Roadrunner QB makes Team BC


Tanner Pearce will represent British Columbia next month when he goes to Nova Scotia to play football with Team BC.

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You always have to watch the quiet ones.

Sitting across from Tanner Pearce, the calm, centered, multi-sport athlete, you’d be hard-pressed to imagine him laying someone out on the football field or helming the offensive game for the Mission Roadrunners.

But the unassuming Grade 11 student can do both and further proved his chops by making Football BC’s provincial team.

Pearce, who has been playing football since Grade 8, made the squad and will play free safety at the upcoming nationals in Nova Scotia July 10-17. The team of 16-18 year olds will play at least three games one day apart, with a fourth possible if they make the finals.

The Team BC selection began in April with over 200 players from around the province attending one of four identification camps and 97 of those players were invited to a training camp at SFU at the end of May.

Pearce also plays lacrosse and basketball but within the last year he started to get noticed by other teams for his football prowess; his coach wasn’t surprised.

“Tanner is a very good multi-sport athlete, who I expect to be playing football someplace next year,” said Kevin Watrin. “He is a strong and smart football player. As a quarterback he throws a nice ball and can run our offense efficiently, but his greatest weapon is his escapability. When a play breaks down, he is quite difficult for opposing defenses to track down and tackle.”

Watrin added Pearce has an excellent opportunity to put his skills to the test against some of the best players in the country.

All for a student who started as a linebacker in Grade 8, earning defensively player of the year three years in a row.

“I tried at quarterback in Grade 8 and didn’t really like it,” he said.

When the team strategy went more to a passing game in Grade 10, Pearce decided to try his hand again at tossing the pigskin and found it fit better this time.

Going into his senior year, Pearce is excited about the Roadrunners’ potential for a provincial title. The team came close last year and many of the same players are returning, he explained.

Past that, he aims to push for a university football scholarship to help fully or partially fund education in architecture or engineering.

By Jason Roessle – Mission City Record
Published: June 30, 2010 10:00 AM
Updated: June 30, 2010 10:52 AM

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