Look Ahead to Week 3 of the BC Premier; Pacific Pride Play Exhibition vs Seattle; UBC v UVic National University Qualifier and Women’s Premier Season Kicks Off

There are four matches in the men’s Premier this weekend, Week 3. The UBC vs UVic Premier match is also a National University Qualifier and part of the Wightman Boot competition between the two universities. The Pacific Pride are playing an exhibition against Seattle. The women’s Premier kicks off with two matches, there was supposed to be three but the Ravens v Thunderbirds match has been marked as cancelled. The Ravens apparently haven’t been able to put together a women’s Premier team at the time of writing. We’ll have our predictions article out tomorrow when we have the rosters for the weekend. The current Week 2 standings are posted below.

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Ravens Improve but Fall to Westshore: Westshore 29 – Ravens 26
by Peter MacDonald

On a cool windy day at Jericho that felt more like rugby weather the home side put in a hard shift of rugby but just fell short against a talented Westshore team.

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BC Premier Week 2 Results: UBC Drop Capilano, Burnaby Edge Bays, Westshore Win at Ravens, CW Fall at Meraloma – Coastal Cup and University Qualifier UVic Dominate at TWU

There are four BC Premier matches this weekend as teams bring back players from last season and introduce new players. The playing strength of the teams for the full season ahead is still fluid and the results this weekend will give a better idea of what lies ahead. Some national team players, XVs and 7s, start to filter in Andrew Coe, Rhys James, Kyle Tremblay, Kaden Duguid, Ethan Turner, Izzak Kelly, Talon McMullin, Jack Shaw, Noah Bain weren’t seen in Week 1. Also the Coastal Cup and University Qualifier between the Vikes and TWU kicks off with Cooper Coats getting his first start with the Vikes.

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A Look at the Matchups for Week 2 and Standings After Week 1

There are four games in the BC Premier this coming Saturday. Hosting will be Capilano, James Bay, Meraloma and Ravens. The Vikes are playing a university championship qualifier at TWU and the Pride don’t have a match scheduled as far as we know.

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Players in the Spotlight from Week 1 of BC Premier: Napolioni Bolaca, Mark Balaski, Brendan Kim, Morgan di Nardo

We had a chance to review the match footage of 3 games that were put up on YouTube, kudos to Westshore and UVic for putting up the live streams and archives of the matches, and to Burnaby for putting up the match video post game. We selected a few screen captures from the videos to highlight some outstanding performances. You can view the timestamp on the screen captures to watch on the videos which are included below. The players featured from Week 1 are Burnaby #10 Napolioni Bolaca, Westshore #10 Mark Balaski, UVic’s second row Brendan Kim and centre Morgan di Nardo. All Week 1 impact players.

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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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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

* UBC lose 4 points for defaulting Westshore match
# CW lose 4 points for defaulting Ravens match
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BC Premier Rugby 2025-26 List of Matches by Club Plus Preview Video

There’s 26 days before the BC Premier league begins on September 13th. The BCRU have the schedule up, we’ve included the link below. We’ve also listed the Premier schedule for each club and a preview video, entirely Ai created from the schedule link.

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An Early Look at the 2025-26 BC Premier Season: 17 Match Weekends, Double Club Round, Single Round vs Pride

The BC Rugby season is about 2 months away but it’s never to early to start thinking about it, right? This year’s Premier season looks like it will kick off September 13th with the same 10 teams from last year. Last year due to weather cancellations the number of games played by each team varied from 12 to 15. In 2025-26 each team is scheduled to play 17 matches. There will be a single round against the Pacific Pride and a double, home and away round, against the other 8 teams.

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BCRU Release 2024-25 Annual Report

The BCRU released their annual report with financials. The 2024-25 Annual Report in .pdf format is available for viewing online. We’ve highlighted some quotes below and a graph of their numbers. An overall evaluation, from my point of view, is that they’ve done well at the age-grade levels growing the game, the Kamloops 7s is a case in point. There’s work to do in the high performance end, especially with the senior men which has been quiet at the regional and provincial level. The reality is the financials are one of the major constraining factors which is why they brought in a new CEO to tackle that issue.

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