Vancouver Sevens Invitational (VSI) 2025
England Premiership Women’s Rugby – January 2025
Round Fifteen Results from English Premier: 18 Canadian Players in Action
There were 18 Canadians in action in Round 15 of the Premiership Women’s Rugby in England. Krissy Scurfield (2T) and Tyson Beukeboom (1T) scored tries for their sides. The results and standings are listed below.
BC Rugby League Standings – January 25th 2025
BC Rugby League Standings for Men’s Premier, Div 1, Div 2, Div 3, Women’s Premier, Div 1, Div 2
Thanks to Peter Muirhead who put together these league tables for the weekend of January 25th 2025. He’s included a playoff “snapshot” which will be updated each week as the standings change.
CanWest 7s 2025 – Edmonton
UBC Win 1st Tournament of Women’s CanWest Series; TWU 2nd, UVic 3rd
The three BC universities took the top 3 spots in the first tournament of the three tournament CanWest series. The big surprise was TWU edging UVic for second spot as they won the head to head 12-5. UBC were the dominant team in the tournament going undefeated. Adia Pye of UBC was the leading try scorer with 8 tries, scoring at least one try in each of UBC’s matches.
Perth 7s 2025 – January 24-26
Canada Finish 4th at Perth 7s: In Pool with Australia, Brazil and Spain at Vancouver 7s in 26 Days
Canada finished 4th in Perth, their best finish of the season to date after finishing 8th and 5th in previous tournaments. Canada now sit in 5th place, 8 points behind USA and 2 points ahead of Japan with 3 tournaments left before the final.
BC Rugby Weekend of January 25th 2025
Spring Season Starts This Weekend in Men Div 1, 2, 3 and Womens Div 1, 2; Premier Starts Next Weekend
Rugby restarts this weekend in all divisions except Premier, which starts next weekend. The current standings going into the spring schedule are listed here.
MLR Updates – January 2025
Six Canadians in Fiji Drua vs LA Match This Evening; Seattle Seawolves vs Canada Selects Match Called Off; Archive of Seattle Seawolves vs Crimson Tide Match December 2018
A couple of MLR preseason news items that impact Canadian rugby fans. The LA franchise is in Fiji to play the Drua this evening, the team includes 6 Canadian players. Also the Seattle Seawolves match vs Canada Selects, scheduled for Feb. 7th has been called off, the Seawolves will play the local Seattle club side instead.
Editorial: Rugby Canada Damage Control, Out of Control
Rugby Canada and RugbyPass (Owned by World Rugby) Do Damage Control on Steve Meehan Hiring
The Steve Meehan hiring is basically old news, most Canadian rugby fans aren’t happy but they’ve moved on. Which is why it’s difficult to understand why RugbyPass posted a Rugby Canada explanation today (January 21st) that was extremely poorly presented and not very credible. It’s an Ai (artificial intelligence) voice reading a script to slides, it’s not very convincing.
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