The Seattle Seawolves re-signed Kellen Gordon for the 2021 Major League Rugby season, his fourth with the team. The 32-year-old loosehead prop/hooker (33 in April) is 6’2″, and 250 lbs. Kellen played 104 minutes in all five 2020 matches as a reserve for the Seawolves. In 2019 he played 648 minutes in 17 matches, starting 5, and scored 2 tries. He carried 40 times for 206 meters, had 1 linebreak, 2 offloads, and made 79 tackles. In 2018 he played 312 minutes in 9 matches, while starting 4 times. Kellen Gordon was born in Kenmore, Washington and started playing rugby…

Seattle Seawolves signed Juan Pablo “JP” Aguirre Romero for the 2021 Major League Rugby season. The 26-year-old center (27 in April) is 6’1″ and 200 lbs. Juampi played with Rugby United New York in 2020. After playing in the preseason at center and wing, he was a reserve in the fourth week of the season. In November he played with the London Royals at the World Tens Series in Bermuda. In 2019he played his rookie MLR season with the Austin Herd playing 435 minutes in seven matches, starting six, and scoring two points from a conversion. He carried 30 times…

The Seattle Seawolves re-signed Stephan Coetzee for the 2021 Major League Rugby season. The 28-year-old South African hooker (29 in January) is 6’1″ and 250 lbs. Stephan started weeks 3 and 4 and was a reserve in week 5 during the truncated MLR season. He then played in the World Tens Series in Bermuda for the London Royals. Stephan played 1085 minutes in 18 matches, scoring 8 tries, carrying 65 times for 323 meters, and making 204 tackles. He is an important cog in the front row that makes the Seawolves a leading scrummaging team and one that has led…

The Seattle Seawolves re-signed Ross Neal for the 2021 Major League Rugby season. The 26-year-old center is 6’5″ and 240bs. The Seawolves had high expectations for the former Wasps center for the 2020 season, as he scored a try against the Vancouver Island Crimson Tide and two more against the Tasman Makos in the preseason matches. However, a broken thumb in his opening regular-season match at outside center derailed him for the rest of the COVID-19 shortened season. Following the truncated season, Ross signed a short-term contract with the London Irish, an English Premiership club, and later played with the…

The Seattle Seawolves have re-signed Andrew Durutalo for the 2021 Major League Rugby season. The 33-year-old back row is 6’1″ and 240 lbs. Drew started one match against Old Glory DC in 2020 with an injury curtailing the rest of the COVID-19 shortened season. Since the season ended, he enrolled at the University of Oxford in an EMBA program that he expects to complete in 2021. Andrew Mataininotu Van Slyke Mataininotu Durutalo was born in New York City and moved with his family to Suva, Fiji. He graduated in 2007 from Suva Grammar Secondary School and after graduation went to…

The Seattle Seawolves re-signed Mike Shepherd for the 2021 Major League Rugby season. The 31-year-old hooker is 6’1″ and 255 lbs. Mike played in four matches, starting twice, during the truncated 2020 MLR season. Mike played well to begin the 2019 season before an injury derailed his season. In the four matches he played, he made the most of his 64 minutes of playing time, carrying six times for 20 meters and making six tackles. Mike also helped the team win the 2018 MLR Championship, playing 137 minutes in five matches, and played with the Seattle Saracens in the BC…