[ed. update the sessions and selections are open to boys born 2004 to 2006.]
from BCRU [with updates]
Calling all BC U17 & U18 (born 2004 to 2006) Boys who want to claim their spot on the Elite Youth 7s Team headed for New Zealand!
The BCRU results system doesn’t explicitly name a winner or show, in many cases, which is the finals match, so a bit of interpretive reading of the results is required. If in doubt check the results directly using the links below.
from BCRU
BC Bears Boys and Girls Elite 7s teams will be heading to New Zealand this December, to compete at the 2022 World School Sevens.
It’s good to see a combined Island/Mainland BC club championship at the youth level return this year. As the BCRU media release mentioned, it was 3 years ago when the last one was held. Last year the Mainland and Island held separate championships as COVID rules were just starting to loosen.
BC dominated at the Canada Summer Games Rugby 7s winning the Gold medal final 38-0 over Quebec. In the Bronze match Ontario defeated Nova Scotia 20-15.
from BC Rugby
The 2022 Western Canada Championships made a successful return to the calendar after three thrilling days of Age-Grade Rugby wrapped up at Parkinson Recreation Park in Kelowna, BC.
King Edward VI school is touring BC and one of their matches will be against the Vancouver Island Tide, U16 and U18 teams. A quick google search shows there are several King Edward Schools (KES) in the UK – in Birmingham, Southampton and Stratford. The Southampton and Stratford schools have visited the Island before. It’s the Stratford school which is visiting this year. King Edward School in Stratford-upon-Avon is where William Shakespeare went to school in the 1570’s. Likely a half back of some sort if rugby were available at the time, always verbose and questioning on field decisions, “To be or not to be? Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune?” – definitely not a forward.
There’s a youth rugby camp this Friday at the EMCS high school field in Sooke, 9am to noon. The camp is run by BC Grassroots Rugby and one of their high profile coaches, Djustice Sears-Duru, will be there. Also some members of the women’s XVs program will be in attendance as they prepare to face Italy on Sunday in Langford.
U14 Boys
Fraser Valley East defeated Okanagan in the final. Vancouver South claimed 3rd.
In honour of National Indigenous Peoples Day we take a look at the Thunder Rugby program which was formed to introduce rugby to Indigenous youth. The program is led by some notable First Nations players and administrators, John Lyall, Phil Mack and Bobby Ross.