The Junior Championships were held on Sunday to close out the BC Fall Season. The Island championships were held at Cowichan, the Mainland championships were held at UBC. Posted below are the results reported by the BCRU on their Results page.
The BC club season wraps up this Sunday with the Junior championships. The mainland tournament will be held at UBC Thunderbird Stadium and the island tournament at the Cowichan Rugby Club.
It has been an interesting week around coaching and women’s rugby. Kelly Russell was highlighted by World Rugby in an article about the Maple Leaf Academy. The article is here. Does the timing have anything to do with the pending announcement of who will be the senior women’s 7s coach? We’ll see.
A team of Coastal Cup Selects, labeled as Rugby Canada West Selects, will take on the Seattle Seawolves on January 28th. The Seawolves will take on the UBCOB Ravens the weekend before. The games likely won’t be live streamed as Seattle have already stated there will be “Play-by-play tweet and score updates”, interpreted that means no live stream.
I was delighted to get a message from John Lyall and Mark (McRugby) Bryant about a request to write a portion of the Crimson Tide history, both from a players and coachs perspective.
A worrying time for the men’s program as they share bottom of the standings with Japan now, losing to Japan this tournament. Is it time to look at the coaching of the team at this point, does the team need rejuvenation, leaving things as they are looks like a formula for relegation. With the men’s XVs program relegated from the World Cup for the first time, under a foreign coach, are the men’s 7s to follow the same fate? Some decisive action is required.
The BCRU Club leagues enter Week 8, the following clubs are top of the table in their respective divisions:
I’ve always been a big believer in multi-sport athletes and how other sports can improve your rugby performance. Here are a couple of items that came across my desk.
The UBC Thunderbirds hoisted the trophy at the end of the Canadian University Men’s Rugby Championship (CUMRC) after defeating the Victoria Vikes 39-7 in the Gold Medal Game.
This is a transition year for both the men’s and women’s programs as new players are tested out on the international circuit. The danger for Canada is that if the quality is too low they could be relegated from the series the following year.