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 (UTC−06:00)
Key to colours in group tablesTeams that advanced to the Cup Quarterfinal
Pool A TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts330011415 +999320110726 +81731025174 −23530030157−1573
Pool B TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts330010819+89932015450+4731024668−225300333104−713
Pool C TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33007429+45932017648+28731028352+315300326130−1043
Knockout stage
Challenge Trophy
MatchesSemi-finals
Eleventh place
Challenge Trophy Final
Fifth place
MatchesSemi-finals
Seventh place
Fifth place
Cup
MatchesQuarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze Final
Cup Final
Tournament placings
PlaceTeam Points 20 18 16 4 14 5 12 6 10
PlaceTeam Points 7 8 8 6 9 4 10 3 11 2 12 1
Source: World Rugby
Players
Scoring leaders
+Tries scored Rank Player Tries 1 Portia Woodman 10 2 Ilona Maher 7 Kristina Seredina 4 Alena Mikhaltsova 6 Michaela Blyde
+Points scored Rank Player Points 1 Portia Woodman 50 2 Emma Sykes (rugby union) 45 3 Ghislaine Landry 43 4 Tyla Nathan-Wong 42 5 Lucy Mulhall 38
Source: World Rugby
See also World Rugby Women's Sevens Series 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series World Rugby
References
External links Tournament site World Rugby info