Atlantis Rugby Academy Update – Teams finish a combined 23-3 in 2025!

Atlantis Rugby Academy at Mount St. Mary's in November of 2025

It’s been a busy time with the holidays so apologies for the delay, but we wanted to provide a brief update on the Atlantis 15s Academy to close out 2025. As we posted previously, the 2025 Old North State Invitational saw Atlantis Rugby take 3 sides down to North Carolina and bring home 2 tournament championships with an overall 9-2 record.

We followed that up by travelling to Mount St. Mary’s at the end of November to take on Pittsburgh and Young Glory with our U18 and U16 Boys. The U18 boys lost to Young Glory 19-21 but were able to bounce back with a 62-0 win over Pittsburgh while the U16 boys played a full match against Young Glory and earned a 57-0 victory.

The U18 boys featured the following players:

Ryan Brown

Marco Burns

Rocco Balestriere

Kristian Krawiec

Brandon Zubyk

Jordon Young

Jack Olivo

Danny Francis

Jackson Reilly

Riley Scrogham

Aaron Kelly

Bennett Glock

Tommy Jones

Dom Pecora

Luke Eisenhardt

Matt Lis

Ryan Siler

Deacon Pesce

Sean Lynch

Bryan Henry

Colden Augustine

Chris Imperato

Following the Fall Academy season a total of 8 Atlantis Rugby players were invited to the USA Rugby Boys U18 Winter Camp. They include Marco Burns, Alex Drury, Luke Eisenhardt, Bennett Glock, Josh Gorman, Matt Lis, Deacon Pesce, and Jackson Reilly. We are thrilled to be a part of these players’ journeys, and we hope to see more Atlantis Rugby players follow in their footsteps! As always, we also must give a huge shoutout to the home clubs for putting so much day-to-day effort into developing the players.

For the U16 Boys the roster included:

Carter Augustine

Max Titter

Nick Favato

Levi Boles

Reed Charlesworth

PJ Norcia

Cross Cervellero

Mason Beck

James Burke

RT Ferris

Emery Brader

Jayden Wrigley

Grant Croce

Ryan Ficca

Charlie Fitzgerald

Carter Braun

Caden Staines

Owen Barcaskey

We also have some statistics for the U16 Boys with Grant Croce and Jayden Wrigley each score 2 tries, while PJ Norcia, Mason Beck, Nick Favato, Caden Staines, and Charlie Fitzgerald each scored 1. James Burke added 6 conversions and captained the side along with Mason Beck.

Overall, it was an outstanding year for the Atlantis 15s program with an overall record of 23 wins and 3 losses across all divisions. Our U18 Boys went 9-1, U18 Girls went 5-2, and our U16 Boys went a perfect 9-0 in 2025.

The 15s program began in 2024, and we are now up to a total record of 32 wins, 7 losses, and 1 draw with all of our matches coming against select sides, all-star teams, and regional representative sides. It’s been an impressive run, and once again we cannot thank you all enough for helping to make it happen and we give our thanks and appreciation to all of the players, parents, coaches, referees, admins, and volunteers working to grow the game of rugby!