Jorden Kevan Sandover-Best (born October 19, 1994) is a Canadian

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player. A 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 ...

, Sandover-Best was educated at Robert Bateman Secondary. Sandover-Best, a scrum-half, won a bronze medal with Canada's

rugby sevens Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens, and originally seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. R ...

team at the

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in Colombia and was a member of the Canada under-20s for two editions of the Junior World Rugby Trophy. He played in five consecutive British Columbia Premier League championships competing with the

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and then

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. In 2018, Sandover-Best was capped for

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in a match against Russia in Ottawa.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sandover-Best, Jorden 1994 births Living people Canadian rugby union players Canada international rugby union players Rugby union scrum-halves Rugby union players from British Columbia Sportspeople from Abbotsford, British Columbia UBC Thunderbirds rugby union players UBC Old Boys Ravens players Medalists at the 2013 World Games World Games bronze medalists for Canada World Games medalists in rugby sevens

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