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Agustín Ormaechea will not play for Uruguay next month. The veteran of 51 test caps and 2 Rugby World Cups has been ruled out of October’s test matches through injury. Ormaechea was the starting scrum-half for Los Teros in July. Uruguay defeated Chile and Brazil in Montevideo to secure the …

Chile have named a preliminary senior ‘A’ squad of 32 players for the upcoming Americas Pacific Challenge. The group will be reduced to 28 ahead of the tournament that begins on October 22 in Montevideo, with matches against the development sides from Paraguay, Uruguay, and the USA. While tournament rules …

William Waguespack and Ross Depperschmidt have each re-signed with NOLA for the 2022 Major League Rugby season. It will be the fifth year in Gold for local product and USA u20 cap Waguespack, and the fourth for Texas native and USA South Panthers select Depperschmidt. This past season started slowly …

Nakai Penny has signed a three-year contract extension with the Seattle Seawolves. The new deal sees the Canadian international through the 2024 Major League Rugby season. He has appeared in each of the club’s four campaigns including a starting role in the 2019 Championship Final. Having established himself as the …

Lockie Kratz has agreed a two-year extension with NOLA Gold that will see him stay in Louisiana through the 2023 Major League Rugby season. The newly-capped Canadian international follows fellow first-year professional Andrew Guerra in re-signing for the club. Kratz was a late addition to the club this year, securing …

Venues for the next round of Americas region World Cup Qualifiers have now been set. The two series’ will determine which team takes the Americas 1 title and which two move on to the Americas 2 series, with the loser of Chile and Canada eliminated. Match dates are identical for …

Isadora Cerullo is the first international Olympian to join Premier Rugby Sevens. The Premier Rugby Sevens is a new USA-based Rugby Sevens league. It will be launched on October 09 in Memphis, Tennessee. It will be live via FS2 from 4pm-6pm Eastern. The Brazilian 2016 and 2021 Olympian is the …

Maya Learned is the latest North American international to make the move across to England’s Premier 15s. The USA Eagles prop has signed on with Gloucester-Hartpury for the remainder of the season in the build-up to next year’s World Cup in New Zealand. Learned, 25, was a High School and …

The Dallas Jackals have announced the signing of loose forward Charlie McKill for the 2022 Major League Rugby season. Born in Scotland but raised in Australia, the 26-year-old arrives from the Shute Shield in Sydney where he was vice-captain of the Warringah Rats. McKill played 8 games for Warringah during …

Johan Momsen will be staying on with Rugby ATL. The South African second row has signed a new three-year deal with the Eastern Conference Champions that keeps him at the Snake Pit through the end of the 2024 Major League Rugby season. After impressing in the truncated 2020 campaign, Momsen …