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Jen Kish is the captain of Canada’s women’s rugby Sevens team, which will compete at the Olympic Games in Rio.

Born in Ottawa and raised in Edmonton, Kish recently sat down with Postmedia to answer a range of questions, from her transition from 15 to Sevens, to her dad’s health, to her body art.

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Q: How did you get in to Rugby Sevens?

A: I was playing 15s, I tried out for a sevens team back in 2007 while they were training for the 2009 Sevens World Cup, but then I didn’t so much love the sport because it was really hard to do, there was a lot of sprinting, and it was so different from 15s that I decided to stick with the 15s and go to the World Cup in 2010. And then in 2011 sevens surfaced again and I said, hey, I want to go to a Sevens World Cup, so I got back into the sport of sevens.

Q: Did you know it was going to be an Olympic sport when you made that decision?

A: Apparently, people knew that it might be an Olympic sport in 2009. I guess I was out to lunch on that one. I didn’t know it was going to be a potential Olympic sport until 2012. And so, in 2011, the biggest thing in rugby was to go to World Cup. And because I’d already went to a World Cup in 15s, the next thing for me that I believed was going to a Sevens World Cup and I didn’t know it was an Olympic sport. So then when I invested my time and put 15s on the back-burner to pursue the World Cup in Sevens, when I found out that, hey, this was in the Olympics now, it was, well, a bonus, because not only do I get to strive to go to a World Cup, which is the biggest thing in rugby at that time, but now I get to go to the Olympics and try to be an Olympian, which is the biggest thing in sport. So I think that was just icing on the cake for me.