{"id":6033,"date":"2019-02-12T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2019-03-13T20:25:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T03:25:18","slug":"westshore-rfc-players-represent-in-the-mlr-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/westshore-rfc-players-represent-in-the-mlr-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Westshore RFC Players represent in the MLR 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the second season of the newly minted Major League Rugby (MLR) already in session, do you know where your Westshore RFC players with professional contracts are running? With 9 teams in the league, and over 30+ Canadian players signed within, our club accounts for 7 of these high performance athletes on 3 different teams.\u00a0 Being New Orleans Gold and\u00a0 Seattle Sea wolfs each with 2, and Toronto Arrows with 3. Check out the links below for each team, which have a section to meet the players\/rosters. And get to know some of our top players with mini bios for each!!!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span>MLR website link : <\/span>https:\/\/www.usmlr.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span>New Orleans Gold: <\/span>https:\/\/www.nolagoldrugby.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kyle Baillie<\/strong>–<\/span> Flanker position has 22 caps with 16 starts for Canada, making his debut on NSMT in CAN vs USA in Feb 16. <\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>From Summerside, PEI<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Signed with NO Gold RFC<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Has played with pro team Ohio Aviators in 16<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Member of the Rock Atlantic CRC team.<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Played for Westshore RFC, St Alberts (SAR) RFC, London Scottish in Ontario, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Eric Howard<\/strong>– H<\/span>ooker position has 17 caps with 2 starts for Canada, debut on NSMT Feb 16 in CAN vs Brazil. <\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>From Kanata, Ont<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Member of the Ontario Blues from 13-16.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Signed with NO Gold RFC in the MLR, now starting in his 2nd year.<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Played for Westshore RFC, University of Guelph, Brantford Harlequins<\/span><\/p>\n

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Seattle Sea Wolfs: <\/span>http:\/\/www.seattleseawolves.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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B<\/strong><\/span><\/span>rock Staller<\/strong>– Wing\/Center<\/span> position has 16 caps with 13 starts for Canada-scoring 69 points, debut on NSMT Feb 16 in CAN vs Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>From Vancouver, BC<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Member of Vancouver Wave all star regional team, as well as BC Bears provincial team in the CRC.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Was a member of the UBC Thunderbird from 14-16.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>For 2 yrs straight was the BC Premier Division leading scorer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Played for Westshore RFC, Meralomas RFC, Oakbay CW RFC.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nakai Penny<\/strong>–<\/span> Backrow positions, has 2 caps for Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>From Penticton, BC<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Played for UBC Thunderbirds from 14-17, winning 3 Rounsfell Cups.<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Member of Canada U20 team in 16.<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Member of the BC Bears in 17, winning MacTier Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>signed with the Seattle Sea wolfs in the MLR last year, now starting his 2nd<\/sup> year.<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Played for Westshore RFC<\/span><\/p>\n

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Toronto Arrows: <\/span>https:\/\/torontoarrows.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Spencer Jones<\/strong>– Flyhalf\/Center signed with Toronto Arrows RFC in the MLR, 1st year. Made the MLR 1st 15 of the week for his outstanding play.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Born on Vancouver Island, Canada, but raised from young age in Cambridge, NZ.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Attended the Waikato University from 15-18.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Member of the Waikato Developmental Academy Squad.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Played semi pro rugby for Austin Blacks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Played for Westshore RFC in Canada, Hamilton Old Boys in NZ.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Andrew Ferguson<\/strong>– Scrum Half <\/span>position has 11 caps with 2 starts for Canada, debut on NSMT Feb 16 in CAN vs USA.<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>From Mississauga, Ontario.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Went to McMasters University from 09-15.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Was member of Canadian U20 team for 2 years in 11-12.<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Member of Ontario Blues from 11-17.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Selected as member for national University 7\u2019s Dream Team in 15.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Signed with Toronto Arrows RFC in the MLR, 1st year<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Played for Westshore RFC, Oakville Crusaders.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tom Dolezel<\/strong>–<\/span> Prop position has 16 caps for Canada, making his debut on NSMT in CAN vs Russia in 09.<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Played in the CFL for Calgary Stampeders as defensive Tackle in 2008.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Played pro in Colwyn Bay, Wales in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Member of the Ontario Blues from 09-16.<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Signed with Toronto Arrows RFC in the MLR, 1st year<\/span><\/p>\n

o\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Played for Westshore RFC, Western University, Otago University (NZ)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the second season of the newly minted Major League Rugby (MLR) already in session, do you know where your Westshore RFC players with professional contracts are running? With 9 teams in the league, and over 30+ Canadian players signed within, our club accounts for 7 of these high performance athletes on 3 different teams.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-front-page"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6483,"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}