Aidan Taylor Cracks Seneca Rugby Roster

Thamesville’s Aidan Taylor is taking his rugby skills to the big city this fall, as the local athlete has made the Seneca College Sting men’s rugby team.

For Taylor, who played this summer for the Kent Havoc Men’s team, making the Seneca Sting is a big step; one he’s excited to take.

“It’s a great feeling to know that I can play a game with people who have played for years in higher levels of rugby then I have, and it’s great to think how much I’ll be able to learn from playing in a college level,” says Taylor.

Coming from the Kent Havoc, who finished second in the Niagara Rugby Union “B” division this year, and before that, playing for the UCC Lancers rugby team, Taylor found the intensity of the training to be an adjustment in the opening days at Seneca.

“The training was unlike anything I’m used to because the Havoc are a bunch of guys who work on skills rather than the fitness, where here everyone who plays is young and fit and the coaches run you to death,” said Taylor of the challenges of training camp.

Taylor however, who was a rookie with the Havoc this season, credited his experience playing with the Chatham-Kent based club for allowing him to develop and take this step.

“It’s only because of Havoc that I am the rugby player that I am,” he said.

The Seneca Sting men’s rugby team will kick off their 2014 schedule September 12 when they travel to face St. Lawrence College.