Three Loughborough Lightning players have been selected in the USA squad for their 2025 spring test match schedule, including a USA v Japan fixture and the three-match Pacific Four Series.
Alev Kelter, Bulou Mataitoga and Kathryn Treder are included in head coach Sione Fukofuka and will assemble at the Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center on April 14 ahead of the upcoming spring matches. This will also serve as the first competition block for players to put their hand up for Rugby World Cup selection.
The action will get underway with home matches against Japan on Saturday, 26 April in Los Angeles at Wallis Annenberg Stadium on UCLA campus, followed by the kick off of the Pacific Four Series in Kansas City where the USA Women’s Eagles take on Canada on Friday 2 May at CPKC Stadium.
The team will then travel overseas to Australia where they will play the Wallaroos in Canberra’s Gio Stadium on 17 May, before landing in New Zealand to take on the Black Ferns Saturday 24 May 24 at the North Harbour Stadium in Auckland.
USA Women’s Eagles Player Pool | Spring 2025 Tour
Hope Rogers (Exeter Chiefs)
Maya Learned (Denver Onyx)
Charli Jacoby (Exeter Chiefs/Queensland Reds)
Keia Mae Sagapolu (Leicester Tigers/ACT Brumbies)
Catie Benson (Sale Sharks/Boston Banshees)
Alivia Leatherman (Trailfinders/Twin Cities Gemini)
Kathryn Treder (Loughborough Lightning/Bay Area Breakers)
Paige Stathopoulos (Ealing Trailfinders/Boston Banshees)
Saher Hamdan (Denver Onyx)
Hallie Taufoou (Denver Onyx)
Erica Jarrell (Sale Sharks)
Rachel Ehrecke (Denver Onyx)
Emerson Allen (Twin Cities Gemini)
Tahlia Brody (Leicester Tigers/Denver Onyx)
Rachel Johnson (Exeter Chiefs/Denver Onyx)
Freda Tafuna (Lindenwood University)
Kate Zackary (Ealing Trailfinders)
Georgie Perris-Redding (Sale Sharks)
Kapoina Bailey (Denver Onyx)
Olivia Ortiz (Sale Sharks)
Cassidy Bargell (Boston Banshees)
Taina Tukuafu (Bay Area Breakers)
McKenzie Hawkins (Denver Onyx)
Kristin Bitter (Denver Onyx)
Nicole Heavirland (Boston Banshees/USA Sevens)
Alev Kelter (Loughborough Lightning/Bay Area Breakers)
Emily Henrich (Leicester Tigers/Boston Banshees)
Ilona Maher (Bristol Bears/USA Sevens)
Joanne "Nana" Fa'avesi (TBC)
Gabby Cantorna (Exeter Chiefs)
Erica Coulibaly (Denver Onyx)
Cheta Emba (Boston Banshees)
Bulou Mataitoga Wing/Fullback (Loughborough Lightning/Bay Area Breakers)
Tess Feury (Leicester Tigers/New York Exiles)
Sariah Ibarra (USA Sevens)
Lotte Sharp (Saracens)
