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Written by Alex Goff
Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:20 |
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RUGBYMag.com All D1-A Teams! |
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Colleges -
College DI-A
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RUGBYMag.com has selected its All D1-A teams.
These are players who we consider are the best at their position in the league. We give some consideration, when deciding between players, as to what their national team potential is, but only in terms of their play and physical attributes, not their country of origin.
A 1st team, 2nd team, and Honorable Mention team were picked.
Some notes: At times we opted for an unconventional choice in order to get what we considered the best team. Don Pati has played a lot of scrumhalf, but has also suited up at center for Utah, and to keep this exciting and dangerous player on the field we chose him at center.
Mike Shepherd and Matt Crawford both can play hooker or prop. We picked them at the positions we felt they were most effective (Shepherd throws in at the lineout, Crawford usually doesn't, so Shepherd wears #2).
Cameron Dolan has played both No. 8 and openside flanker - going to flank defensively on scrums. Again, in the interests of getting both Dolan and Ryan Roundy on the field at the same time, we slide Dolan to flanker.
Seventeen different teams contributed players to this list, with BYU contributing the most, eight. Arkansas State, Life, St. Mary's and Utah have five each in this list.
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RUGBYMag.com All D1-A 1st Team |
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Matt Crawford |
St. Mary's |

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Mike Shepherd |
Utah |
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Mikey Su'a |
BYU |
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Mike Lawrenson |
Kutztown |
| 5 |
Jack Bristol |
Air Force |
| 6 |
Steyn Benade |
Arkansas State |
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Cameron Dolan |
Life |
| 8 |
Ryan Roundy |
BYU |
| 9 |
Shaun Davies |
BYU |

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| 10 |
Will Holder |
Army |
| 11 |
Tim Stanfill |
CWU |
| 12 |
Paul Lasike |
BYU |
| 13 |
Don Pati |
Utah |
| 14 |
Kyle Ulses |
Army |
| 15 |
Joe Cowley |
Life |
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RUGBYMag.com All D1-A 2nd Team |
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Jake Mizell |
Arkansas State |

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Andrew Cook |
St. Mary's |
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Nick Mostyn |
Utah |
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TJ Allred |
BYU |
| 5 |
Robert Hayslip |
Arkansas State |
| 6 |
Seamus Seifring |
Navy |
| 7 |
Paul Bester |
Life |
| 8 |
Shaun Potgieter |
Arkansas State |
| 9 |
Christopher Saint |
Penn State |
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| 10 |
Dylan Lubbe |
BYU |
| 11 |
Tonata Lauti |
Utah |
| 12 |
Colton Cariaga |
Life |
| 13 |
Karl Crist |
Army |
| 14 |
Luke Lahman |
Colorado |
| 15 |
Kingsley McGowan |
St. Mary's |
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RUGBYMag.com All D1-A Honorable Mention |
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| 1 |
Ray Forrester |
BYU |
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Jamie Gregory |
Kutztown |
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Nick Wallace |
St. Mary's |
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Scott Metcalf |
Utah |
| 5 |
Kelly Harris |
St. Mary's |
| 6 |
Eric Rubenstein |
Rutgers |
| 7 |
Kevin Kimble |
Penn State |
| 8 |
Nick Svob |
Arizona |
| 9 |
Yoshiyasu Abe |
Arkansas State |
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| 10 |
Conor Mills |
Texas A&M |
| 11 |
Martial Chaput |
UCLA |
| 12 |
Hoeski Kofe |
BYU |
| 13 |
Zach Utley |
Arizona State |
| 14 |
Calvin Nell |
Life |
| 15 |
Adam Sandstrom |
Arizona State |
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