from Shawnigan Lake
Shawnigan Lake School will have the honour of representing all of North America at a prestigious rugby sevens tournament in England later this month celebrating the 200th anniversary of the sport.
by Tyler Leggatt
Amidst partially sunny skies and cooler climes in the northeast part of London, England, Upright Rugby took to the field against Wansted RFC. This was first match in Uprights first ever 15s rugby tour, a team which is comprised of a mix of players primarily based in Oakville, Ontario, where many of them train with the Upright Rugby Academy nearly year-round.
The Thunder Indigenous Rugby program is touring to NZ in August, taking a U18 boys and a U18 girls team. Last year in August they had a successful tour to California, entering the LA 7s Invitational, the tour review is on their website.
[ed. update Japan SDS (Sevens Development Squad) won the girls title defeating the NZ and Australian U18 teams, a big upset. On the boys side it was the expected result, NZ U18 team winning.]
The four Provincial championships were originally to be held Dec 4th at Cowichan but freezing weather and snow north of the Malahat changed plans. The U16 titles were able to go ahead in Oak Bay and were won by Langley (girls) and Bayside (boys). The BCRU write up on the day is posted below.
from BCRU
BOYS TEAM
BC Rugby is delighted to announce the U18 BC Bears Elite Boys 7s squad heading to the 2022 World School Sevens in New Zealand this December.
[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.