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BC Youth Rugby Updates – March 2025

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BC Rugby Announces Changes to PRC Tournament and Selection of BC U19 and U17 Coaches For This Summer

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.

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UBCOB Ravens – March 2025

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Ravens Edge Lomas in the Rain Ravens 27 – Lomas 19: Report by Peter MacDonald

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.

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High School Rugby Updates – March 2025

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In Touch Newsletter Issue 2 – Covering High School Rugby on Vancouver Island and British Columbia

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.

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MLR 2025 – Round 4

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MLR Round 4 with 24 Canadians in Action: San Diego Only Undefeated Team Tops West Conference and Chicago Tops East Conference

There were 24 Canadians in action this weekend in MLR, 13 starting and 11 in the reserves. San Diego remains the only undefeated team and tops the West Conference, Chicago tops the East Conference.

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BC Rugby Weekend of March 8th 2025

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BC Premier Week 12 Results: CW Rock Bays, Ravens Defeat Lomas, UBC Soar Past Westshore, Burnaby Fall to Caps, Pride Dominate Vikes

A full schedule this weekend in the BC Premier with all 10 teams in action. There’s only 4 weekends of matches in the regular season after this weekend, the playoff picture will start to get clearer after this round of matches.

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Rugby Scholarships and Awards

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The Dave Huang Memorial Award and Other Rugby Scholarships and Awards

I was contacted by Aaron Mittler who is involved with the Dave Huang Memorial Award. His note is below, along with a link to details on the Dave Huang Memorial Award. We’ve also put a link to the Canadian Rugby Foundation scholarships and awards page, and the Friends of Rugby awards story.

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Community Rugby in Action – March 2025

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Rugby Approved Turf Field on the Horizon with Partnership between School, Municipality, Rugby Club, Soccer Club and Firefighters

This is a story about building relationships in the community and looking for win-win outcomes that will benefit rugby in BC. It could be a model for other clubs to follow to build more rugby approved turf fields in the community, something that is much needed as February’s match cancellations reminded us.

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MLR 2025 – Round 3

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San Diego and Utah Only Undefeated Teams – 23 Canadians in Rosters, 10 Starting, 13 Reserves – Canadian Referees Listed

MLR Round 3 saw 23 Canadian players in the rosters, 10 starting and 13 in the reserves. Lucas Rumball made the MLR Team of the Week. San Diego is the only team at 3-0 and Utah are the only other undefeated team at 2-0. Canadian referees have an important role in MLR as well, below is a list of Canadian referees participating in the MLR this season.

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