Canada Men Finish 13th with Win Over Chile; Canada Women Finish 6th Suffer Shock 53-0 Loss to Fiji: MATCH VIDEOS
The Canadian men finished 13th out of 24 teams, the women finished 6th out of 16 teams.
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Saratoga Cup – September 2022
Kamloops Wins Women’s Title; Rocky Mountain Rogues Win Men’s Title
from BCRU
Kamloops Rugby Club lifted the inaugural Womens Saratoga Cup title while the Rocky Mountain Rogues made it back-to-back Mens Championship wins following an action-packed weekend in Kamloops.
BC Rugby Weekend of September 10th 2022
Weekend Results: Pride Pounce on UBC; Vikes Edge TWU; Bays Upset CW; Ravens Dominate Caps; Lomas Stop Rowers; Seattle Defeat Burnaby
It’s the first week of the BC Rugby season so a lot of unknowns in rosters and team strengths. The Coastal Cup seems to be the most serious competition, the teams are fired up, rosters out early, and coaches are well organized. UBC, Pride, UVic and TWU are competing for this cup.
Women’s Rugby League World Cup 2022
Canada Ravens Name Team for Women’s Rugby League World Cup: November 1st to 19th in England
The women’s Rugby League World Cup takes place in the north of England from November 1st to November 19th. The venues are in Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, York and Hull. The dates overlap with the women’s Rugby Union World Cup taking place in New Zealand from October 8th to November 12th.
USports Women’s Rugby – September 2022
USports Rugby Season Kicks Off; UVic @ UBC This Weekend; Week 1 National Rankings
The USport women’s rugby season has kicked off and this year the fall championship tournament is in Victoria, from November 2nd to November 6th.
BC Rugby 2022-23 Season
BC Rugby Week One Preview: Regional Games for Premier Teams, League Play Starts in Divisions 1,2,3
[ed. our normal predictions article with rosters will publish every Friday.]
Week 1 of the 2022-23 rugby season is coming up this Saturday. Yes, once again, Saturday is a rugby day in BC.
Pacific Pride Updates – September 2022
A Look at the Pacific Pride Roster for the 2022-23 BC Premier Season
The Pacific Pride Academy start up another season in the BC Premier, a few of the players (Reimer, Purdey, Flesch, ??) may only be here in the fall as they’ll likely go to MLR training camps in the spring.
Canada Women’s XVs – September 2022
Rugby Canada Announce 32 Player Squad for Women’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand – First Match October 9th vs Japan
Coach Kevin Rouet has named his 32 player roster going to NZ for the World Cup. One of the most notable omissions is Pam Buisa, a player who was making headlines during the UK tour of November 2021 under coach Sandro Fiorino. She came off the disappointing Olympic 7s performance that summer but shone as an impact player in the XVs tour that fall. That earned her a starting flanker role in the June 2022 tour to NZ where she started at both blindside and openside over the three games against USA, Australia and NZ. She had a quiet tournament and in the July home tests against Italy and Wales, coach Rouet went with Fabiola Forteza, Karen Paquin, Courtney Holtkamp, Sara Svoboda, Gabrielle Senft in the flanker roles. He must have liked what he saw as all those players made the cut, Buisa is on the non-travelling reserves.
From the Editor’s Desk – August 2922
From the Editor’s Desk: LA 7s Invitational, Koroibete Tackle, NZ Woes, Vancouver Rogues
LA 7s Invitational
The LA 7s invitational wrapped up last weekend and some kudos to Canadian youth teams who stood out. The Celtic Barbarians won the Girls U18 division, MacDowell Rugby won the Boys U16 division and came 3rd in the Boys U18 and Thunder Indigenous Rugby won the Plate in the Boys U18 division.
Canada v Wales – August 2022
Canada Defeat Wales 31-3 in Warm-Up Match for World Cup in October: MATCH VIDEO
Canada grew into the game as Wales put them under pressure early and took an early 3-0 lead. Canada took over the rest of the match except for the last 10 minutes as substitutions seemed to interupt Canada’s dominance and Wales started to press again. The Canadian defence held firm and the final was 31-3.