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Olmstead earns national Player of the Year honour

North Vancouver’s Evan Olmstead was named the Senior Men’s Player of the Year at Rugby Canada’s awards dinner held March 9 in Vancouver.
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Evan Olmstead takes charge for Team Canada. photo Ian Muir/Rugby Canada

North Vancouver’s Evan Olmstead was named the Senior Men’s Player of the Year at Rugby Canada’s awards dinner held March 9 in Vancouver.

Olmstead made his national team debut in 2015 and played six games for the national team in 2016, scoring his first try in a game against Samoa in November. At the club level Olmstead earned his way onto the Newcastle Falcons in the English Premiership where he has become a fixture in the starting lineup.