Nate Hirayama 🇨🇦 | Episode 14

Rugby Hive

Hosts Dallen Stanford & Robin MacDowell are joined by legend Nate Hirayama for #RugbyHive Episode 14.

Hirayama has played in 5 Rugby World Cups representing Canada at the Sevens World Cup in Moscow (2013) and San Francisco (2018), as well as the 2007, 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cups.

He’s toured the world for 15 years on the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series. Hirayama (1,859) is the 3rd highest points scorer of all-time alongside the great Ben Gollings (2,652) from England and New Zealand’s playmaker Tomasi Cama (2,026). He is 7th in the world for most tournament appearances, with 79 events, debuting back in 2006. He was part of the Gold medal Canadian 7s team at the Pan American Games in 2011 (Guadalajara) and 2015 (Toronto), as well as winning Silver in 2019 (Lima).

In today’s episode (which was recorded during April 2020 during the early stages of lockdown) we chat about his childhood, mentors and coaches, playing international 7s at just 18 years of age, and his experiences at 3 different Rugby World Cup campaigns. We look at advice he imparts for younger players, how he managed to last like an action hero on the Series, favorite tries, highlights representing his country and of course best and worst room mates on tour!

His greatest honor lies await, captaining Canada at the 2020 Olympic Games in Japan.

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