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News Aug-28-2024

2024 Major League Rugby College Draft Results

DALLAS – Major League Rugby, the premier professional rugby league in North America, announced the results of the 2024 MLR College Draft on The Rugby Network on Wednesday.

The draft consisted of three rounds of 12 picks each, totaling 36 selections by MLR franchises.

The 2024 MLR College Draft was the fifth in league history, featuring the deepest talent pool to date. St. Mary’s College of California saw six players drafted, the most in this year’s draft, while a total of 22 schools were represented with selections.

Anthem RC selected Erich Storti with the first pick. Storti joins Rick Rose (Miami, 2023), Sam Golla (Dallas, 2022), Eric Naposki (Dallas, 2021), and Conner Mooneyham (Dallas, 2020) as the first overall players to be taken in the draft.

MLR uses a “Draft and Follow” approach where rights to drafted players will be assigned following the MLR College Draft. Teams may activate those rights at any point until the mid-point of the next competitive MLR season after the player is eligible to play in the MLR. Drafting teams may sign those players or trade player rights with other MLR teams.

The league hosted its first MLR College draft in 2020, which saw 24 players selected across two rounds, but commensurate with the growth of the league, the draft has grown into its current form today.

A complete breakdown of the each pick by round is available below:

PICK	TEAM	PLAYER	COLLEGE
1	ANTHEM RC	Erich Oliver Storti	Saint Mary’s College of California
2	ANTHEM RC	Neil Jacob Trainor	Queen’s University
3	MIAMI SHARKS	Calvin Michael Ihrig	Lindenwood University
4	NEW ENGLAND FREE JACKS	Kaipono Kayoshi	Saint Mary’s College of California
5	ANTHEM RUGBY CAROLINA	Jeron Wayne Pantor	Life University
6	NOLA GOLD	Aidan Warwick King	Pennsylvania State University
7	SAN DIEGO LEGION	Inoke Waqavesi	Saint Marys College of California
8	HOUSTON SABERCATS	Alex Aguero	University of California, Berkeley
9	DALLAS JACKALS	Darius Law	Life University
10	CHICAGO HOUNDS	Peyton Justin Wall	Indiana University
11	SEATTLE SEAWOLVES	Calvin Liulamaga	Central Washington University
12	OLD GLORY DC	Raymond Lawrence Santiago	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
13	ANTHEM RC	Ernest Vailou George Freeman	University of Arizona
14	NEW ENGLAND FREE JACKS	Matthew Carrion	Life University
15	OLD GLORY DC	Aidan Scott Ridgway	Arkansas State University
16	UTAH WARRIORS	Ammon Tielu Sagala	Brigham Young University
17	OLD GLORY DC	Aaron Tanaka Juma	Wheeling University
18	NOLA GOLD	Dalton West Musselman	Pennsylvania State University
19	SAN DIEGO LEGION	Hunter Chuhlantseff	Saint Mary’s College of California
20	HOUSTON SABERCATS	Jake Negrete	Saint Mary’s College of California
21	SEATTLE SEAWOLVES	Joshua Thomas Schwartz	Queens University of Charlotte
22	CHICAGO HOUNDS	Jake Chandler Kinneeveauk	University of Utah
23	SEATTLE SEAWOLVES	Connor Richard WIlliams `	University of Ottawa
24	ANTHEM RC	Le’Donn Mathis	Lindenwood University
25	ANTHEM RC	Ashawnty Staples	Notre Dame College
26	RFCLA	Patrick Maurice Beattie	California State University Long Beach
27	MIAMI SHARKS	Lautaro Soto Ansay	Lindenwood University
28	UTAH WARRIORS	Cole Pearce Semu	Brigham Young University
29	OLD GLORY DC	Sebastian Schefermann	Mary Washington University
30	UTAH WARRIORS	Nicholas E Andiarena	Adrian College
31	SAN DIEGO LEGION	Daniel George Bray	University of California, Santa Barbara
32	RFCLA	Caleb Tomasin	University of California, Berkeley
33	RFCLA	Lleyton Christian Delzell	Saint Mary’s College of California
34	CHICAGO HOUNDS	Alexander Amid Hernandez	Marian University
35	SEATTLE SEAWOLVES	Jamie Jason Robert Armstrong	University of Ottawa
36	NEW ENGLAND FREE JACKS	Emanuel Lai	Santa Clara University