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UBC star Theo Sauder looks set to trade blue and gold for red and white.

The fourth-year back got hisfirst senior men’s Rugby Canada call up this week, after playing for Canada in a pair of warm up games against the Ontario Arrows this month.

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The 22 year old has been on and off the radars of national team coaches — sevens and fifteens — since before he graduated from St. George’s School in Vancouver in 2014.

He played sevens for the Maple Leafs development squad while still in high school and was a key man for Canada U20 as well.

His speed, agility and creativity with ball in hand is a rarely seen thing in Canadian rugby, so you can understand why.

Now, fit, healthy, with another solid season for UBC behind him — and with a rather open door at full back for Canada — the young flyer looks set to take a big step forward.

“Sauder is someone that has been on my radar since I arrived,” head coach Kingsley Jones said in announcing his squad this week for games against Scotland, Russia and the USA. “I’ve watched his club clips and went to watch some of his games. He has an amazing skill set, there’s nothing it seems he can’t do on the ball.