Australian Schoolboys rugby union team

The Australian Schoolboys team, also called the Australian Schools team or the Australian Schoolboys and Under 18 team, is the national representative side for schoolboy and under 18 rugby union players in Australia. It is regarded as the highest level of schoolboy rugby in the country and plays international matches against national schoolboy or under 18 sides from other nations. Its players are chosen after the Australian Schools Rugby Championships, which have been held every year since 1973 and which are contested by state and territory representative squads, with the winner of the senior tier receiving the Jika Travers Shield. A separate Australian Schools Barbarians side, first selected in 1995, also plays touring schoolboy teams, but those matches are not counted as full Australian Schools internationals. Many former members have gone on to Super Rugby and to the Australian national team.