We are looking for an individual to assist in the operation of BC Rugby News. The person will be employed by BC Grassroots Rugby and will share duties between organizations, spending at least two days coaching youth with BC Grassroots Rugby. The remaining time will be spent on BCRN activities. These may include the following tasks:
The Canada 7s boys were tuning up for the Olympics with some matches vs the Pacific Pride National Academy. We posted 31 photos on our backup site nationalrugbynews.com
Home teams won four of the five matches on the weekend. If the playoffs were this coming week it would be LA and Utah in the West and Atlanta and New York in the East. The Atlanta v LA match, won by 5 points by the home team, Atlanta, may have been a preview of the final at the end of July.
Canada’s first match in the WRWC will take place Sunday October 9th, 2022 against Asia 1 which is likely to be Japan. Their second match will be Sunday October 16th against Europe 1, likely Ireland or Scotland. The final pool match will be against rivals USA on Sunday October 23rd.
The US have named a 41 player preliminary roster that will be reduced to 30 by late June. It’s a good move and allows the MLR teams to plan early around the disruption of the July tests. Rugby Canada have stated they will release their list by mid-June and whether that’s an extended roster or closer to the travelling 30 man roster, remains to be seen.
The PHO (Provincial Health Officer) announced today a 4 step plan to restart the province. Step 1 commences May 25th and in terms of sport and exercise states: “Outdoor games and practices for both adults and youth group/team sports allowed”.
[ed. The BC Grassroots team leader and youth coach positions are available in Victoria, Esquimalt, Cowichan, Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Comox and Kelowna. The Indigenous Program Co-Ordinator position is available in Victoria, Esquimalt, Cowichan, Nanaimo.]
Each team has seven matches left in the regular season with the top two in each division going into the playoffs.
BCRN: Hi Curry, we’d like to talk about High Performance rugby in BC and what plans UBC has to fill that space.
Kieran Crowley has been named the coach of Italy after putting in his time with the Italian PRO 14 club Benetton since 2016. Crowley was the Canada coach prior to that, he ended his term with Canada shortly after the 2015 Rugby World Cup. If you need a reminder of that fiasco, where he was rehired on a 2 year term but then he declined the offer and went to Italy, here’s the article from Jan 6, 2016.