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Canada v England – RWC 2025

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Canada Win Silver at World Cup: Asia Hogan-Rochester Scores 2 Tries; Sophie de Goede World Rugby Player of the Year

Canada’s quick ruck style of play that got them to the final relies on winning the contact area and producing go forward ball, the England defence didn’t allow that and England dictated the style and pace of the match. Canada had won 100% of their scrums going into the match, England pushed the first Canada scrum backwards and sent a message that it would be power over speed on the day. Asia Hogan-Rochester scored both Canada tries and put Canada in the lead early on but England hit back minutes later on a missed tackle and a long range try. Canada would need the perfect game to end England’s winning streak and with the missed tackles and handling errors it wouldn’t be their day.

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BC Premier 2025-26 – Week 2

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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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Officiating Updates – September 2025

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So You Want to Become a World Rugby Citing Commissioner: Invitation for Candidates and Course Application

The Rugby Americas North (RAN) region is putting out an invitation for candidates who wish to apply to become a World Rugby Citing Commissioner. If you’re interested there’s two tasks to follow prior to October 6th, 2025. According to the RAN website, “candidates will be subsequently notified whether their application is successful or not.” The full RAN article is posted below, along with links to the application process. One of the course instructors is BC’s Bruce Kuklinski, a well known local referee and a World Rugby Citing Commissioner Educator. As his BC Rugby Hall of Fame profile notes, he “is one of the most successful and influential Rugby Officials that British Columbia has seen”.

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Players in the News – September 2025

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Sophie de Goede in Contention for World Rugby Women’s Player of the Year – A Look Back on Rugby Career 2015 to Present

Sophie de Goede is one of three players nominated for the World Rugby’s Women’s Player of the Year award. The Canadian Press article by Neil Davidson is posted below. We went through our BCRN articles back to 2015 when Sophie was still in high school. During that time period she not only played for her high school but was also playing regionally for the Vancouver Island Crimson Tide team, the BC age-grade teams and the Canada Development team.

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Kamloops 7s 2025

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CW Claim Top U18 Boys Title, Abbotsford Win U18 Girls and U16 Boys Title, Langley Prevail at U16 Girls Level

The Valley as usual came through strong in youth rugby, winning 3 out of 4 top titles at the U18 and U16 level. Abbotsford claimed the U18 Girls Elite and U16 Boys Competitive titles, CW claimed the U18 Boys Elite and Langley the U16 Girls Elite.

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Canada v Tonga – September 2025

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Canada Fall to Tonga 35-24 to Finish 4th in Pacific Nations Cup

A better performance by Canada who were competitive in the match and there were some standout plays by key players, Matt Oworu for the second week in a row was probably the best Canadian player, he also scored a try. Brock Gallagher scored a brilliant solo try which was initially setup by strong work at the breakdown by Talon McMullin, winning Canada a penalty which put the ball in the Tonga zone. Peter Nelson put his body on the line to scored a try and that was setup by some slick play by Spencer Jones.

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BC Rugby Weekend of September 20th 2025

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Coastal Cup and University Championship Qualifier UBC Defeat UVic; Coastal Cup Pride Down TWU; Full Match Videos

There’s no Premier this weekend as the Kamloops Youth 7s has the attention of the BCRU staff and BC referees. There are however two Coastal Cup matches, one which also counts towards qualification for the National University Championships being held in November. UVic, UBC and TWU play a home and away series with the top 2 teams representing BC at the University Championships. UBC have already won their first match against TWU and this will be UVic’s first qualifier match. The Pride are visiting TWU in the other Coastal Cup match.

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Canada v NZ – RWC 2025

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Canada Shock the Rugby World with Dominating Performance Over NZ 34-19

Canadian rugby fans knew that Canada could defeat NZ, they’ve done it before but no one thought they would dominate from the opening whistle, building up a 24-7 lead at the half, and then 31-7 early in the second half. NZ scored two second half tries at the 56′ and 65′ marks to put fans on the edge of their seat but Sophie de Goede put the worries to rest with a penalty kick at 74′ to make it a 3 score lead with 6 minutes left, 34-19.

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BC Premier Week 1 – Feature Players

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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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Coaching Summit October 2025

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Two Day Coaching Summit in Vancouver October 4th and 5th Featuring Phil Mack, Lesley McKenzie, Ben Herring

The Rugby Site is hosting a coaching summit at Capilano Rugby Club on October 4th and 5th, it will feature two international level Canadian coaches, Phil Mack and Lesley McKenzie. The website and registration link is here, the poster and some information on the summit is posted below. Well known BC coach Curry Hitchborn endorsed the coaching summit, the Rugby Site and CEO Phil Connolly , “the Rugby Site is THE best online resource for coaches, Phil ran a successful coaching development conference in Ontario a few months back. Based on feedback from some of the attendees I immediately reached out to Phil to see if he’d be keen on doing one in BC.”

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