Carlin Isles
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| Full name | Carlin Russell Isles | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | November 21, 1989 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Massillon, Ohio, United States | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| University | Ashland University | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | ||
| 2013 | Gentlemen of Aspen RFC | ||
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| Years | Club / team | Comps | |
| 2012– | United States | 22 (285; 57t) | |
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Correct as of 2 September 2015
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Carlin Isles (born November 21, 1989) is an American rugby union and rugby sevens player. Isles plays for the United States national rugby sevens team. Isles had been touted as the fastest rugby player in the world.
Isles and his twin sister, Tambra, grew up Massillion, Ohio in foster homes, rarely seeing their mother. Often hungry, he ate what he could as a child, including dog food. At the age of seven the siblings were adopted by Starlett and Charles Isles; Isles credits his adoptive parents with providing the stability and love he needed to excel in sports.
Carlin Isles was a gifted American football and Track and Field athlete while attending Jackson High School (Massillon, Ohio). Isles holds the school records in the long jump, 100 meter, 200 meter, and 400 meter events at Jackson. He was also a part of the record holding 4 × 200 m relay team at Jackson High School. His 2007 100m school record breaking time was 10.58 seconds which was also a county record at that time. Carlin was a two-time, back-to-back OATCCC Indoor State Champion in high school in the 60m dash running 6.83 seconds which was a Division I meet record up until March 2012. He was a state runner-up in the 200m dash his junior year and runner-up in the long jump and 100m dash his senior year in addition to being third in the state in the 100m dash his junior year. In his senior year at Jackson High School, Isles ran a 4.28 second, electronically timed 40 yard dash. Carlin was an all-conference, all-county football player as well.
Isles continued running track and playing American football while enrolled at Ashland University where he was an All-American in the 60m dash and ran a personal best of 6.68 seconds which is a school record. He holds freshman class records in the 100m dash and 200m dash (indoor and outdoor). On the football field, Carlin was an All-GLIAC selection and holds school records for most kickoff return yardage in a game (174 yards) and longest kickoff return for TD (100 yards)
Before taking up rugby in 2012, Isles ranked as the 36th fastest sprinter in the United States with a 100 metres outdoor personal best of 10.24 seconds.
Isles took up the sport of rugby in 2012. He was encouraged to begin playing rugby by Miles Craigwell, another crossover athlete from American football who ended up playing rugby for the United States national team. Isles played his club rugby with the Gentlemen of Aspen RFC, based in Aspen, Colorado.
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