For those of you not in “the know”, the Women’s Rugby World Cup has begun in Ireland. This is a great opportunity to show some national pride as Canada enters the tournament ranked #3 in the world. After watching Team Canada rout Hong Kong 98-0 in their opening game of the tournament on the strength of a huge game from team star Magali Harvey, who had 5 tries and 8 conversions, we were inspired to take a closer look at Harvey.

Harvey became a known Canadian sports figure in 2014 when she was named international women’s player of the year and helped lead Team Canada to a finals appearance at the Womens World Rugby Cup in France. In the Semi Finals she scored this, one of the most incredible sporting spectacles we’ve seen from Canadian sport. Canada lost a hard fought game to England in the finals, 21-9. The two teams had met in round robin play and tied 13-13. Only Emily Scarratt of England scored more total points than Harvey in the Tournament – Harvey is on pace to shatter those numbers in this 2017 Cup.

Magali was born in Quebec City in 1990 and played University rugby for St. Francis where she won Canadian University championships in 2010 and 2012. She also plays Rugby 7s for Team Canada which captured gold at the 2015 Pan Am Games. She credits a change in perspective for her success on the field, “It was only once I realized that I was there because I wanted to be there, not because I had to be there, that I started to change my perspective on things. And it definitely helped me step up my game. I just started pushing harder at training, and stopped cutting corners in everything I did.”

Canada next plays Wales on Sunday continuing round robin play. You can follow along here.

photo credit olympic.ca

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