Can I send a text message to a group in iCloud?

I have groups set up in iCloud contacts but I can't figure out how to use them effectively. For example I have a group of boys on a sports team in a group but I can't select the group as a whole to send them a text message, I have to add them
individually then go back to that string. Am I making this to hard?  What's is the use of having groups if you can't use them?

There are apps that allow you to address sms messages to groups (such as Speed Names: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speed-names-contacts-groups/id285124918?mt=8), but not iMessages.  Perhaps this will change with a future iOS update.
The only point of having them at the moment is to allow you to limit the view to only contacts belonging to a group, so that you can more easily add the individual members of the group.  But at the present time, you still have to add them individually.

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