Getting to Know...Meghan Buchanan

X-Women Rugby center Meghan Buchanan is the latest athlete featured in our Getting to Know your X-Women and X-Men series throughout the summer. Meghan is a fourth year Business student from Lethbridge, Alta.

If I could be StFX President for a day I would?
You get a Rita wrap! You get a Rita wrap! Everybody gets a Rita wrap!

My teammates would use this one word to describe me?
Funky, apparently

When I am not studying or playing my sport, in my spare time I like to?
Fire up my beloved sewing machine!

If I could have lunch with anyone in the world, it would be with?
Miley Cyrus, circa 2013

My biggest pet peeve is?
I'll let my roommates answer this one...

My dream job is?
One that won't feel like work

If I could compete in any other sport at StFX it would be?
Hockey!

If I could come out at the start of a game to an entrance song, it would be?
The only right answer, '"X gon' give it to ya"

Something interesting about my hometown is?
Is the prime location of the first ever Taco Time

My favorite moment to date as a StFX student-athlete is?
Standing shoulder to shoulder, linked up with my girls at centre field at Acadia University waiting for Dani Downey to kick for conversion with no time left on the clock for the final whistle to blow. Knowing that the moment that whistle went, my family and I would clinch the 2018 National Championship title will be a moment and feeling I will never forget.

Favorite class?  A gender and management class I took in 3rd year!

Favorite place to study?  Comfort of my own home with a large cup of coffee

Favorite food?  My mom's leftover thanksgiving dinner casserole, hands down 

Favorite summer activity?  Playing rugby in the sun, and taking my pup to the mountains!

Favorite animated movie?  Mulan; an underrated classic

Favorite social media platform?  Twitter; another underrated classic

Favorite TV show?  A toss-up between Please Like Me & HIMYM

Favorite item of clothing?  Any one of my overalls, without a doubt

Favorite mobile app?  Currently SkipTheDishes... a bad habit

Favorite pro sports team?  Go Leafs

Favorite pro sports athlete?  Serena Williams