After basketball stint together, sisters look to reunite on rugby sevens team
Sisters Megan and Kaili Lukan, who played basketball together at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, are on the verge of a sporting reunion — this time with the Canadian women’s rugby sevens team.
Coach John Tait included the sisters from Barrie, Ont., in a 14-player training squad ahead of next week’s Sydney Sevens. The final 12-woman team will be selected Sunday or Monday.
At 24, Megan is two years older than Kaili. She made the transition to rugby in April 2015 and was a member of the bronze medal team at the Rio Olympics.
Kaili finished at Wisconsin-Green Bay in May and came out to Victoria in September to join the rugby team. She hadn’t played the sport since high school.