page_title: Matt Hawkins
section_title: Playing career
hierarchical_section_title: Matt Hawkins / Playing career
caption_attribution_description: Canada and Australia competed against each other at the International Seven's Rugby tournament sponsored by the National Guard at Petco Park in San Diego, February 14, 2009. The event featured 16 international teams in 44 matches, and was the fourth round in the International Rugby Board (IRB) Sevens World Series. As an official sponsor of USA Rugby, the National Guard will have title sponsorships of several U.S. premier events.
context_page_description: Matthew Hawkins is a South African born, former American rugby union player and former coach of the United States sevens team.
context_section_description: Hawkins played loose forward for the Old Mission Beach Athletic Club when he first arrived in the U.S., and helped the team win the 2006 national Super League title.
  In 2007 Hawkins was selected to the United States national rugby sevens team pool. He made his first appearance for the USA Eagles at the 2008 New Zealand and USA stops of the World Rugby Sevens Series. Hawkins' achievements on the Sevens circuit include the team making the cup semi-finals in the 2009 USA Sevens and reaching the final of the 2010 Adelaide Sevens. Hawkins captained the sevens team in the 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 seasons. He was at the time of his retirement among the most capped Sevens Eagles of all time.
  In fifteens, in 2010 he was selected to the USA 15's Churchill Cup squad and won his first cap against Russia.
caption: Hawkins, pictured center, playing with the USA Sevens team in 2009
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