Magali Harvey

Magali Harvey (born August 16, 1990) is a former Canadian rugby union and sevens player and coach. She represented Canada at numerous sevens tournaments, the 2014 Rugby World Cup, the 2017 Rugby World Cup, as well as playing professionally in New Zealand, Spain, and France. She served as head coach of the McGill Martlets women's rugby program between 2016 and 2021. Harvey is widely considered to be among the best Canadian, and international, womens rugby players ever.

Early life and education Harvey began playing rugby in high school in Quebec where her speed and elusiveness quickly put her on the radar of Rugby Canada's sevens program, being invited to the U-20 team despite being relatively new to the sport. After graduating from high school and completing a CEGEP, she would enroll at St. Francis Xavier University to study Business Administration, becoming a starter for the X-women rugby program. Harvey's X-women side would go on to win the Canadian University Championships in 2010, where she would be named Atlantic Conference Rookie of the Year and Canadian Championship MVP. Harvey and the X-women would play in the national championship again in 2011 and 2012, winning in 2012.

Harvey would return to a Canadian university rugby program for the 2022-23 season, joining the Queens Gaels to complete an MBA. The Gaels would go on to win an OUA Championship before falling to the Laval Rouge-er-Or in the U Sports title match.

Rugby career

Harvey was first capped for Canada in 2011, joining the women's sevens team. She represented at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. She was named IRB Women’s Player of the Year 2014 and was the first Canadian to receive the award.

She won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games as a member of the Canadian women's rugby sevens team.

Honors 2014, WRWC Dream Team 2014, International Rugby Players Women’s 15s Try of the Decade 2014, IRB Women's Player of the year 2020, World Rugby Player of the Decade in 15-a-side rugby (nominee)