Alumni Profile: Mike Little ‘90

Mike Little’s music career continues on the fast track. This past September, Mike was named Keyboard Player of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards. The previous year Mike had a gold record and Juno Award for his work with the Road Hammers. This month Mike is touring the Persian Gulf with George Canyon, a multi-award winning Canadian country musician. They will be playing for troops in Dubai and at a couple of secret bases. Mike is always ‘giving back’ and each year he donates to Shawnigan to make possible the Mike Little Music Award for a talented student to pursue his or her music. – Steve Housser ‘67 Director of Advancement

San Diego USA Sevens Event

Thirty Shawnigan Old Boys, friends and family members spent the weekend of Feb. 8/10 attending the IRB Sevens World Series rugby tournament held annually in San Diego.
On Thursday and Friday there was a men’s club Sevens tournament, including a UVic squad coached by Rick Farrally ‘63, as well as a women’s International Sevens competition ultimately won by the USA ‘A’ team which defeated the Canada ‘A’ team in the final.
In the men’s International competition on Saturday and Sunday, a powerful New Zealand team defeated South Africa 27-12 in the final. Our Canadian men had a somewhat disappointing weekend on the field, losing some closely contested matches in the last minute of play.
On Friday night more than two hundred Canadian rugby fans as well as the Canadian men’s and women’s sevens squads attended a supporters’ party at Henry’s Pub. This social was very well organized by the Rugby Canada Foundation and a significant amount of money was raised during the evening in support of Canadian Rugby.
Not to be outdone by last year’s group, some of the more adventurous among us traveled on Saturday evening to and from Tijuana by private limousine to enjoy a memorable evening meal.
On Sunday evening, some of us gathered at a downtown hotel to salute the Canadian men’s team and to bid adieu to each other until next year’s event.
Thanks once again to Matthuw Ronald-Jones for organizing the San Diego weekend for the Shawnigan group. It was great to have Headmaster Robertson among us for the weekend.
Fellow SLOBS, if you like watching exciting sevens rugby, you should seriously consider joining us next February in sunny San Diego! To whet your appetite check the usasevens.com website for a description of this year’s event. – John Creighton ‘62