Category Archives: National Women’s XVs

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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Canada v USA – August 2025

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Canada Defeat USA 42-10 on Strong 2nd Half Performance: Full Match Video

After the first 10 minutes with USA leading 7-0 there may have been some thoughts that Canada had pushed the World Cup build up a little too much with the tour to South Africa. They looked flat and fatigued. USA were winning the contact battle, they were breaking the gainline on their carries, it wasn’t looking promising. Even at the half with Canada scoring a late try, there were questions. Those questions were answered in the 2nd half as Canada scored 28 points and kept USA off the score sheet.

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Canada vs South Africa Match #2 – July 2025

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Canada Defeat South Africa 33-5 in 2nd Test

It wasn’t perfect but Canada’s defence limited South Africa to one second half try which is a victory in itself, after conceding 20 points last match. There are definitely some work-ons, two 1st half yellow cards had Canada playing with 13 players at one point. A couple of 1st half penalty advantages didn’t see the kicks go into touch, a few too many line breaks allowed but the cover defence was strong. Also two players lost, the injury to Rori Wood looking serious and Laetitia Royer holding her shoulder going off.

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Canada vs South Africa – July 2025

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Canada Defeat South Africa 50-20 in Match #1

Canada won their first match in South Africa taking a 26-3 half time lead and finishing off with two late tries to win 50-20. The Canada backline looked dangerous during periods of the match finding space out wide but the Canadian forwards weren’t as dominant in this match compared to recent performances. The scrum was under pressure for most of the match. Canada were in control from the opening whistle but won’t be happy with the 3 second half tries they conceded considering they were playing a team ranked 10 places below them.

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