Vancouver Sevens Invitational (VSI) 2025
Canada Men’s 7s – February 2025
Canada Names 16 Players for Round Robin Series Against Japan and Trinidad & Tobago at Vancouver 7s
Canada have named 16 players for their exhibition series against Japan and Trinidad & Tobago. The Vancouver tournament will be part of the preparation for the three tournaments coming up in March/April that are part of the Challenger Series to get back on the main World Rugby 7s series.
Canada U20 Updates – February 2025
Canada U20 Holds Camp at St. George’s This Week: 54 Players Named to Long List
The men’s U20 team are holding a training camp this week Thursday to Sunday at St. George’s school. There is no JWRT this year so the Canadian and USA teams are touring, the USA announced a tour to South Africa and Canada announced they’re touring to Fiji in today’s media release.
MLR 2025 – Round One
MLR Round One Results: Wins for New England, Chicago, New Orleans, Old Glory, San Diego: Jesse Mackail Scores Two Tries as Impact Player
There were 21 Canadian players in action (out of 46) in MLR Round One, 11 starting, 10 in reserves and 25 not in action. Looking through the match stats for impact players, Mason Flesch has the high tackle count (12) for Chicago in their win over Houston. Andrew Coe was 3rd in metres made in the LA match with 62, Piers von Dadelszen was 4th in tackles made with 19 for New England. Cooper Coats was 4th in defenders beaten (2) in his match with New Orleans. Jesse Mackail made a big impact coming in as reserve hooker for Seattle and scoring 2 tries.
Vancouver 7s 2025
Canadian Team Named for Vancouver 7s: Return of Scurfield, Bermudez, Corrigan from English Premier XVs
With the return of some of high profile players from overseas there’s only 8 players remaining from the Perth 7s tournament. Krissy Scurfield, Fancy Bermudez, Alysha Corrigan are all returning from professional XVs seasons in England. Pam Buisa and Charity Williams are returning to the squad as well. Unlucky not to make the squad based on her performances in Perth and Cape Town was Carmen Izyk.
BC Rugby Weekend of February 15th 2025
BC Premier Make-Up Weekend: Men’s Premier Pacific Pride Dominate 2nd Half for Win Over James Bay; Women’s Premier Westshore Blank CW
It’s a make up weekend, family day weekend, but most of the games have been cancelled again due to field closures. The Ravens v Burnaby game at Jericho was a late cancellation. There’s only the one men’s Premier game, Pride v Bays, again Starlight Stadium to the rescue. The women’s Premier game Westshore v CW was moved from Westshore to CW and from Friday evening to Saturday afternoon.
Stephen Aboud Returns to Italy
Stephen Aboud Returns to Italy as High Performance Manager: Rugby Canada States Reason as “Closer to Family”
File this under more Rugby Canada mismanagement and poor decisions. After two years of wasting time in Canada and no doubt enjoying the beauty of Vancouver Island, the holiday has ended and Stephen Aboud has returned to Italy to take up the High Performance role there. Rugby Canada and former board members continue with the charade of well wishes, not wanting to own up to the fact their poor decisions have put Canada two years behind in implementing an effective high performance strategy.
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