Adrian Rainbow

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Adrian Rainbow (born July 24, 1970 in British Columbia ) is a former Canadian football player who also has British citizenship.

career

Rainbow played as a quarterback at the University of British Columbia in his native Canada from 1992 to 1995 , while studying English literature and philosophy. In 1995 he was named to the Team of the Year of the Canadian University League. When draft process of the Canadian Football League was Rainbow 1996 53 out of the Montreal Alouettes selected.

From 1997 he played with the Braunschweig Lions in Germany and initially stayed with the Lower Saxony until the end of the 2000 season. With Braunschweig he won the German championship in 1997, 1998 and 1999 and the Eurobowl in 1999 . He then continued his studies in English at the University of Exeter . During his second stop in Braunschweig (2003 to 2006) further titles were added: German Champion 2005 and 2006 as well as the victory in the Eurobowl 2003. In the game years 2007 and 2008 Rainbow was in the service of another German first division, namely the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes . As a playmaker, the Canadian was particularly noted for his leadership qualities and his ability to make few mistakes on the pitch.

In 2008 Rainbow completed his PhD on the poetics of emancipation at the University of Exeter . At the beginning of 2009 he took up a position as a university lecturer in English at the University of Zurich and from 2010 played as a quarterback for the Zurich Renegades . In 2010 he was accepted into the Braunschweig Lions Hall of Fame . The number three on his back is no longer given by the Braunschweig team in memory of Rainbows achievements. Rainbow worked at the University of Zurich until summer 2014, after which he worked as a professor at the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales until 2017 . In August 2017, he started teaching at Sevenoaks School in England.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Kornath: "I thought Braunschweig was like Bavaria". In: InSport. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c https://uk.linkedin.com/in/adrian-rainbow-2a861019a
  3. ↑ The Top 100 UBC Football Players: 40-36. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ 1996 CFL Draft - Pro Football Archives. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
  5. ^ New York Lions: History. October 30, 2019, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Karl Schlicker: Rainbow leads the Lions on. May 5, 2019, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  7. ^ University of Exeter: The poetics of emancipation: critical pedagogy, radical aesthetics, and contemporary fiction . Exeter 2008 ( exeter.ac.uk [accessed February 15, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Rainbow strengthens the Renegades. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Holger Fricke: 2010: Adrian Rainbow. June 6, 2017, accessed February 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Rainbow, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-British American football player
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH British Columbia