andrew vilk born 11 june 1981 in hammersmith is a rugby union footballer who plays at centre for calvisano he plays in the forwards for england sevens and is a strong and powerful runnerfrom hammersmith his parents moved to goringonthames when he was very young he was educated at the oratory school near reading where he played both rugby and soccer until he was 17 at 18 he spent a year in new zealand aiding the physical education department at tauranga boys college and mentoring children with learning difficulties primarily helping develop reading skills he returned to take a geography degree at loughborough university and came under the gaze of mentor alan buzzafor the 200304 season andy joined northampton saints senior academy from loughborough university when he was the leading try scorer in the northern conference of the zurich a league he also made his first team debut against rotherham that season in 2006 he transferred to sale sharksin february 2005 andy made his england sevens debut in wellington and was a member of the winning side at the 2006 hong kong sevens he also won a commonwealth medal silver at melbourne he has also been a member of winning sides at tournaments in dubai los angeles and wellington in the irb world sevens series he has played 32 tournaments for england 26 consecutive 30 irb world sevens series tournaments 1 commonwealth games and the rugby sevens world cup in dubai 2009andy was the captain of the england sevens team in the 20072008 world series and beat new zealand for the first time in four years in the london leg of the 7s series the following week the england side reached the final of the edinburgh leg of the 7s serieshe joined benetton rugby treviso from sale sharks in 2008 with benetton treviso he won italian super 10 titles in both 200809 and 200910 andy scored the opening try of the 200809 final at romes stadio flaminio which benetton went on to win 2920 in the 200910 final andy scored the only try securing the man of the match award in a game benetton won 1612he played in 16 heineken cup matches in his three seasons with benetton treviso starting 15 and coming off the bench in 1andy wrote a weekly column for rugby times magazine and sportpostcom on life and rugby in italy and regularly contributed to absolute radios rock and roll sports podcastin july 2011 vilk joined rugby lions on a free transfer and was subsequently appointed captain he led the lions to the title in his first season which they won with two games remaining winning every match in the process in an interview with the rugby advertiser vilk said this has been a fantastic squad who have come together so well and achieved fantastic resultsvilks fine form for the lions earned him a recall to the england sevens setup as he was selected for the squad to prepare for the final two legs of the 2012 sevens world series he was subsequently selected for the team for the twickenham leg of the world sevens seriesdue to the downturn in financial fortunes at the lions vilk returned to italy in july 2012 to join calvisano he was the teams second highest try scorer during the 201213 campaign and helped them reach the playoff semifinals he continues to play for them in the 201314 seasonin may 2013 andy took up position as head coach of the italian sevens team in his first season in charge he took the team to the final of the irb sws qualifier tournament in hong kong where they lost to japan