{{Short description|Canada international rugby union player & coach}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Tony Healy | image = | caption = | full_name = Anthony Robert Arthur Healy | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|07|17}} | birth_place = Nanaimo, BC, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | height = 6 ft 6 in | weight = 252 lb | occupation = Educator | school = | university = University of Victoria | relatives = | position = Lock | repyears1 = 1996–99 | repteam1 = {{nrut|Canada}} | repcaps1 = 15 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Anthony Robert Arthur Healy''' (born July 17, 1969) is a Canadian former rugby union player and coach.
==Biography== ===Playing career=== Born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Healy was a lock and played on the Canada national team from 1996 to 1999, gaining 15 caps for his country.<ref>{{cite news |title=Healy's License To Thrill Tokyo |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/932078936 |work=Sports Argus |date=April 24, 1999}}</ref> He had several seasons of professional rugby in France playing with US Marmande, US Dax, FC Auch, Aviron Bayonnais and Bordeaux-Bègles, as well as a season in England at Moseley.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nérac. L'Ovalie canadienne en Albret |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2013/04/01/1595727-nerac-l-ovalie-canadienne-en-albret.html |work=La Dépêche |date=April 1, 2013 |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Healy Returns For Cup Clash |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/849399561 |work=Birmingham Evening Mail |date=November 3, 1998}}</ref>
===Rugby coach=== Healy, formerly a teacher at Brentwood College School, coached the BC Bears to a Canadian Rugby Championship title in 2017 and was then appointed head coach of Major League Rugby's Seattle Seawolves, but visa difficulties meant he couldn't take up the position.<ref>{{cite web |title=Healy and Mack to lead Seattle Seawolves |url=https://www.americasrugbynews.com/2017/10/02/healy-mack-lead-seattle-seawolves/ |website=Americas Rugby News |date=October 2, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Phil Mack wasn't the Seawolves' first choice for head coach, but he's proven to be the right choice |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/other-sports/phil-mack-wasnt-the-seawolves-first-choice-for-head-coach-but-hes-proved-to-be-the-right-choice/ |work=The Seattle Times |date=July 6, 2018}}</ref>
==See also== *List of Canada national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|12249}}
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