The University of Calgary football Dinos confirmed the
signing of running back Robbie Rodrigues to a U Sports Letter of Intent. Rodrigues becomes the fourth member of the
2017 Okanagan Sun to decide to make the transition to U Sports football.
U Sports
football is not new to the 21-year-old Rodrigues. The native of Burnaby, B.C.
made the cross-Canada trek in 2015 dressing for seven of nine games for Mount
Allison University Mounties of the Atlantic University Sports Conference. He
intended on heading back East to play for Saint Mary’s but chose to remain with
the Sun for the 2017 season.
“Robbie is a hard-nosed
runner with breakaway speed. He had a great success as a running back in Junior
Football and we look forward him to being with our program,” stated Head Coach
Wayne Harris.
Rodrigues joined
the Sun midway through last year after deciding not to return to the East Coast
enrolling at UBC Okanagan in Kelowna.
In 2017 he was the starting tailback for the Sun earning Most Sportsmanlike
Player honors for the Sun.
“Calgary is close to home
and I want to win a Vanier Cup. Calgary has good
facilities and they have the tools to help me succeed at the next level,”
states Rodrigues who hopes to transfer courses into the Haskayne School of
Business and has been attending the University
of Calgary during the
winter 2018 semester.
Robbie attended Burnaby Mountain High School
but did not play High School football as his team did not have a High School
team but honed his skills for the Coquitlam Midget Falcons where he was a
Midget all-star.
Rodrigues has
three years of U Sports eligibility remaining and is the son of Angelina and
step father Jean Michael.
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