League: Major League Rugby

Founded in 2017 with it’s inaugural season played in 2018, Major League Rugby (MLR) is the highest level of professional rugby in North America.

GastĂ³n Mieres

Uruguayan winger/fullback GastĂ³n Mieres played in Major League Rugby between 2019-2022. He represented the Toronto Arrows for his entire MLR career.

Mieres began playing rugby at a young age for Lobos, his local club in Punta del Este, Uruguay. He caught the eyes of Los Teros early, progressing through he Uruguayan age-grades and he earning his international debut in May 2010 against Brazil. represented Uruguay at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens and began playing professionally in 2014, signing with Valpolicella in the Italian second tier before earning a short-term contract with Coventry in the English Championship in 2015. Following his stint in England, Mieres returned to Uruguay and Lobos. He again represented Uruguay at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco in 2018, and is one of Uruguay’s most capped players, having represented Los Teros at several Sudamerica Championships, Nations Cups, and Americas Rugby Championships, as well as at 3 Rugby World Cups in 2015, 2019, and 2023.

Mieres signed with the Toronto Arrows ahead of their inaugural MLR season in 2019, and played with them for 4 seasons, earning 36 appearances (32 starts) and with 15 tries scored, he is the Toronto Arrows All-Time leading Try Scorer. Although never recording over 1000m gained, he is also the Arrows’ all-time leader in that category, with 2,681m gained across his 4 seasons in Toronto.

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Avery Oitomen

Ontario native Avery Oitomen played in Major League Rugby in 2019, and again between 2023-2024. He represented the Toronto Arrows (2019, 2023) and the Miami Sharks (2024).

Oitomen played football through school, picking up rugby when he was 13 and played for the Ontario U16 in 2014 and the U19 side in 2016 , also representing the Canadian U17s, as well as the U19s in 2018. He played with the Toronto Arrows during their inaugural MLR season in 2019, scoring 6 tries in 11 games (8 starts) for the Arrows, behind only captain Dan Moor with 7.

Following the 2019 season, Oitomen stepped away from the Arrows to pursue a degree at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales before returning to the team for their 2023 season, earning an additional 6 appearances (4 starts) and scoring another try. Following the 2023 season, Oitomen was selected by the Miami Sharks in the 2023 Expansion draft, coming a few months before the Arrows announced that they would not be competing in the 2024 season in late November 2023. On 7th January 2024, the Miami Sharks confirmed the signing of Avery Oitomen ahead of their inaugural season in 2024 when he started 5 times in 10 games for the Sharks as they recorded a respectable and competitive 5-11 inaugural season. Oitomen earned a MLR Team of the Week selection for his performance in Rd 11 of that season.

achievements

  • MLR Team of the Week: 2024 – Rd 11
  • MLR Team of the Week: 2019 – Rd 7

Guiseppe du Toit

BC native Guiseppe du Toit played in Major League Rugby between 2019-2022, and again between 2024-2025. He represented the Toronto Arrows (2019-2022) and the Miami Sharks (2024-2025).

Du Toit attended the University of Victoria between 2013-2018, playing rugby for the UVic Vikes throughout. He represented the Canadian U20 side in 2015 and played with the BC Bears between 2017-2018, during which time he also played with Canada A in the Americas Pacific Challenge. He earned his full test debut for Canada against Chile in February 2017 during the ARC, and represented his country through the 2018 iteration and their 2019 Rugby World Cup qualifying campaign. His last test cap came at that World Cup in Japan, against South Africa.

Du Toit is an original Arrow, having played in the club’s first ever game in 2017 against the Glendale Raptors, and spent 4 seasons playing with Toronto, earning a total of 33 caps between 2019-2022 (31 starts), scoring 7 tries. In 2020, he joined the Trinity Western University Rugby team as the backs coach and would later attend TWU himself, playing there between 2021-2023. Du Toit did not play in the 2023 MLR season, but the Miami Sharks expansion side announced his signing on 7th January 2024, ahead of their inaugural MLR season in 2024.

Du Toit appeared in all 16 games of the Sharks’ inaugural MLR season, starting 6 times and scoring 1 try on 264m gained in possession as the Sharks finished with a respected 6-10 record, including a shock victory over the reigning champion New England Free Jacks. With the Sharks not qualifying for the MLR post-season, du Toit joined the Vancouver Highlanders (Canada’s only Pro Rugby Team following the demise of the Arrows) for their ‘Rugby Players’ Challenge’ exhibition season in summer/fall 2024, making his Highlanders debut against the German national side in July 2024. On 3rd November 2024, the Miami Sharks announced the return of Guiseppe du Toit for their 2025 MLR campaign.

achievements:

  • MLR Team of the Week: 2019 – Round 13
  • MLR Team of the Week: 2019 – Round 4

Cole Keith

Canadian International prop Cole Keith has been playing in Major League Rugby since 2019. He was a member of the Toronto Arrows between 2019-2022, and represented the New England Free Jacks from 2023-2025.

New Brunswick native Cole Keith is a Canadian international prop, representing his country at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. He played with the Toronto Arrows during their first MLR campaign that same year, and earned 46 appearances for the Arrows between 2019-2022, scoring all 3 of his MLR tries to date in 2022. On 25th September 2022, it was announced that Keith had been traded from the Toronto Arrows to the New England Free Jacks in exchange for 2023 Cap Considerations. Shortly after, on October 6th, 2022, the New England Free Jacks announced that they had signed Keith ahead of the 2023 MLR season.

Keith was the 37th player in MLR history to reach 50 caps in the competition, earning his 50th during the Free Jacks’ 2023 Shield winning season where he earned 11 starts in 15 games. Keith followed this up with another 6 starts in 13 appearances to help the Free Jacks secure back-to-back Shields in 2024, where he earned his 500th career MLR tackle. On November 21st, 2024, the Free Jacks announced the return of Cole Keith for the 2025 season alongside Paula Balekana, Conor Keys, and Ethan Fryer. Keith would earn 5 additional appearances for the Free Jacks in 2025, starting once and completing 11 tackles in limited game time to help the Free Jacks to secure their (and his) third straight MLR Shield. This took his MLR career totals to 47 starts in 79 appearances between the Toronto Arrows and New England Free Jacks, scoring 3 tries (all for Toronto in 2022) and completing 517 tackles with over 1,100m gained as a front row.

Following the 2025 season and MLR adjusting their domestic player classification to no longer include Canadians, the New England Free Jacks were forced to cut many of their Canadian players and rebuild their squad. Keith was one of these players and the team thanked him and wished him well, with staff trying to find a position for Keith and other departing Canadians on other teams both in MLR and abroad. Eventually on 26th January 2026, JP Sports Collective announced that Cole Keith had signed with the Doncaster Knights in the English Championship.

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