The USA Selects are like the U-20 USA hockey team or the U-20 national soccer team. The USA Juniors have been producing world class players the last few years. Auston Matthews was the #1 pick in the whole world. The year before it was Jack Eichel and Noah Hannifin who were picked 2nd and 3rd. The U-20 national soccer team also has future stars in the making like Christian Pulisic.
The USA select are not on that caliber yet. The Selects just entered into a "Junior" tournament called the World Rugby Americas Pacific Challenge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_World_Rugby_Americas_Pacific_Challenge
The USA selects did not got pasted by the better teams here. They lost badly to both Fiji and Uruguay. They were not even in the game. They did manage to beat lowly Canada. This was only good enough for 5th out of 6 placed. It not the Selects came in 5th it the fact the were not even competitive to keep up with the better countries.
The USA only has til 2019 to infuse some talent into their national team. We are all hoping the new ProRugby league will assist this effort.
