Community Rugby Updates – March 2025

Community Rugby Updates: Thunder Indigenous Rugby Celebration Recognizes Pacific Pride as Coastal Cup Winners, Phil Mack Indigenous Player of the Year Award, Thunder Youth Touring to NZ; BC Youth Groups Touring Over Spring Break

Thunder Rugby was a program started in 2013 to promote the sport of rugby to Indigenous youth, to give youth the opportunity to experience west coast Indigenous culture and to experience rugby and Indigenous culture world wide through rugby tours.

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From the Editor’s Desk – March 2025

Comox Valley U18 Girls in Scotland, Canada U20 Women’s 7s in Paraguay in August, Canada Women Start Pacific Four in Kansas City in May, Howlers U18 Boys Tour Germany in June/July, BC Club Finals in Abbotsford on May 3rd

Comox Rapids U18 Girls in Scotland

The Comox Valley U18 girls team, the Rapids, are currently touring northern England and Scotland and doing quite well. They defeated  Northern RFC, based in Newcastle, 24-22 in their first match. They then defeated Borders 59-5 in Melrose, Scotland and are finishing their tour up in Edinburgh. You can follow their tour on their Instagram account.

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High School Rugby Updates – March 2025

In Touch Newsletter Issue 3 – Public puts Private on Notice
Quw’utsun shocks Shawnigan, Claremont Rattles SMUS

Phil Smith has come up with a great resource for high school rugby on the Island and in BC. It’s a newsletter “Covering High School Rugby on Vancouver Island and British Columbia”. We’ve included a link below to download the full .pdf version which is formatted and includes photos. We’ve also copied some of the text below for a quick read.

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BC Youth Rugby Updates – March 2025

BC Rugby Announces Changes to PRC Tournament and Selection of BC U19 and U17 Coaches For This Summer

A couple of recent announcments from the BCRU this week. They’re changing the Provincial Regional Championships (PRCs) to make it a higher level competition. They’re reducing the competition to 4 regions, basically Island, Vancouver, Valley, Interior. In previous years each region would put in multiple teams from sub-regions diluting the talent from each region. In order to facilitate full participation and create a selection tool they’ve created a new tournament, the PRL (Provincial Regional League) which would include the sub-regions within the regions. It will also act as a selection tool for the PRC teams. The PRL takes place in June and the PRC in July.

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High School Rugby Updates – March 2025

In Touch Newsletter Issue 2 – Covering High School Rugby on Vancouver Island and British Columbia

Phil Smith has come up with a great resource for high school rugby on the Island and in BC. It’s a newsletter “Covering High School Rugby on Vancouver Island and British Columbia”. We’ve included a link below to download the full .pdf version which is formatted and includes photos. We’ve also copied some of the text below for a quick read. His contact information is in the .pdf and he’s looking for story ideas for the next issue.

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Rugby Scholarships and Awards

The Dave Huang Memorial Award and Other Rugby Scholarships and Awards

I was contacted by Aaron Mittler who is involved with the Dave Huang Memorial Award. His note is below, along with a link to details on the Dave Huang Memorial Award. We’ve also put a link to the Canadian Rugby Foundation scholarships and awards page, and the Friends of Rugby awards story.

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Community Rugby in Action – March 2025

Rugby Approved Turf Field on the Horizon with Partnership between School, Municipality, Rugby Club, Soccer Club and Firefighters

This is a story about building relationships in the community and looking for win-win outcomes that will benefit rugby in BC. It could be a model for other clubs to follow to build more rugby approved turf fields in the community, something that is much needed as February’s match cancellations reminded us.

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High School Rugby Updates – March 2025

In Touch Newsletter – Covering High School Rugby on Vancouver Island and British Columbia Issue 1

Phil Smith has come up with a great resource for high school rugby on the Island and in BC. It’s a newsletter “Covering High School Rugby on Vancouver Island and British Columbia”. We’ve included a link below to download the full .pdf version which is formatted and includes photos. We’ve also copied some of the text below for a quick read. His contact information is in the .pdf and he’s looking for story ideas for the next issue.

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