Olympic rookie Krissy Scurfield is newer to rugby sevens after switching from hockey to star with the University of Victoria Vikes
PARIS — Charity Williams, in her third Olympics, has been at this a long time with the Langford-based Canadian women’s rugby sevens team and is the last connection to the 2016 Rio Olympics bronze-medallist squad.
“It feels surreal — a 10 year journey that is still going. I feel lucky to still be in Victoria training and to still be on the national team with all these young players and that’s exciting,” said Williams, whose career has been highlighted by her game-breaking speed down the wings. Among the youth brigade, that will carry forward to Los Angeles 2028 when Williams is likely in retirement, is Scurfield.But the former Midget Triple-A hockey star from Canmore, Alta., never thought it would be in rugby sevens. Scurfield was mulling several full-ride NCAA hockey scholarships in Grades 11-12 before enrolling in an RBC Training Ground session in 2021 that redirected her to rugby, which led to the UVic Vikes, and today to the Stade de France as an Olympian.
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