Aussie Oirbans Finding a
Home on the Canadian Prairie
By Scott Taylor,
Photos by Kelly Morton, University of Winnipeg
Both Ryan Oirbans and Mike
Raimbault simply shrug when they’re
asked to describe how Oirbans, the
6-foot-9 power forward, got from
Melbourne, Australia, to the University
of Winnipeg. In fact, they both make it
sound so simple, you have to wonder
why everybody doesn’t do it all the
time.
“We got a tip,” said U of W men’s
basketball coach Raimbault, matterof-factly. “I contacted him, he was keen
to try something new and we got lucky.
How do you recruit anybody? He was
a younger gu K