
- Anna Park
- Ava Wereta
- Carys Dallinger
- Charli Nikola
- Dani Martens
- Emmisyn Wynyard
- Evie Sampson
- Religion Nathan
- Kaelyn Passi
- Kianna Maclean
- Madi Collins
- Madison Pomerenke
- Matilda Richards
- Nikeisha Ngaru
- Reese Orcher
- Rhani Hagan
- Tahli Devine
- Tahlia Evans
- Taleah Ackland
- Teagan Levi
- Sophie Duff
- Zoe Waters
ISPS HANDA NEXTGEN 7s SCHEDULE 2025
Spherical 1 – Sunday 3 August – Sunshine Coast Stadium
- 9.30am: Reds v Brumbies
- 11.00am: Waratahs v Reds
- 12.30pm: Brumbies v Waratahs
- 2.00pm: Reds v Brumbies
- 3.30pm: Waratahs v Reds
Spherical 2 – Sunday 17 August – Forshaw Rugby Park, Sydney
- 9.30am: Waratahs v Brumbies
- 11.00am: Reds v Waratahs
- 12.30pm: Brumbies v Reds
- 2.00pm: Waratahs v Brumbies
- 3.30pm: Reds v Waratahs
Spherical 3 – Sunday 31 August 2025 – Brumbies HQ, Canberra
- 9.30am: Brumbies v Reds
- 11.00am: Waratahs v Brumbies
- 12.30pm: Reds v Waratahs
- 2.00pm: Brumbies v Reds
- 3.30pm: Waratahs v Brumbies
Spherical 4 (Finals) – Saturday 13 September – Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane
9.30am: 1st place desk v 2nd place desk
1100am: 2nd place desk v third place desk
12.30pm: 1st place desk v third place desk
2.00pm: 2nd place finals desk v third place finals desk
3.30pm: 1st place finals desk v winner of two v 3
