Ghislaine Landry takes over for Jen Kish as Canada rugby sevens captain
Jen Kish may be back in action for the Canadian rugby sevens team but she won’t be captaining the squad.
Rugby Canada says veteran Ghislaine Landry, who led the team in Dubai in December when Kish was out injured, will continue as skipper at the Sydney Sevens.
The decision to change captains was made because Kish is no longer centralized with the team in Langford, B.C., and so is not part of the daily training environment, Rugby Canada said.
The 28-year-old Kish, who led Canada to the bronze medal at last summer’s Rio Olympics, has elected to train in her home town of Edmonton this season. Fellow veteran Ashley Steacy, 29, is doing the same thing out of Lethbridge, Alta.