I will have a tournament schedule and a list of the players up on the CWSA web site shortly, but here is a sneak peak of the top players on the teams we will be facing:

(Those listed in bold were members of either the US, New Zealand, or Australian Wheelchair Rugby National Teams at the Athens Paralympic Games)

AUCKLAND
3.0 Mark Zupan
2.5 Curtis Palmer
2.0 Gary McMurray
2.0 Tim Johnson
1.0 Jai Waite
... and coached by Grant Sharman

WELLINGTON
I don't know any of these guys... but they do have a new "Hickling" which has got to be a good sign... ;)

MANAWATU
2.5 Peter Martin
2.0 Sholto Taylor (yes, that's not a typo... he got re-classified)
1.0 Phil Spring

CANTERBURY
3.0 Dan Buckingham
2.0 Geremy Tinker
1.0 Bill Oughton (who is also the president of the NZ wheelchair rugby and a regular reader of this blog)

OZ4
3.5 Brad Dubberley (who did tell me that he was taking time off from the sport... guess it's in the blood)
2.0 Bryce Alman
2.0 Greg Smith
0.5 Ryan Scott
(everyone gets mentioned from this team 'cause they're playing IronMan Rugby!)

QUEENSLAND
2.5 Patrick Ryan
2.5 Grant Boxall
0.5 Nazim Erdem

Meawhile, we've got two teams of our own down under, newly named "Fire" and "Ice."

They consist of:

CANADA FIRE
3.5 Garett Hickling
3.0 Fabien Lavoie
3.0 Ian Chan
1.0 Gordie Publicover
1.0 Trevor Hirschfield
1.0 Mike Bacon
0.5 Daniel Paradis
Coach: Adam Frost

CANADA ICE
3.0 Mike Whitehead
2.0 Dave Willsie
2.0 Say Luangkhamdeng
2.0 Martin Larocque
1.5 Patrice Simard
1.5 Erika Schmütz
0.5 Jared Funk
Coach: Benoit Labrecque

That's all for now...