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BC Rugby Weekend of September 13th 2025

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BC Premier Week 1 Results: UBC Draw With Burnaby, Bays Ground Ravens, Pride Fall to Vikes, Westshore Defeat CW, Caps Top Lomas

A number of upsets in Week 1 as teams have recruited in the off season and the playing strengths for the new season become apparent. The biggest upset reported by the BCRU was the Bays over UBCOB Ravens. The Bays finished in the cellar last season and the Ravens won the Rounsefell Cup. In another match UVic were down 19 points at the half and upset the Rugby Canada Academy in a close battle. We have the full match video on both the UVic v Pride match and the Westshore v CW match, courtesy of the host clubs YouTube channels.

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Canada v Australia – RWC 2025

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Canada Dominate Australia in World Cup Quarter-Final: Face New Zealand in Semi-Finals

It was Canada’s best performance to date at the World Cup as they scored three tries through the backs in the first 20 minutes and then the forwards took over and finished off the match with three tries, Sophie de Goede also added a try at the 18′ mark and four conversions.

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BC Premier 2025/26

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Men’s Premier Schedule by Club and Social Media Links

This article contains social media links and schedules for BC Premier clubs, as well as the updated standings.

Standings – April 11th 2026

Team Played Wins Draws Losses BP Points Ratio
Ravens 16 13 0 3 16 68 4.25
UBC* 17 12 1 4 18 64 3.76
Westshore 17 13 0 4 12 64 3.76
James Bay 17 10 0 7 14 54 3.18
Capilano 17 9 0 8 15 51 3.0
UVic 16 8 0 8 15 47 2.93
Burnaby Lake 17 8 1 8 13 47 2.76
Meraloma 17 3 1 13 8 22 1.29
Pacific Pride 9 1 1 7 4 10 1.11
CW# 17 1 0 16 7 7 0.41

* UBC lose 4 points for defaulting Westshore match
# CW lose 4 points for defaulting Ravens match
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Pacific Pride Update – September 2025

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A Visit to the Pacific Pride, aka Rugby Canada Academy, Training on Monday Evening

I drove out to Starlight Stadium on Monday evening, the Pride practice 7-9am on some days and 5-7pm on other days, the schedule helps players who are also looking to hold down an 9ish to 5ish sort of job. The Rugby Canada academy helps a bit financially but players still need some sort of income.

Attending the practice were some heavy hitters in terms of the future of men's rugby, John Tait, the Technical Director of the BCRU, was in attendance. On the field running the practice was Pride head coach, Christiaan Esterhuizen, and skills coaches Hubert Buydens and Nik Witkowski.

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Canada Men’s XVs – September 2025

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Canada Men Qualify for 2027 World Cup in Australia

It’s official from World Rugby, Canada has qualified for the 2027 Rugby World Cup. One extraordinary game, the win against USA, with the return of Tyler Ardron who scored 4 tries, and Evan Olmstead who was massive in the tight five. Canada have already exceeded their accomplishments from the 2023 World Cup cycle where they failed to qualify.

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BC Rugby Weekend of September 6th 2025

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Coastal Cup and Men’s University UBC Crush TWU; and in Women’s University UVic Pummel Calgary

Two blowouts this weekend with UBC crushing TWU 76-0 to start their Coastal Cup and men’s University Championship qualification on a strong note and the UVic women continue their unbeaten run in the women’s University Championship qualification with a 74-10 pummeling of the University of Calgary Dinos. The UBC game video is archived below, we’ll post photos of the UVic match later today. There’s also match reports posted below courtesy of Thunderbirds and Vikes media.

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Canada v Scotland – RWC 2025

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Canada Win Final Pool Match 40-19 Over Scotland: Face Australia in Quarter-Finals

Canada were ahead 19-5 at the half but it wasn’t a comfortable lead as Scotland had much of the play in the first 30 minutes and it was a yellow card picked up by the TMO at the 30′ that turned the match around. The referee had penalized Canada heavily early in the match, often getting the scrum infractions wrong, penalizing Canada even though they had the stronger scrum. She also missed the important yellow card infraction where a Scottish hand knocked the ball on from an offside position near the goal line, the TMO picked it up. What ensued was a penalty try from the scrum and a try by Emily Tuttosi that took a close 7-5 match to 19-5 at the half.

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BC Rugby Youth Club Season

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BC Rugby Youth Club Season Starts September 7th at U18, U16 and U14 Levels for 7s and September 28th for XVs

The club rugby season for youth is in the fall, in the spring it’s school based. Depending on the club, there will be teams at the U18, U16, U14 level for boys and girls. The BCRU find a club page is here. The season kicks off September 7th with 3 weeks of 7s and then the XVs season starts September 28th with 6 weeks of rugby before the playoffs start on November 23rd. The finals will be held on the mainland this year at the Langley Event Centre on December 7th.

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Pacific Pride 2025-26

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Pacific Pride Roster for the Fall 2025 Premier Season

This is the Pacific Pride playing roster for the fall of the 2025-26 season. There are 29 players listed including five U20 players. Some of the players may move on to MLR in the spring season and new players may come in for the spring part of the season. We’ve also listed the Pride schedule as of August 2025. The first match will be September 13th at UVic.

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World Rugby SVNS Series 2025-26

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World Rugby Announces SVNS Series Schedule and Structure for 2025-26 Season: Vancouver a 2 Day Event on March 7-8

World Rugby has announced the upcoming SVNS series for 2025-26 and there are some significant changes. There will be 6 Series events and 3 World Championship events. The Series events will all be 2 days, including Vancouver, and will start with Dubai (29-30 November, 2025), Cape Town (6-7 December, 2025), Singapore (31 January-1 February, 2026), Australia (7-8 February, 2026), Vancouver (7-8 March, 2026), USA (14-15 March, 2026). The World Championship events start in April and are 3 day events, Hong Kong (17-19 April, 2026), Valladolid (29-31 May, 2026), Bordeaux (5-7 June, 2026).

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