Kamloops Match Reports by William Shaw: Women Defeat Meraloma at Connaught, Men Lose in Richmond
Another double KRC away game, and another 5:45 am leave for both Senior squads.
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Dubai 7s – November 2025
Head Coach Barrieau Selects 14 Players for Canada Trip to Dubai 7s: Kick Off November 29th
Canada have selected 14 to make the trip to Dubai, and then South Africa, the 13 selected for the tournament will be announced later. Carissa Norsten has been selected as captain, an honour for a 22 year old to be given that responsibility but a testament to her work ethic and leadership. Canada will face Great Britain, Australia and Japan in the pool round. Since there are only 8 teams now in the tournament, 4 teams in 2 pools, only the top 2 in each pool advance to the Cup round. It make the first match against GB particularly important.
Rugby Americas North (RAN) 7s – 2025
Canada Win RAN 7s with 41-0 Win in Semi-Final and 31-0 Win in Final
Canada won the Rugby Americas North 7s tournament scoring 225 points in total and conceding 14. They finished Day 3 with a semi-final win over T&T 40-0 and a final over Barbados 31-0. They’ll now await details on the next tournament which will see regional tournament winners vie for two spots to go to the next level. The SVNS 3 tournament is supposed to be in January and includes 8 teams, the top 2 will advance to SVNS 2 tournaments in February and March.
BC Rugby Weekend of November 22nd 2025
BC Premier Week 8 Results: Ravens Grounded by Burnaby, Lomas Doubled by CW, Westshore Edge Vikes; Exhibition Pride Outscored by Chicago Hounds Development; Women’s Premier Burnaby Defeated by CW, Lomas Dominate Seattle, Thunderbirds Soar Past Abby
It was Week 8 of the BC Premier season with 3 matches on tap, plus an exhibition with the Chicago Hounds development team in town to take on the Pride. The women’s Premier also had 3 matches this weekend. A couple of upsets in men’s Premier with Burnaby taking down defending champs Ravens and CW getting their first win over the visiting Meraloma.
Canada v Portugal – November 2025
Canada Fall to Portugal 33-27 to Close Out November Tour
It was as close to a win that Canada got this November, 16-16 at the half, and their scrum wasn’t battered as in the first two matches. It was Canada’s there for the taking, down 6 points, the man advantage, the ball 15 metres out from the goal line in front of the posts, four minutes left. Then one attempt at a clever, no look, pass that’s intercepted and suddenly they’re defending inside their 22 with time expiring. That play seemed to epitomise the Canada’s men’s XVs mindset right now. Instead of playing high percentage, patient rugby in this situation, it’s a 50-50 go for glory option that’s chosen. Is it a lack of confidence, a lack of leadership, a lack of communication? The game goes into the “could have won but didn’t” category, an improvement over the “never in the game” category.
Reflections on Men’s University Championship 2025
The Guelph Formula for Success: Player Talent and Coach of the Tournament Cory Hector
Guelph won the men’s university title this year, the first for an Ontario university. We thought we’d take a look at the team and the formula for success and give a shout out to the coach, Cory Hector, who was selected the Coach of the Tournament by tournament organizers.
UBCOB Ravens – November 2025
Ravens Defend Home Turf: Ravens 36 – Pride 9
Report by Peter MacDonald
A soggy November morning gave way to a dry afternoon and some good rugby for the players and stalwart fans at Jericho. The Ravens dominated possession for the first 25 minutes tallying two tries the first through Noah Bain beating his man outside and sending a grubber across the line to be touched down by Mark Wandeto and the second a Joe Locke line break and pass to Jake Tierney who also grubbered and then jackalled to regain possession for Cole Keffer who jinked about and dove in for a 14-3 Ravens lead.
World Rugby Nations Cup – November 2025 Update
World Rugby Releases Some Details of Tier 2 Nations Cup – Crossover Matches with Tier 1 Nations Championship in 2027
Canada will be part of the 2026 Nations Cup starting in July 2026. The Nations Cup is the Tier 2 equivalent of the Tier 1 Nations Championship. This new structure sets the test matches for the July and November windows except in World Cup or Lions Tour years. In those years there will be some crossover between the Tier 1 and Tier 2 brackets. The Tier 1 Nations Championship will include the Six Nations countries, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Wales; plus SANZAAR countries Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa; plus Japan and Fiji. The Tier 2 Nations Cup will include Canada, Chile, Georgia, Hong Kong China, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Tonga, Uruguay, USA, Zimbabwe, Samoa.
Kamloops Rugby Updates – November 2025
Kamloops Match Reports: Women Defeat United in Coquitlam by William Shaw
Kamloops Rugby Club Senior squads were in action this weekend. Players loaded the bus at Exhibition Park, leaving at 5:45am to make their way down to the lower mainland. The ladies were dropped off in Coquitlam for their Fixture versus United while the men carried on for their game at the Meralomas.