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Head coach Sandro Fiorino has announced his roster for Rugby Canadas National Senior Womens 15s Fall Tour, beginning in November. Canada faces the USA, Wales and World No.1 England as they continue preparations for the rescheduled Rugby World Cup in October 2022.
World Rugby officially announced the November tour schedule. For Canada men that means a trip to Portugal and Belgium, for the women they have two tests against the USA before taking off to England and Wales.
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World Rugby has announced details of a new cross-regional annual international competition titled, Pacific Four Series, that will bring together some of the worlds top womens teams.
The Red v Black inter-squad match takes place today at 7pm local time, 3pm PT. The two squads of 24 are listed below.
from Rugby Canada
Rugby Canada is excited to announce four key fixtures beginning in November that will see Canadas National Senior Womens 15s face the USA, Wales and world No. 1 England as they continue preparations for the rescheduled Rugby World Cup in October 2022.
We dropped by the West camp on Sunday to watch the players go through their paces and have a light scrimmage.
We posted 35 photos on our other site at: http://nationalrugbynews.com/index.php/womens-xvs-western-camp-july-11-2021/.
Canada’s first match in the WRWC will take place Sunday October 9th, 2022 against Asia 1 which is likely to be Japan. Their second match will be Sunday October 16th against Europe 1, likely Ireland or Scotland. The final pool match will be against rivals USA on Sunday October 23rd.
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World Rugby has confirmed that the womens edition of the Rugby World Cup will expand to 16 teams from 2025 onwards.
The pool draw for RWC 2021 was made yesterday and Canada have found themselves in Pool B with North American rivals USA. In RWC 2017 the USA made it through to the final group of four based on bonus points. Canada finished 5th. Both teams had a 2-1 record and both came second in their pool to the eventual finalists, New Zealand and England. That year the format was the top 3 in each pool plus the best 2nd place would go to the final 4.
Cindy Nelles first showed up on our radar in 2012 when she started at #4 in the national women’s XVs East v West match in Langford. She played for the West and her lock partner that day was Maria Jaworski, the loose forwards on the West team were Kayla Mack, Barbara Mervin and Jen Kish, quite a bit of talent there. The East however had some talent in the backline including Ghislaine Landry, Magali Harvey, Bianca Farella, Britt Benn and Mandy Marchak. The East would prevail on that August day.