Austin Gilgronis Adds Reegan O'Gorman

Austin Gilgronis signed Reegan O’Gorman for the 2021 Major League Rugby season. The 24-year-old Canadian international lock is 6’6″ (1.98m) and 265 lbs (118 kg).

Reegan is from Vancouver, Canada, and attended Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School. He played for the Canada U18s and then the U20s in 2016 at the World Rugby Trophy competition in Portugal. He made his Senior National Team debut against Chile at Langford on 11 February 2017 and his last of his 4 caps was against Brazil at Pacaembu on 3 March 2017. The two matches that he started in the Americas Rugby Championship in 2017 was against the United States and Uruguay.

Reegan overcame two season-ending injuries scattered throughout the last three years.

Reegan has played rugby for Marist Albion Rugby Club in Christchurch, New Zealand from 2015-2018, and missed the club season in 2019 while he played with the Canadian Rugby World Cup Training Squad. He also played with South Canterbury in 2018 and in 2019 in the New Zealand Heartland Championship prior to returning home for a centralized contract with Canada.

He also played club rugby with the Vancouver Rowing Club and for the UBC Thunderbirds during the 2019-2020 season. During the 2020 MLR season, Reegan agreed to terms on a contract with the Toronto Arrows just before COVID-19 canceled the remainder of the MLR season.

In 2021 he will make his MLR debut for the Austin Gilgronis.

Austin Gilgronis Comments

Austin Gilgronis is elated to announce the signing of Canadian lock, Reegan O’Gorman. With the AGs, O’Gorman is looking to prove he can be a regular option in Canada’s forward pack for years to come.

AGs head coach Sam Harris sees great potential in Reegan O’Gorman. “Reegan is still relatively early in his progression and learning his craft,” says Harris. “He has been plying his trade in Christchurch for the last couple of years and that shows his willingness to invest in himself, Reegan is a hard worker and destined for big things.”

First, he’ll have to earn playing time in a second-row unit headlined by recently announced AG signee Sebastian de Chaves and local hero Christian Ostberg. “I don’t really see it as a competition, I see it more as an opportunity to learn,” says O’Gorman. “I’m lucky that we have some quality guys like Seb and CEO (Christian Ostberg) on the AGs that I can learn from, so I can get a leg up on other locks in the world.”

The lock’s mindset fits perfectly into his new head coach’s Sam expectation for the young lock. “Reegan has a big frame that is still filling out,” says Sam Harris. “I expect Reegan to continue his journey and learn from our experienced campaigners and surprise people with his aggression.”

In the coming seasons, O’Gorman will have opportunities to go head-to-head against four of the five Canadian locks on RugbyCanada’s Rugby World Cup roster. He’ll also have an opportunity to play in front of Canadian selectors when the AGs take on Toronto Arrows on Canadian soil in 2021.

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