BC Women’s Island Blue vs Mainland Gold Match on Saturday at UVic: Rosters Announced
from BCRU
Squads have been confirmed for what will be an exciting Game 1 of the BC Rugby Senior Womens Blue vs. Gold Series this Saturday, May 20!
Category Archives: BC Rugby
Women’s Rugby Program Updates – May 2023
Accelerate Fund for Women’s Age Grade Programs; Women’s U20 Selection Camp June 2-6 at UBC; BC Gold v BC Blue This Weekend at UVic
This is the first year the U20 women’s teams are launching after COVID. They are on a fully pay to play model which has the potential to keep some players out of the pathway at this critical time in their development. That is where the newly started Accelerate Fund has stepped up to help. The fund currently is set up as an annuity looking to raise 2 million by 2025, all the money to go towards supporting Women’s Age Grade Rugby. All funds will be matched up to $500K. There is an upcoming national U20 selection camp at UBC, it is the first time there will be a national age grade XVs assembly for women since 2019.
BC Rugby Weekend of April 29th 2023
BC Finals Weekend: UBC Win Men’s & Women’s Premier Championship – Nanaimo, Kats, Ravens, Meraloma, Comox Win Division Titles
UBC 32 v Meraloma 25
Referee: Shanda Assmus AR1: David Smortchevsky AR2: Malcolm Klaver No.4: Alan Hudson
Venue: Bayside (South Surrey Athletic Park)
The Lomas opened the scoring a few minutes into the match when they found a ruck undefended by UBC and the big #8 Jalan Farris picked the ball up and ran straight ahead. He found #13 off his shoulder for the try, 7-0. At 11 minutes UBC #13 Takoda McMullin slotted a penalty to make the score 7-3. 15 minutes into the match UBC took its first lead. The Lomas were attacking at the UBC 22 when the #10 tried a skip pass to the outside backs that was alertly picked off by his counterpart, James Biss, who legged it in from 80 metres out, 8-7 for UBC.
BC Finals Weekend 2023
BC Finals Schedule Set for Saturday at South Surrey Athletic Park: Seven Matches, Four Live Streamed
from BCRU
Come and join us for a day of action-packed championship Rugby in South Surrey!
Were delighted to confirm the line-up for the 2023 BC Rugby Senior Club Finals taking place on Saturday, April 29 at South Surrey Athletic Park – come and join us for a day of epic Rugby!
BC Bears – April 2023
BC Bears Men’s XVs Announce Leadership Team and ID Sessions in Preparation for Coast-to-Coast Cup Competition in Halifax this June
from BC Rugby
BC Rugby is delighted to announce the return of the BC Bears Senior Mens XVs Program, with the team set to compete at the 2023 Coast-to-Coast Cup Competition in Halifax this June.
BC Rugby Playoffs – 2023
BC Rugby Playoffs Begin This Weekend in Men’s Div 1 and Women’s Premier: Last Weekend of Regular Season for Men’s Premier
[ed. note that times and locations based on BCRU fixtures page at time of writing.]
Our normal prediction article with rosters and predictions for the men’s Premier will come out tomorrow as usual but we thought we’d take a look at the playoff picture for the men’s Div 1 and women’s Premier today.
BC Rugby Women’s XVs
BC Rugby Hosts Two Match Series to Identify Top BC Talent for Rugby Canada
It’s good to see the Provincial and National bodies co-operating to ID talent for the national teams. It should be standard practice but as no surprise it’s part of the women’s national team pathway but not so much in the men’s pathway.
BC Rugby Hall of Fame – February 2023
BCRU Announces 2022 Hall of Fame Inductees: Ed Fairhurst, Bruce Kuklinski and Julia Sugawara
The BCRU announced the 2022 Inductees for the BC Rugby Hall of Fame, Ed Fairhurst, Bruce Kuklinski and Julia Sugawara. The BCRU are planning the event for June 2023, no specific date has been announced yet. They’ll be joined by the 2023 Inductees, that nomination process has been extended to March 31, 2023.
BC Bears Update – January 2023
BC Rugby Name Coaches for BC Senior and Age Grade Teams
The BCRU seem to have their act together this year with a top notch slate of coaches. Leading the senior men’s team is Curry Hitchborn. It’s a no-brainer to have him in charge of the Provincial men’s team as he leads the most successful university program in the country and his UBC team are perennial contenders for the BC Premier title. Phil Mack and Jake Ilnicki are assistant coaches.
BCRU Updates _ January 2023
BC Rugby U19 Talent ID Camps Announced for Mainland, Island, Interior
from BCRU
BC Rugby is pleased to announce three BC Bears Talent Identification and Development Sessions for U19 male athletes (birth year 2004-2005) taking place in February and March.