Meehan Names Match 23 to Host Zimbabwe in Winnipeg: Coats and Rumball Return to Roster
BC Rugby Announce U19 and U17 Teams Travelling to Ontario for National Championships
Women’s English Premier – PWR Week 2
PWR Week 2 – Thirteen Canadians in Rosters Over Four Matches
There were 13 Canadian players in action in the English PWR over the weekend. Sophie de Goede and Gabrielle Senft were missing from the Saracens rosters but Exeter used all their 5 Canadians with Alexandra Tessier getting the starting fullback role. Fancy Bermudez was in the reserves for Loughborough. Saracens had four Canadians starting Corrigan, Omokhuale, Royer, Apps with Farries in the reserves. Sara Svoboda for Harlequins and Holly Phillips for Bristol both got starting roles. Ealing with 7 Canadians had a bye week. Gloucester and Bristol are the only undefeated teams early in the season.
Women’s University Championship – 2025
UBC Defend Title on Last Minute Try: UBC 15 – UVic 13
UBC repeat as U SPORTS champions with a last minute win over UVic. UVic went up 3-0 in the first quarter on a penalty kick, UBC scored the first try set up by a strong run by prop Kiki Idowu and finished off by fullback Olivia Saraburu, 7-3 for UBC. UBC added a penalty in the second half to go up 10-3. UVic hit back with a halfback combination try, #9 Justine Blatt Janmaat with the line break and offload to #10 Ella O’Regan, 10-8 for UBC with 20 minutes left. UVic wing Eden Kilgour put UVic ahead with a try outside with 5 minutes left, 13-10 for UVic. UBC scored at the whistle, a try outside by wing Adia Pye, 15-13 UBC to end the match
BC Rugby Weekend of November 1st 2025
BC Premier Week 6 Results: Vikes Fall to Burnaby, Ravens Topple Bays, Caps Top Lomas, UBC Dominate CW, Pride Crash at Westshore; Women’s Premier Burnaby Upset by Lomas, CW Defeat UBC, Abby Outscored at Westshore
It’s Week 6 in the 19 Week league, so about 1/3 through. Each team plays a home and away with the other 8 teams plus one home game against the Pride for 17 games in total per team, except the Pride. There’s no Premier rugby on Remembrance Day weekend, play resumes November 15th.
UBCOB Ravens – October 2025
Ravens Survive First Half : Report by Peter MacDonald
Ravens 33 – UVic 21
With young Kiwi referee Cole Northcote presiding on a cool but thankfully drying afternoon at Jericho U Vic had no sign of ferry legs and brought the heat early. A UVic forwards try at 5 minutes woke up the Ravens who answered with two tries of their own through their forwards and #9 Billy Wickham by the 15-minute mark, 14-7 Ravens. But then UVic took over the game, dominating territory and possession till the half.
BC Club Youth Rugby – October 2025 Updates
A Look at the BC Club U16 & U18 Competitions with 3 Weeks Left in Regular Season
The BC club youth regular season goes to November 16th, the quarter-finals are November 23, semi-finals on the 30th and then the Island v Mainland finals will take place on December 7th at the Langley Events Centre.
Some of last year’s winners look well placed for a return to the championship. In boys U18 last year it was CW over Ravens for the title and this year both teams look on track for a repeat matchup, Abbotsford on the mainland will be the Ravens biggest threat and on the Island both Salish and Cowichan are chasing CW. At the boys U16 level last year it was Abbotsford taking down CW for the title but this year it looks like James Bay are the leading Island team and Capilano and Ravens are leading on the mainland.
Canada Men’s XV – November Tour 2025
Canada Announce 33 Players for November Tour – Coaching Changes, New Players, 13 BC Premier Players on Tour
Coach Stephen Meehan has named 33 players for the November tour to Europe to play Romania, Georgia and Portugal. A few early observations, Phil Mack isn’t mentioned in the coaching staff which seems to confirm rumours there was some falling out with Stephen Meehan and he’s not part of the coaching staff anymore. We’ve reached out to several sources for confirmation. The coaches are listed as forwards coach Anthony Mathison, the fellow Australian who seems to be Meehan’s right hand man, Graeme Moffat skills coach who is the head coach at the University of Lethbridge, and Callum Gibbins who is now listed as defence coach. Gibbins currently seems to be the head coach of the Conestoga Condors, a college in Kitchener, Ontario. He was previously a high level player from NZ, most recently playing with Old Glory in the MLR.
From the Editor’s Desk – October 2025
BCRU Offers Invitation to “Develop Your Game in BC” this Winter, RC Starts “Task Force” on University Rugby
There were a couple of media releases last week that caught my eye, the first was the BCRU official invitation to players from across Canada to come west to play in the BC leagues this winter. I like it, it’s a no brainer for me. When we had national team coaches who were immersed in Canadian rugby, it was a given, they recognized it was the only place in Canada to play rugby in the winter. They would encourage players to move west. Now that we have coaches on the men’s side that have no background in Canadian rugby, the BCRU have to state the obvious. The last Canadian coach of the men’s program was Ric Suggitt in 2008, it’s crazy, 17 years since we’ve had a Canadian at the helm of the men’s program. The BCRU media release is posted below, hopefully we’ll see some results. A lot will depend on what happens with the MLR and where players who don’t pick up contracts will go. The national team coach will have an impact based on the message he’s sending to players.
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