Megan Eveliene Lukan (born February 14, 1992) is a Canadian former

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and

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player. At the

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she was a four-year starting guard for the Green Bay women's Division l basketball team. During her UWGB basketball career, Lukan set a number of records including most career assists and most minutes played during a career. Lukan switched to rugby union after graduating in May 2015. She was named to Canada's first ever women's

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Olympic team at the

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, where the team won a Bronze medal. In 2018, she was selected by the

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to be sponsored to attend

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' MBA program at Queen's University. Lukan's younger sister

Kaili Lukan Kaili Lukan is a Canadian rugby sevens player. She made her debut with the senior national team in June 2017 during the Clermont-Ferrand, France leg of the HSBC World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. She won a gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Game ...

also played basketball at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and was a member of the Canada women's national rugby sevens team. As of 2019, Lukan considers herself retired from athletics.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lukan, Megan 1992 births Living people Canadian female rugby union players Rugby union players from Toronto Basketball players from Toronto Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic rugby sevens players for Canada Canada international rugby sevens players Green Bay Phoenix women's basketball players Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Olympic medalists in rugby sevens Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Canada international women's rugby sevens players 21st-century Canadian sportswomen