Carolyn McEwen

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Carolyn McEwen (born 10 July 1986) is a Canadian rugby union player and coach who played as a prop for the Canada women's national rugby union team. [1] [2] She was named Canada West All-Star. [3]

Career

She was a figure skater, but switched to rugby. [4]

She competed 2015 Women's Rugby Super Series, and 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, [3] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

She played for University of British Columbia. [11] [3] and Burnaby Lake Rugby Club. [12]

She is a coach for the U20 Canada Women's Rugby Team. [13]

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  2. ↑ "Numerous Ontario athletes in action this weekend with Canada". www.rugbyontario.com. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  3. 1 2 3 slambie (2017-07-11). "Carolyn McEwen selected to represent Canada at the 2017 Rugby World Cup". Kinesiology. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  4. ↑ "Athlete of the week: Carolyn McEwen, Team Canada rugby player". CBC. November 19, 2016.
  5. ↑ "UBC academic McEwen uses brain, brawn in bid for Rugby World Cup glory". theprovince. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  6. ↑ "McEwen picked for World Cup tour". Burnaby Now. 2017-05-04. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  7. ↑ News, Americas Rugby (2017-07-05). "Canada name Women's World Cup team". Americas Rugby News. Retrieved 2023-05-29.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  8. ↑ djcoilrugby (2017-08-09). "Canada Overwhelms Hong Kong to Begin Women's Rugby World Cup 2017". djcoilrugby. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  9. ↑ since 2005, Serving the BC Rugby community. "Women's RWC 2017". www.bcrugbynews.com. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  10. ↑ "England women beat Canada 27-20". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  11. ↑ "Carolyn McEwen - Women's Rugby". University of British Columbia Athletics. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  12. ↑ "Canada 'quality underdogs' for Women's Rugby World Cup". thestar.com. 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  13. ↑ "Rugby Canada announces 2023 women's age grade programming". Rugby Canada. 2023-03-29. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
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