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Andrea Burk has been busy. First, the North Vancouver rugby player spent two months in New Zealand, honing her game playing for College Rifles in Auckland. Then, in June, she played XVs for Canada, leading her team in scoring as they went 3-0 against England, the USA and France — and pulled themselves up four sports in the World Rugby Rankings. They’re now second to New Zealand.

Now, Burk is in Rio, where she’s covering rugby sevens for the CBC. She’ll be doing analysis of the Canadian women’s games in pool play (Saturday at 8:30 a.m. PT vs. Japan, Saturday at 1:30 p.m. vs. Brazil, Sunday at 8:30 a.m. vs. Great Britain), as well as the playoff rounds, which begin Sunday afternoon.

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We caught up with Burk as she was prepping for her big-time broadcasting debut.

Q: Simple question: how’d this all happen?

A: I submitted my details to the CBC and said I could do the analyst role, they don’t have a female analyst yet — only Gareth Rees. I had an interview with the producers and they asked me to sign on.