The UBC Thunderbirds finished the final Women’s Rugby 7’s tournament of the year with a 5-0 record to go unbeaten over the 2025 season and win their third straight Canada West championship Saturday afternoon at Willoughby Stadium at the Langley Events Centre in Langley, B.C.
Thanks to Peter Muirhead who put together these league tables for the weekend of March 15th 2025. Tables ordered by points per game. Note these are the unofficial standings, the official competition page is maintained by the BCRU.
There were 25 Canadian players in action in Round 5 of the MLR, 8 starting and 17 in the reserves. It was the first appearance for Kaden Duguid and Gabe Casey in the match 23.
Phil Smith has come up with a great resource for high school rugby on the Island and in BC. It’s a newsletter “Covering High School Rugby on Vancouver Island and British Columbia”. We’ve included a link below to download the full .pdf version which is formatted and includes photos. We’ve also copied some of the text below for a quick read.
Only 3 more weekends of regular season play after this weekend, time is running out for teams trying to capture the last playoff spot while near the top of the standings UBC and Lomas battle for the #2 playoff ranking and a quarter-final bye.
The women’s Canada U20 team travels to Ireland in May for two matches against Ireland. The team features 8 players from the Thunderbirds team that currently sits in 1st place in the women’s BC Premier competition, Skye Farish, Lana Dueck, Brooke Roddham, Adia Pye, Mya Koleba, Kiki Idowu, Anya Prokopich, Alexis Dobson.
A couple of recent announcments from the BCRU this week. They’re changing the Provincial Regional Championships (PRCs) to make it a higher level competition. They’re reducing the competition to 4 regions, basically Island, Vancouver, Valley, Interior. In previous years each region would put in multiple teams from sub-regions diluting the talent from each region. In order to facilitate full participation and create a selection tool they’ve created a new tournament, the PRL (Provincial Regional League) which would include the sub-regions within the regions. It will also act as a selection tool for the PRC teams. The PRL takes place in June and the PRC in July.
On a cold, wet, windy day at Connaught the two west side clubs gathered at midfield for a moment’s silence to honour long time Meraloma member Chas Teeple who recently passed away. Chas was a skilled flyhalf, a class guy and a lover of rugby and of the camaraderie that surrounds it. I recall watching him play in the late 1960s when he led the St Georges backline and later when he manned the #10 jersey with the Lomas. Looking around the sidelines at the game on Saturday there were Bobby Brown and referee assessor on the day Al Hudson who were Chas’s teammates and friends back in the day. Raven Rick Bourne was a high school rival and later a friend. There’s a long BC rugby through line from those days to today.
Phil Smith has come up with a great resource for high school rugby on the Island and in BC. It’s a newsletter “Covering High School Rugby on Vancouver Island and British Columbia”. We’ve included a link below to download the full .pdf version which is formatted and includes photos. We’ve also copied some of the text below for a quick read. His contact information is in the .pdf and he’s looking for story ideas for the next issue.
Thanks to Peter Muirhead who put together these league tables for the weekend of March 8th 2025. He’s included a playoff “snapshot” which will be updated each week as the standings change.