Richard Allan "Sluggo" Suggitt (October 30, 1958 – June 27, 2017) was a Canadian rugby union footballer and a rugby union coach. Ric was also the head coach of the USA Women's 7's Olympic team and was the head coach at University of Lethbridge. He had to leave competitive rugby at a young age due to successive shoulder injuries. Then, he began his international coaching career. Suggitt was the coach of the female Canada national team and the men's national seven-a-side team, when he was appointed to the post of coach of the male

Canada national rugby union team The Canada men's national rugby union team () represents the Canada in men's international rugby union competitions. They are overseen by Rugby Canada the governing body of rugby union in Canada. Canada is classified by World Rugby as a tier ...

, in 2004. Under Suggitt the national team achieved qualification to the

2007 Rugby World Cup The 2007 Rugby World Cup () was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition organised by the International Rugby Board. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by F ...

by beating the USA Eagles 56–7. The World Cup was not so successful and disappointingly only reached a 12–12 draw with

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. In March 2008, he was replaced by New Zealand coach

Kieran Crowley Kieran James Crowley (born 31 August 1961) is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former player, who is the former head coach of Italy. He has also coached the New Zealand Under-19s in the 2007 World Championships as well as coaching provincial ...

. Suggitt died on June 27, 2017, at the age of 58.

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Profile of Ric Suggit
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