Category Archives: National Women’s XVs

Rugby World Cup 2025 – Canada Review

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Summary of RWC Post Match Interview with Kevin Rouet and Alex Tessier

The World Cup is over, Canadian rugby had its brief moment in the sun but now what? How to build on that momentum? That’s the question, there is no simple answer presented in this article but we’ll start with the post-match interview with coach Kevin Rouet and Alex Tessier. Below you will find the video, the summary of the interview, the transcript and a google trend graph that shows the spike that “women’s rugby” enjoyed over the past week.

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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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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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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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Canada v Australia – RWC 2025

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Canada Dominate Australia in World Cup Quarter-Final: Face New Zealand in Semi-Finals

It was Canada’s best performance to date at the World Cup as they scored three tries through the backs in the first 20 minutes and then the forwards took over and finished off the match with three tries, Sophie de Goede also added a try at the 18′ mark and four conversions.

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Emily Tuttosi

Canada v Scotland – RWC 2025

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Canada Win Final Pool Match 40-19 Over Scotland: Face Australia in Quarter-Finals

Canada were ahead 19-5 at the half but it wasn’t a comfortable lead as Scotland had much of the play in the first 30 minutes and it was a yellow card picked up by the TMO at the 30′ that turned the match around. The referee had penalized Canada heavily early in the match, often getting the scrum infractions wrong, penalizing Canada even though they had the stronger scrum. She also missed the important yellow card infraction where a Scottish hand knocked the ball on from an offside position near the goal line, the TMO picked it up. What ensued was a penalty try from the scrum and a try by Emily Tuttosi that took a close 7-5 match to 19-5 at the half.

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Canada v Wales – RWC 2025

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Canada Shut Out Wales 42-0 in 2nd Pool Match: Next up Scotland on September 6th

Canada started slowly and finished with their foot off the pedal but had a strong 40 minutes between the first try at 16′ and their last try at 55′. It wasn’t a complete game for Canada with a lot of handling errors and they’ll need to focus on the details a little more as they have Scotland on the horizon and then likely a quarter-final match against Australia. Sophie de Goede was player of the match. Coach Rouet summed it up, “We know we have a job to do to refine our game, I am excited for next week because we want to play a good game of rugby.”

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Canada v Fiji – RWC 2025

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Canada Defeat Fiji 65-7: Julia Schell Scores Six Tries

Julia Schell scored 6 tries over 22 minutes in the second half for a record breaking performance by the fullback. She led in points 30, metres made 116, successful offloads 4, line breaks 9. The forwards had put in the hard yards in the first 40 and the game was won by halftime, 24-0, with the first 3 tries by forwards de Goede, Boag and Crossley. Courtney O’Donnell, second row, was top tackler with 14. Canada had 65% of the territory and played the game in the right part of the park.

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Canada Women’s XVs – August Updates

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Julia Omokhuale Replaces Pam Buisa in World Cup Squad

Rugby Canada announced a change in the squad at the women’s Rugby World Cup, their post on social media stated “After suffering an injury in Canada’s match against Ireland, Pamphinette Buisa has been ruled out of the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025. Wishing you a speedy recovery Pamphinette! Julia Omokhuale has been called into the squad as a replacement.” They kick off their tournament on August 23rd against Fiji.

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Canada v Ireland – August 2025

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Canada Defeat Ireland 47-26 With a Dominant Five Try First Half: Full Match Video

It was a game of two halves, as Canada had basically won the match by halftime with a 33-7 lead. Canada went through a “blue” patch from about the 60 minute mark up to the final 5 minutes where Ireland scored 3 tries and were playing the better rugby. Canada lost captain Alex Tessier in the first half to an HIA and she didn’t return, her leadership may have been missed during that lull in the second half when the subs had been made. Florence Symonds looked good in the first half with 2 key tries, the player of the match over the full 80 was loose forward Fabiola Forteza.

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