QUEENSLAND, Australia, CMC-An internationally capped Guyanese national who is now playing professional rugby in Australia says his ultimate dream is to compete in the highest standard of the sport there, the National Rugby League (NRL).
Kevin MacKenzie, who is playing in the lower ranked Intrust Super Cup, says he is determined to compete in the prestigious NRL involving 16 leading clubs.
Mackenzie, 26, has been representing the Sunshine Coast Sea Eagle, a relatively new team among 12 clubs vying for honour in the Intrust Super Cup.
“I still want to a play the highest standard here in Australia” declared Mackenzie who signed up with the sea eagles a year ago.
“So that’s what I’m working hard on it now.”
Mackenzie, who represented his native Guyana at the IRB World Sevens and the Commonwealth Games and has played for England and Ireland, is now settled in Queensland with his Australian wife Christine.
He grew up with his mother and seven siblings in the rough Waterloo Street neighborhood of Georgetown before he was spotted by a rugby scout.
The former student of St.George’s high who once dodged cars in Guyana to play street ball says his passion is to break into the NRL.
“I’m hoping to break into the National Rugby League soon as that is the highest standard,” said MacKenzie, CEO of ‘Kevin McKenzie Massage spas, beauty and personal Care Therapy’
“I would be very elated just to make it to the NRL, which is the National Rugby League.”
