Ed was first introduced to Rugby at the age of six at St. Michaels University School. He captained the senior team to the School’s third ever BC Rugby High School AAA Championship and was named to the Captains Fifteen as the top player. Ed also represented the Oak Bay Castaway Wanders, Vancouver Island Crimson Tide, Under 17 BC team, and captained the first Under 17 Canadian national tour. He represented Canada at the Under 19 level before joining the Under 23 National Development program at the Commonwealth Centre for Sport Development.

Ed was part of the Canadian Under 19 national team that competed at the Junior Rugby World Cup in France. He was named MVP of the Canadian team and Canada finish 4th in the world.

Ed played for the Senior National Men’s 15’s team and was also selected to the National Men’s 7’s team that competed in the Rugby 7’s World Cup in Hong Kong and 2002 Commonwealth Games.

During his first few years on the national team, Ed also played for the University of Victoria Vikes and was named Male Athlete of the year in 2004. From 2006 to 2009, Ed amassed over 60 appearances for his professional clubs.

Ed competed in three Rugby World Cups and over his 12-year career, earned 57 caps for Canada.

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Growing up in Victoria, Bobby Ross was a multi-sport athlete, playing high school rugby, basketball and soccer, as well as baseball outside school. He was part of an extraordinary 1st XV at St. Michaels University School that went 14-0 in his final year and was the Vancouver Island Single A basketball MVP on a championship team.

Shortly after graduation, he was selected to the Canadian Junior Baseball Team and competed in the World Junior Championships in 1987, batting .376 as Canada won the Bronze medal. A college baseball scholarship took him to Washington State for a year, but rugby lured him home, where he played for the University of Victoria (UVic) and captained the Canadian Junior Team to Wales in 1988. In his first game for UVic against UBC in the famous "Boot" rivalry, he stroked a 55m drop goal at the death to win the game!

First capped in Victoria at inside centre against Ireland in 1989 at 20 years of age, Bobby went on to become one of the finest rugby players ever to play for Canada. He was capped 57 times between 1989 and 2003 and, throughout his playing years, he was a prodigious kicker of punts, drop kicks, conversions and penalty goals, scoring 421 test points which ranked him as Canada's third all-time scorer. On retirement, he was ranked 14th all-time in international rugby scoring. A versatile player, he was capped in the centre, wing and fullback positions but spent the majority of his career at fly half, where he read the game beautifully.

Bobby began his rugby career with the Castaways and, during his UVic years, was l989 Junior Varsity Athlete of the Year. He played with the famed James Bay Athletic Association through six Island and four Provincial titles and was four-time club MVP. He played for both Junior and Senior Crimson Tide and Team BC. Against Wales in 1997, a 56m drop goal at the opening kickoff plus a try in that game earned him a professional contract with Cardiff in the Welsh Premier League, playing in the European (Heineken) Cup, and helping pioneer Canadians in the European game. An injury in the Welsh Cup final ended his pro career but Bobby continued playing domestically and for Canada.

He captained the Canadian Under 19, Under 21 and Senior Men's teams and was once capped for all three in the same year. He represented Canada in three World Cups (1995, 1999, 2003), set the Canadian record for drop goals that still stands and is the all-time Pacific Rim Championships scoring leader. Always a team player, he came out of retirement for the 2003 World Cup and, in his last game for Canada, Bobby was named Man of the Match. Bobby has been inducted into the BC Rugby Hall of Fame and is honoured and humbled to be inducted into the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame.