The women’s Canada U20 team travels to Ireland in May for two matches against Ireland. The team features 8 players from the Thunderbirds team that currently sits in 1st place in the women’s BC Premier competition, Skye Farish, Lana Dueck, Brooke Roddham, Adia Pye, Mya Koleba, Kiki Idowu, Anya Prokopich, Alexis Dobson.
There’s not a lot of published data on the number of women’s caps so we reached out to Liz Montroy, the Rugby Canada Communications Manager, and she sent this data. It will be updated with more information, such as match/date of first cap at a later date, but this is a good start.
World Rugby announced the pools for the women’s Rugby World Cup in 2025. Canada, ranked #2, will face Scotland, Wales and Fiji in the pool round. The top two teams in each pool advance to the quarter-finals.
Canada didn’t win but it was a good effort by Canada that was just hampered by key handling errors at critical times. It was a 2 point match until the final whistle when England scored their final try.
The World Cup 2025 draw will take place October 17th with the schedule to be released on October 22nd. Canada as the #2 team will be in Band #1 so will avoid other Band #1 teams in the pool round, the Band #1 teams will be #1 England, #2 Canada, #3 NZ, #4 France.
It wasn’t a perfect game for Canada but a strong defensive effort limited Ireland to one second half try while Canada did all their scoring in the first half.
Canada opened their WXV 1 campaign with a 46-24 win over France, the win will see Canada rise to #2 in the World rankings behind England. The match was close for the first 30 minutes with the teams tied at 14-14 until player of the match, second row, Laetitia Royer scored the first of her two tries to put Canada ahead, 19-14. A lead they wouldn’t relinquish.
Canada can rise to #2 in the World Rugby rankings overtaking NZ on Sunday with a win over France. The result of the NZ vs Ireland match won’t improve NZ’s World Rugby ranking due to the large ranking difference between NZ and Ireland.
Canada have reduced their 35 player training camp list by cutting 6 players and adding one that wasn’t on the original training camp list.
Canada completed the sweep at the Trans-Atlantic Quad Series with a comprehensive win against host Wales today. They previously defeated USA and England to top the competition.