Naya Tapper
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Sep 8, 2026
Sometimes You're the Bad Guy with Naya Tapper
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What is the process like for making rugby's national team? So yeah, after Chapel Hill.

Naya TapperGUEST
Yeah, so they usually have scouters and, um, also avenues where coaches can recommend players.

Naya TapperGUEST
And, um, then from there, if they're interested, they'll pull you in for a rugby camp.

Naya TapperGUEST
And then from there, once you're in the residency, you're constantly competing for a traveling spot because all of our games are out of the country.

Naya TapperGUEST
And so for every tournament, we'll have, like, a scrimmage week the week before, and you're basically, how are you performing this week speed-wise, gym-wise? We have scrimmages where it's full contact games, and then they make selections where out of 25 girls in the residency, 12 to 13 are going on tour for that specific tour.
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Like, okay, I'm in this group, but is that hard? And yeah, how do you, how have you navigated that, or not really?
