RUGBURN - Tanner Buck on Winning the Founders Cup, World Junior Gold, Minto Cup, and What's Next

Tanner Buck on Winning the Founders Cup, World Junior Gold, Minto Cup, and What's Next

07/25/20 • 33 min

In Episode 4 of RUGBURN we talk with current Orangeville Northmen (OJALL) forward Tanner Buck. Tanner played for Canada at the 2018 IIJL World Junior Lacrosse Championship in Saskatoon, SK where he was named to the All-World Team as a Forward. Then he made the trip to Prague, Czech Republic to play in the 2019 ELF E-Box tournament.

Tanner talks about growing up playing in the lacrosse-hotbed of Orangeville, ON, winning a Junior B Founders Cup, World Junior Gold, and Junior A Minto Cup back-to-back-to-back, the possibility of Junior players being granted a additional year because of the pandemic, and what's next heading into the upcoming National Lacrosse League (NLL) entry draft.

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For our fifth episode, Season 2, Episode 1, of RUGBURN we connect with Jack Stokes all the way from down-under in Sydney, Australia. Jack was an alternate captain for Australia at the 2019 IIJL World Junior Lacrosse Championship (WJLC) in Mississauga, Ontario where he helped anchor the Aussie defence in their historic World Juniors debut.

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