Strikers Rugby Release
The Strikers Rugby second combine impressed the coaches. Andres Diaz is the sixth player signed by the approximately 70 plus athletes that attended.
Andres attended St. Thomas High School and Texas A&M University. He was a Texas Selects player and Junior All-American. Diaz is a former Houston Athletic Rugby Club – HARC player.
Other players signed following the second combine include Willie Perry-Jackson, Kieran Farmer, Conor Mills, LaThaddeus Hill Jr., and Colton Pederson.
Coaches Justin Fitzpatrick, Sam Windsor and Matt Trouville have been hard at work building a talented team that hopes to contend when the 2018 Major League Rugby season begins. They have been also developing the Academy and have been doing community outreach.
Strikers Rugby
- Justin Fitzpatrick – Head Coach
- Sam Windsor – Backs Coach, Flyhalf
- Matt Trouville – Academy Director, Backrow
- Charlie Hewitt – Lock
- Jake Turnbull – Prop
- Adam Macklin – Tighthead Prop
- Jackson Slater – Lock
- Kyle Sumsion – Flanker
- Christopher Slater –Wing
- Cody Jones – Prop
- Diego Armando Maquieira – Hooker
- Pagopagohokma Taeaomua Haini – Backrow
- Zach Pangelinan – Fullback
- Oscar Kolinisau – Center
- Estevan Florez – Prop
- Johnny Marcel Harrison – Wing
- Cecil Garber IV – Flanker
- Colton Pederson – Backrow
- Craig Whitlock – Backrow
- Malacchi Esdale – Center
- LaThaddeus Hill Jr. – Wing
- Conor Mills – Flyhalf
- Kieran Farmer – Flyhalf
- Willie Perry-Jackson – Wing
- Andres Diaz – Flanker
- Josua Vici – Wing
- Chris Parker – Lock
- Chris Milledge – Scrumhalf
- Kenneth Hepburn – Flanker
- Dan Paul – Wing
- Robert Meeson – Lock
- Jack Riley – Prop
- Lindsey Stevens – Hooker
- Art Reyes – Wing
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