NSW players have dominated selection in the Australia A squad that will tour Japan later this year.

Australia A coach Mark Moxon and his coaching staff, selected a 27 man squad for the first international schoolboy tour in several years following the final day of the Australian Schools Championships at Knox in Sydney on Saturday.

The Australian Schools Championships is contested by the best under 18 talent, not selected in the Waratahs, Reds, Brumbies, Rebels and Force U18s academies. Those players will vie for selection in the Australian U18s side later this year.

On top of two teams from NSW and QLD, and a team from ACT and Victoria, a NSW Juniors U18s and a NSW Barbarians side contested the tournament. These sides featured U18s players from right across the state who qualified from a range on non-traditional pathways.

Three players –  Luron Patea from Hills Sports High, Samu Tuisau from West Harbour and Ben Park from Newcastle Hunter – earned selection in the Australia A squad from these pathways.

The Australia A squad features 19 players from NSW and four players each from QLD and ACT and will tour Japan later this year.

Australia A squad to tour Japan

1. William McKinnon – Knox Grammar School, NSW I

2. Jakeb Horne – Brisbane State High School, QLD II

3. Peniata Jnr Poutasi – Keebra Park State High School, QLD I

4. Sebastian Bush – Northern Beaches Secondary College, NSW I

5. William Taylor – St Stanislaus College, NSW I

6. Darcy Fogarty – St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill, NSW II

7. Harry Davis – The Scots College, NSW I

8. Luron Patea – The Hills Sports High, NSW Barbarians

9. Nick Lamming – St Ignatius College Riverview, NSW I

10. Andrew McFarlane – St Edmunds College, ACT

11. Will Perkins – St Ignatius College Riverview, NSW I

12. Leo Bassingwaighte – Shore School, NSW I

13. Riley Langfield – St Stanislaus College, NSW I

14. Finn Lawson – Mountain Creek State High School, QLD I

15. Shane Wilcox – St Edmunds College, ACT

Reserves: 

16. Sam Bourgeois – Knox Grammar School, NSW II

17. Ky Pule – Waverley College, NSW I

18. Will Goddard – Knox Grammar School, NSW I

19. Pat Isles – Marist College Canberra, ACT

20. Darcey Bush – Daramalan College, ACT

21. TJ Herring – Northern Beaches Secondary College, NSW II

22. Manus Bailey – St Aloysius College, NSW I

23. Samu Tuisau – Seda College/West Harbour, NSW Juniors

24. Miracle Tangatta – King’s Christian College, QLD I

25. Jay Ingleton – Oakhill College, NSW I

26. Ben Park – Kotara High School/Hunter, NSW Barbarians

27. Harrison Darling – St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill, NSW I