{"id":7832,"date":"2026-06-12T11:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianrugbyfoundation.ca\/?p=7832"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:36:28","slug":"george-owens-selected-2026-dave-huang-memorial-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianrugbyfoundation.ca\/index.php\/george-owens-selected-2026-dave-huang-memorial-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"George Owens Selected 2026 Dave Huang Memorial Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Huge congratulations to George Owens of Sutherland Secondary School, this year’s recipient of the Dave Huang Memorial Award!<\/p>\n

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Mike Kilgallin, David Rae, and Aaron Mittler
\npresenting George Owens with trophy and a $5,000 check.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Selected from a standout group of candidates, George excels in academics, music, and community leadership. His rugby career began in Grade 6 with the Capilano Rugby Club and has since taken him to the representative level with Vancouver North and Team BC. A natural captain, he was recently honored with the Bruce Bowman Spirit Award for his on-field leadership.<\/p>\n

George is just as impressive off the field, maintaining a 90%+ academic average through Grades 10\u201312 ahead of pursuing an Engineering degree. Deeply committed to giving back, he even built his Capstone project around a youth rugby initiative while coaching his school\u2019s bantam team all the way to the city championship final.<\/p>\n

We can’t wait to see where George’s future endeavours take him!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Huge congratulations to George Owens of Sutherland Secondary School, this year’s recipient of the Dave Huang Memorial Award! Mike Kilgallin, David Rae, and Aaron Mittler presenting George Owens with trophy and a $5,000 check. Selected from a standout group of candidates, George excels in academics, music, and community leadership. His rugby career began in Grade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianrugbyfoundation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianrugbyfoundation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianrugbyfoundation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianrugbyfoundation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianrugbyfoundation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7832"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/canadianrugbyfoundation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7842,"href":"https:\/\/canadianrugbyfoundation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions\/7842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianrugbyfoundation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianrugbyfoundation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianrugbyfoundation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianrugbyfoundation.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}