King's College return for their third Hong Kong 10's

King’s College sponsored by Strategic Equity Alliance will return to Hong Kong for the GFI Hong Kong 10s for the third straight year. Seven veterans from the 2016 and 2017 tournaments return in 2018 to lead a talented group full of new faces. Former Queensland Reds and Kamaishi Seawaves scrumhalf Scott Gale will lead the group, supported by Australian National Rugby Championship representatives Jock Campbell, Josh Birch, Patrick Morrey and Campbell Wakely.

Stars from 2016’s Team of the Tournament group Mackenzie Burgess, Ben Campbell, James Ohmsen and Thomas Vaessen will also feature alongside another experienced hand in former College President Austin Smith, who represented Hong Kong Scottish at last year’s tournament. Headlining an exciting crop of rookies is 21-year-old livewire Connor Clancy, an Australian Rugby Sevens National Champion from 2016’s dominant Queensland team.

Fellow Kings rookies Harry McMahon and Alex Moses made big impressions at the 2017 Queensland Schoolboys trials, while Finn Mounsey, Ash Whitehead, Tom and Henry Sharp have made their names featuring in Queensland’s famed GPS Schools competition. The group will be coached for the third time by South African-born coach Dave Jackman, ably assisted by Dane Jones of the University of Queensland Rugby Football Club. King’s College sponsored by Strategic Equity Alliance have been seeded 6th in the 2018 competition, entering Pool C alongside title contenders Tradition YCAC from Yokohama, the US-based CCIC Tigers coached by Blitzbokke legend Frankie Horne, and the Devil’s Own Shanghai Silver Dragons.

Coaches: Dave Jackman + Dane Jones

1. Mackenzie Burgess
2. Ben Campbell
3. Jock Campbell
4. Conor Clancy
5. Luke Cuskelly
6. Scott Gale
7. Josh Birch
8. Harry McMahon
9. Patrick Morrey
10. Finn Mounsey
11. James Ohmsen
12. Alex Moses
13. Henry Sharp
14. Tom Sharp
15. Thomas Vaessen
16. Campbell Wakely
17. Ash Whitehead
​18. Austin Smith