At the end of April, Empire native Angus MacLellan of the professional rugby team, Utah Warriors, became the third player to reach 100 major league rugby appearances.
The 2011 Traverse City St. Francis graduate started playing rugby during his junior year as a gladiator.
“I played a couple of times during my junior year, and then I played a lot more during my senior year, and I really fell in love with it,” MacLellan said. “It’s a fun game where you’re not wearing tons of pads. You get to do a bit of everything. It’s not so specialized ... you play attack, you play defense, you carry the ball, you tackle, you do it all. You don’t just do one or two things.”
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