MEN
The average age of the 128 players (8 teams with 16 players on their roster) participating in the Men’s Pan American Games in Toronto is 25.8 years old. The youngest team is the USA (22.7), while the oldest team is Cuba (28.7).
At 37, Cuban player Alexander Abreu Abreus is the oldest and is playing in his fourth Pan American Games. His teammate Yoandy Blanco Hernández is 36; he is playing in his fifth Pan Am Games, having collecting bronze medals in 1999 and 2003.
At the other end of the age spectrum, Brazilian Paul Bernard Duncker is the youngest player at 16, just one month younger than Mexican Irvin Baruch Chavez Gómez. There are only 6 teenagers in the competition (1 for Brazil, 2 for Mexico and 3 for Trinidad & Tobago).
The average number of International Caps is 66.4. The team with the least international experience is Cuba (with an average of 31.4 International Caps), while the most experienced team is Argentina (with an average of 129 International Caps), the only squad with an average number of international matches over the hundred mark.
Surprisingly, Cuba is both the oldest and least experienced squad in the competition (based on the numbers provided by their National Association).
The most capped player in the competition is Argentinian stalwart Matias Paredes, with 270 international appearances. He is playing in his forth Pan American Games, having won two Gold Medals (2003 and 2011).
Four additional players have played more than 200 international matches: 2 Argentinians (Juan Martin Lopez, 202, and Pedro Ibarra, 200) and 2 Canadians (David Jameson, 225, and Scott Tupper, 209).
At the other end of the experience ladder, young Mexican goal-keeper José Alan Hernandez Alarcón has only 2 Caps to his credit. 6 additional players have played in less than 10 international matches (2 for Brazil, 2 for Mexico, 1 for Trinidad & Tobago and 1 for the USA).
WOMEN
The average age of the 128 players on the women’s side is 24.1 years old. The youngest team is the Mexico (22.5), while the oldest team is the Dominican Republic (25.5).
At 37, Argentinian captain Macarena Rodriguez is the oldest player, more than twice the age of Mexican Arlette Michelle Estrada Rodriguez, the youngest player at 16 (just one month younger than Mexican Irvin Baruch Chavez Gómez). There are 9 teenagers in the competition (1 for Argentina, 1 for Canada, 1 for Cuba, 1 for the Dominican Republic, 3 for Mexico and 2 for Uruguay).
The average number of International Caps is 66.3, exactly the same as for the men. The team with the least international experience is the Dominican Republic (with an average of 19.2 International Caps), while the most experienced team is the USA (with an average of 132.7 International Caps), 30 more on average that Argentina, usually the most seasoned team in Pan American competitions.
As Cuba on the men’s side, the Dominican Republic is both the oldest and least experienced squad in the competition.
The most capped player on the women’s competition is American Rachel Dawson, with 264 international appearances. Although only 29 years old, she is playing in her 3rd Pan American Games and won a Gold Medal in 2011 in Guadalajara.
Three additional players have played more than 200 international matches: 1 Argentinian (Noel Barrionuevo, 238) and 2 Americans (Lauren Crandall, 255, and Katelyn Falgowski, 205), while Argentinian Macarena Rodriguez, currently standing at 197 Caps, will join the elite 200 club on the last pool match in Toronto.
Mexican Arlette Estrada Rodriguez, the youngest player in the competition, only has 4 Caps to her credit. Four additional players have played in less than 10 international matches (1 for Argentina, 2 for the Dominican Republic, and 1 for Uruguay).
