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RugbyTown 7s 2025

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RugbyTown 7s Kicks Off Today: Five Canadians on Rosters, Live Stream Link

The RugbyTown 7s tournament kicks off today and the live stream is here. There are at least 5 Canadians playing in the tournament. Ethan Hager is playing for the Ramblin Jesters, a team that has won the tournament in the past. Canada eligible scrum half Cameron Nordli-Kelemeti is also playing for the Jesters. The North American Lions have Luca Milne, Marshall Mather, Rob Frascione, and Jack Shaw playing for the them, and Tyler Leggatt who runs the Upright Rugby Academy is one of the coaches.

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Junior PanAm Games Rugby 7s 2025

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Canadian U20 Women Claim Bronze at Junior PanAm Rugby 7s

It wasn’t the final most would have expected, that would have been a Canada v USA matchup for Gold and Silver but Brazil were the surprise team of the tournament defeating Canada in the semi-finals and USA in the finals. Brazil won Gold and USA Silver. In the men’s tournament it was Argentina Gold, Uruguay Silver and Chile Bronze. It would have been a good learning experience for a Canadian men’s U20 team.

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2025 Canada Summer Games

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BC Win Women’s Gold, Ontario Win Men’s Gold, BC Claim Men’s Silver

The BC women’s programs have been on a tear recently, winning the national U19 XVs title and now the Canada Games U18 7s title. They defeated Ontario in the final 22-10 to win Gold, Alberta claimed Bronze. The men came up second best to Ontario for the second time this summer, losing the U19 XVs title and now the Canada Games U20 7s title. BC claimed Silver in both cases. It was a close 17-12 loss with Ontario keeping their nerve and scoring the winning try at the whistle. Quebec claimed Bronze with a 17-15 win over Alberta.

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Saratoga Cup 2025

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Vernon Jackals Win Men’s XVs, Yeti Rugby Club Claim Women’s 7s at 2025 Saratoga Cup Tournament

The home side Yeti Rugby were dominant in the women’s 7s competition, outscoring opponents 175 to 22, and claimed the 2025 women’s title. The men’s XVs competition was a lot closer with Vernon winning the final by one point over the Terrace team.

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Summer 2025 7s Tournaments

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Summer 2025 7s Tournaments: Bayside 7s on August 9th, Bula 7s August 16th, Westshore 7s August 23rd

There are 3 tournaments to wrap up the summer 7s season, starting this weekend at Bayside, then Burnaby on the 16th and then over to the Island for the Westshore 7s on the 23rd. Details on the posters below.

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World Rugby U20 Championship 2026

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World Rugby Confirm Tier 1 U20 Championship Expanded to 16 Teams: Promoted Teams Announced as USA, Fiji, Japan and Uruguay

World Rugby confirmed what they had hinted at in an earlier media release in April, that the Tier 1 JWC U20 tournament will be expanded from 12 to 16 teams. Today they released more details, the tournament will be hosted by Georgia and that the four extra teams will be Fiji, USA, Japan and Uruguay. Fiji because they were the last team relegated in 2024, and the other three as they finished 2nd to 4th at the 2024 JWRT.

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Canada U18 Updates

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Canadian U18 Team Defeat German National U18 Team 24-15 to Finish Tour With Three Wins

An excellent end of tour match for the U18 Dog River Howlers as they defeated the German National U18 team 24-15 to finish the tour with 3 wins from 3 games. The team was predominantly a BC U18 team with 23 of the 28 tour players from BC and coaches from St. George’s and Shawnigan schools. The match video can be viewed here.

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Canadian Touch Rugby Nationals 2025

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Canadian Touch Rugby Nationals Hosted in Colwood on Saturday and Sunday

The Canadian Touch Rugby Nationals will be held at the Westshore rugby club on Saturday and Sunday, June 28th and 29th. The Meralomas are defending champions. Teams will be coming from the east Montreal/Ottawa (Montowa) and Toronto, from the south (Portland, Seattle) and from BC (Victoria, Meralomas, Scribes, Samurai). Early intel says the Samurai team, organized out of Vancouver, may be one of the early favourites.

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Throwback Thursday – June 2025

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Video Replay of 2018 Men’s Canadian Club Championship at Klahanie: UBCOB Ravens vs Brantford Harlequins

It’s late Thursday and on a slow rugby news day I’m calling the #TBT option, Throwback Thursday. It all started when RugbyPass the news site owned by World Rugby ran an article on club championships around the world, you can read the article here. It was titled, “Every champion in club rugby across the world in 2024/25”, of course Canada wasn’t mentioned, it mentioned South America, USA, Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, England, Netherlands, Ireland, Wales, Germany, Romania, Georgia, Argentina, Japan, South Africa, NZ… but not Canada.

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Rugby Premier League 2025

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Rugby Premier League (RPL) Kicks Off in Mumbai, India with 7 Canadian Players Participating

The Rugby Premier League kicked off on Sunday, it’s a 2 week 7s tournament in Mumbai, India. The reason it’s of interest to Canadian rugby fans is there are 7 Canadian players competing. The competing players are Liam Poultan (Bengaluru Bravehearts); Kyle Tremblay, Ethan Turner, James Thiel (Kalinga Black Tigers); Elias Hancock, Rhys James, Briar Barron (Mumbai Dreamers). There are 6 teams in the league and 3 have Canadian players.

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