Team Canada ready to face off against Japan at BC Place in Vancouver Aug. 25
With four Earl Marriott Secondary School alumni currently members on Canada’s Men’s Rugby Team, they are coming home this week as Canada prepares to face off against Japan on Sunday as part of the newly rebranded Pacific Nations Cup.
But EMS teacher and rugby coach Adam Roberts – who says rugby is a sport everyone would love to play, but"they just don’t know it until they actually try it" – said that the Semiahmoo Peninsula has been producing high-level rugby players ever since Paul Horne at Semiahmoo Secondary cultivated the rugby culture in the area in the early '80s, with Bayside Rugby Club doing an excellent job of continuing to grow the sport's stronghold.
"He was a giant in Grade 8... I said, 'You've got to try rugby," he said, and added the McMullin twins are all-around,"highly talented athletes" who also won the provincial title in volleyball three years in a row. "My mom, who knew nothing about the sport, was worried he was going to get hurt. Adam said, 'Let him play one game see how it goes,' and then he went out to play," McMullin recalled."Then my mom was like, 'Oh, I was worrying about the wrong kid – he’s going to hurt other people.'"
Teammate Calixto Martinez, who also plays for the MLR's Old Glory DC team, is now a forestry consultant, but used to fight fires in remote areas, and compared rugby with fighting fires.
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