Olivia Apps was named the PWR Player of the Season, quite an honour for a Canadian player playing in the top women’s league in England. Apps has become the top Canadian player this year leading both the national 7s and XVs team.
There’s still one round of pool play left in the PWR but the top four team participating in the playoffs have already been determined, Gloucester, Saracens, Exeter, Trailfinders. The Canadian players who are not playoff bound have been released to the national 7s team this week. #1 Gloucester suffered their first defeat this weekend, to #4 Trailfinders, a team they may meet in the semi-finals. There were 18 Canadians in action in Round 17. Paige Farries scored a hat trick of tries in the Saracens win.
The PWR are on a break until the end of May when they’ll resume Round 17. There will be two rounds of play and then the playoffs among the top four. This is a recap of the Round 16, the last round before the international break. There were 13 Canadian players with Exeter having a bye. Sophie de Goede finally got on the field after a prolonged recuperation period, she played the last quarter of the match. Julia Schell is still missing from the roster, we did some digging on that and saw this announcement from the Trailfinders in November after Round 5 “we can confirm that Julia Schell has sustained injuries to her anterior cruciate ligament in last weekend’s fixture against Saracens.” All the best to Julia on her recovery. We marked below beside each player a XVs or 7s to denote whether they were selected for the Pacific Four XVs or the Hong Kong 7s. Fourteen players were selected for Pacific Four and four players for Hong Kong 7s.
There were eleven Canadian players in action this past weekend, missing were key players Alex Tessier, Sabrina Poulin, Julia Schell, Chloe Daniels. The Saracens with seven Canadian players in the roster had a bye week. Scoring tries this week were Pam Buisa, Daleaka Menin, Fancy Bermudez. There’s one more round before the April break for international matches.
There were 16 Canadian players in action last weekend in the PWR. Asia Hogan-Rochester scored a try. Bristol with 3 Canadian players had a bye week. Sophie de Goede is still recuperating from injury, 13 weeks ago she posted on social media, “cartilage defect in my right knee requiring surgery round 3”. It’s unclear when she’ll be back. There’s two more rounds before the April break and the Pacific Four tournament preparation begins.
There were thirteen Canadians in the rosters this week with Olivia Apps and Sabrin Poulin scoring tries. There are three weeks left before the league takes a break in April for international rugby, Six Nations and Pacific Four. The top four teams make post season play and at the current time that would be Saracens, Gloucester, Exeter and Harlequins.
It was Round 12 of the PWR in England, there were 18 Canadian players in action. There are six more rounds before the semi-finals with the top four teams participating. It looks as if Saracens and Gloucester will be in that top 4 with Exeter, Harlequins and Trailfinders battling for the remaining two spots. Sophie de Goede and Olivia Apps were missing from the Saracens roster, de Goede is returning from injury while Apps may possibly be headed back for the 7s in Vancouver in just over a week’s time.
The women’s English Premiership just wrapped Round 11 last weekend and there were 16 Canadian players in action. Exeter had the largest contingent with all 5 of their players in the roster, next were Saracens and Ealing with 3 of the 7 Canadians in action. Still some big names missing like Sophie de Goede and Julia Schell. There’s still 5 weeks left before the April break for the Pacific Four tournament. Gloucester remains top of the standings with Saracens in 2nd and Exeter and Harlequins trailing. The top 4 teams go into the semi-finals in June.
The PWR restarted their season after the winter break and there were 10 Canadians in action over 5 teams. The Saracens with a large Canadian contingent had a bye this week and several players such as Fancy Bermudez, Olivia Apps, Sabrina Poulin are with the 7s team on the Singapore and Perth tournaments. Missing from the lineups were some high profile players Alex Tessier and Julia Schell. Chloe Daniels made her first appearance after signing with the Bristol Bears. The results, standings and this weekend’s matches are listed below.
Chloe Daniels is the latest Canadian 7s/XVs player to join the Premiership Women’s Rugby competition in England. She’ll be joining Holly Phillips and Pam Buisa in Bristol. Bristol are currently in 8th place in the standings, the league restarts on January 30th. Daniels was a member of the Canadian 7s Olympic team that won Silver in 2024. She went to Queen’s University to play in the 2024-25 USports season but picked up an ACL injury which put her into an extended period of recovery. She was awarded the Queen’s “Outstanding Performance of the Year” in April 2025 for exceptional performance on the international stage.