Jocelyn Barrieau Announced as Successor to Jack Hanratty as Women’s 7s Head Coach Post Olympics
Former Concordia Stingers coach, Jocelyn Barrieau, has been announced as the successor to Jack Hanratty when the Olympics are completed. Barrieau has been with the women’s 7s team as Assistant Coach since May 2023, Hanratty is moving on to a coaching position at the University of Ottawa.
Jocelyn Barrieau was appointed head coach of the Concordia women’s rugby team in 2018. She played 5 years of university rugby, four years with McGill before moving to Concordia in 2011. While playing at university she coached the Dawson College women’s rugby team in Westmount beginning in 2007. Outside of her university coaching job she was a high school teacher in Laval, teaching French. Notable players coming through the Concordia women’s program include Alex Tessier and Frédérique Rajotte.
There’s a good article on her Concordia years on the Concordia website.
Assistant coach Jocelyn Barrieau will take charge of Canada’s women’s rugby sevens team following the Paris 2024 Olympics, Rugby Canada announced Monday.
The governing body had previously announced that Jack Hanratty would step down after this summer’s Olympics to take over the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees women’s team.
Barrieau joined the sevens squad as an assistant coach in May 2023 from Concordia University’s women’s rugby team.
Rugby Canada said Barrieau was chosen by its high-performance staff and Own the Podium prior to the Olympics to “ensure stability and facilitate strategy planning for the women’s sevens program following Paris 2024.”
The Canadian women currently stand fifth in the HSBC SVNS season standings after six events.
They have been drawn in a pool with No. 1 New Zealand, the fourth-ranked U.S. and No. 8 Britain in the season’s grand final that starts Friday at Civitas Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid.
While the women take part in a “winner-takes-all” eight-team competition in Madrid to decide the series champion, the Canadian men will be fighting to remain in the world sevens series.
Canada, currently at the bottom of the 12-team men’s standings, will join the ninth-place U.S., No. 10 Spain and No. 11 Samoa and the winning teams from the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger Series — Chile, Germany, Kenya and Uruguay — in a relegation playoff to decide four core teams in 2025.
The Canadian men will face Germany, Uruguay and the U.S. in Pool A in Madrid.
The Canadian women qualified for the Paris Olympics by blanking Mexico 53-0 last August in the final of the 2023 Rugby Americas North Sevens.
The Canadian men are headed to a last-ditch Olympic qualifier June 21-23 in Monaco.
from Rugby Canada
Rugby Canada is pleased to announce that Jocelyn Barrieau has been confirmed as the incoming Head Coach of Canada’s Women’s Sevens Team following the Paris 2024 Olympics.
This appointment follows the announcement in March that Jack Hanratty would depart Rugby Canada following Paris 2024, beginning a new role in 2025 as Head Coach of the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees women’s rugby team.
Barrieau was announced as Assistant Coach of Canada’s Women’s Sevens Team in May 2023, joining Rugby Canada from Montreal, Quebec’s Concordia University’s women’s rugby team with extensive experience working with age grade and senior level players at the national, provincial and university levels.
Selection of the incoming Head Coach was conducted by Rugby Canada high performance staff and Own the Podium prior to the Olympics to ensure stability and facilitate strategy planning for the women’s sevens program following Paris 2024.
With the focus of all coaches and players remaining on the HSBC SVNS Grand Final in Madrid and the Olympics, a full announcement will be released upon the official handover of the role following Paris 2024.