Bryn Keys (born August 29, 1985) is a Canadian former international
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
player.
Biography
Keys is native of
Abbotsford, British Columbia
Abbotsford is a city in British Columbia next to the Canada–United States border, Greater Vancouver, and the Fraser River. With a census population of 153,569 people (2021), it is the most populous municipality in the province outside metropol ...
and grew up around rugby union from an early age, with his father George being the rugby coach at
Abbotsford Secondary School. He was a youth product of
Abbotsford RFC and played on the
Yale Secondary School
Yale Secondary is a public High school#Canada, high school in Abbotsford, British Columbia part of School District 34 Abbotsford. There are approximately 1250 full-time students in grades 9 through 12. The current principal of the school is Stan W ...
rugby team, before moving to
Robert Bateman Secondary for his final year of school.
A centre, Keys spent his career with
Velox Valhallians
Westshore Rugby Football Club (Or Simply Westshore R.F.C., or Westshore Rugby) is a rugby union club located in Colwood, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island. The club has the largest junior program on the island and is home to a number of Cana ...
, Aurora Barbarians and English professional club
Moseley
Moseley ( ') is an affluent suburb in south Birmingham, England, south of the city centre.
It is located within the eponymous Moseley ward of the constituency of Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley (UK Parliament constituency), Hall Green and ...
.
Keys represented Canada at the
Under 19 Rugby World Championship
The IRB under 19 Rugby World Cup was the premier tournament for male rugby union players under the age of 19 organized by the sports governing body (the International Rugby Board
World Rugby is the governing body for the sport of rugby union. ...
in 2004 and progressed to earn full international honours at the
2008 Churchill Cup
The 2008 Churchill Cup took place between 7 June and 21 June 2008 in what was the sixth year of the Churchill Cup. Six rugby union teams took part: , England Saxons, Ireland A, Scotland A, the , and an Argentinian XV.
Participation
The entry o ...
, gaining his first
Canada
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cap against the United States in Chicago. In 2009, Keys broke his ankle, tibia and fibula playing against Japan in Miyagi, which proved to be his final capped appearance.
He kept competing at club level until 2011, when a broken neck ended his career.
In 2017, Keys was inducted into the Abbotsford Sports Hall of Fame.
See also
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List of Canada national rugby union players
List of Canada national men’s rugby union players is a list of people who have played for the Canada national men’s rugby union team. The list only includes players who have played in a Test match.
Note that the "position" column lists the ...
References
External links
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1985 births
Living people
Canadian rugby union players
Canada international rugby union players
Rugby union players from British Columbia
Rugby union centres
Sportspeople from Abbotsford, British Columbia
Victoria Vikes rugby union players
Birmingham Moseley Rugby players
Canadian expatriate rugby union players in England