Thyssen de Goede

A native of Victoria, British Columbia, de Goede is of Dutch descent and comes from a rugby playing family, with his father Hans and mother Stephanie both captaining Canada at Rugby World Cups.[1] His younger sister Sophie is also a Canadian representative player. He was educated at Georges P. Vanier Secondary School.[2]

A back-row forward, de Goede started playing rugby with his school team at age 15 and represented Canada at the 2008 IRB Junior World Championship.[3] He had several years with the Canada rugby sevens team, including an appearance at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.[4] In 2015, de Goede debuted for the Canada XV as the blindside flanker against Japan at the 2015 Pacific Nations Cup and was capped a second time off the bench against Samoa later in the tournament.[5]