Toronto Arrows & Paul Ciulini

The Toronto Arrows signed Canada lock Paul Ciulini for the 2019 Major League Rugby season. The 23-year-old is 6’5″, and weighs 265 pounds.

Ciulini is from Vaughan, Ontario and attended St. Joan of Arc Catholic High School and was a highly ranked throwing the javelin. After graduation, he went to the University of Toronto majoring in Chemistry and played rugby for the Varsity Blues. He was also selected for the 2015 OUA All-Stars.

Ciulini began playing rugby at an early age with the Aurora Barbarians beginning about 2007 with the Under-12s.

Provincial and Professional Rugby

Paul Ciulini has played for the Rugby Ontario Provincial team, the Ontario Blues and has played in several Canadian Rugby Championships.

In 2016 he signed an Academy contract with the Perpignan ProD2 in France. During 2018, played exhibition matches with the then Ontario Arrows and is among the first athletes to sign with the Toronto Arrows for the 2019 Major League Rugby season.

National Team

Playing in the Canada National Team program came in 2013, with his selection for the Under-18s tour to Romania. In 2015, He played in the World Rugby Under-20s Trophy competition, winning a silver medal.

Ciulini debuted with the Senior National team against Uruguay on February 6, 2016, in the Americas Rugby Championship. The last of his 8 tests occurred against the U.S. in Halifax, Nova Scotia on June 23, 2018.

He also played for Canada Selects against the Ontario Arrows in Vancouver and Castres in Lacaune, France in 2018 and also in the Americas Pacific Challenge for Canada A.

Currently, the Senior Men’s National Team had two matches in England beating Oxford University on Oct. 31, and Coventry on Nov. 5. With all touring team members needing playing time, Paul played against Oxford and was rested against Coventry.

With these preliminary matches completed, the team now turns its attention to emerging from the World Rugby Repechage in France against Kenya, Germany, and Hong Kong to advance to the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.