Victoria BC
CW vs Burnaby Game in Review
On the most abysmal of afternoons, two CDI powerhouses met to do battle at Windsor Park. Burnaby Lake sought victory so that they could move towards confirmation of Home field status for the playoffs and CW, in a last ditch attempt to make the playoffs. Burnaby with the form also was after...
CW Gears Up To Host League Leaders
Home team, Castaway Wanderers, has announced a strong selection to play a rampaging Burnaby Lake team tomorrow at Windsor Park. The Lakers will be extra keen to add a CW scalp to a very impressive record in recent weeks in the CDI League. Burnaby, with a monstrous and very skilled pack, will...
Not Necessarily A Very Good Day!
Saturday last saw The Tricolors visit the Shark Tank. Bayside, a club battling relegation and their plight looking even more dismal following the Ravens win over hosts, JBA, provided more than sufficient creditable opposition for the visitors. The Ones needed a win and a win of some measure...
UVic Vikes Paste TBirds
UVic Vikes with five CW Junior "grads" laid a licking on UBC Birds at the weekend to win the 41st edition of the Brian 'Winky' Wightman Boot. The Vikes won their 16th consecutive contest. It is always great to see Island teams perform at their best and we congratulate Beau Parker, Luke...
CW Annual Fun(d)raiser Dinner
CW wishes to give a HUGE THANK YOU to all patrons who attended or contributed to our recent Annual Dinner, held at Uplands Golf Course. The evening was another outstanding success, enabling the Board to breath a collective sigh of relief, as the club remains solvent for another season! ...
The Weekend That Was!
The curtain draws on a very interesting weekend. Firstly, congratulations to the NSMT Sevens, marginally being nutted by Samoa 7 -12 in the Plate Final at Hong Kong. The boys earned 12 MAJOR points, moving up the ladder to ninth place, vaulting the more illustrious 'Poms'. An excellent...
Sevens Saga Resumes
Rugby Canada's Senior Mens Team opens pool play in Hong Kong this weekend. The men play, Hong Kong, Spain and Fiji. The SMT are joined by BC Youth U17's in a minor version of The BIGS. This will be another lead up to RWC Mens 7's to be hosted by Moscow in June. CW offers the club's best...
CW Womens Rugby Hits The News
This news is a little stale but CW wishes to congratulate Sophie De Goede - a Minis to Magic success story on her recent selection to play with the BC Womens U18 team at the Las Vegas Sevens. Sophie epitomizes the term "work ethic", plus being endowed with De Goede and White genes, being the...
Fergus Hall Recognized as BC High School, Male AOY
Castaway Wanderers product and Glenlyon Norfolk graduate Fergus Hall was recently recognized as the Sport BC High School Male Athlete of the Year at the 47th Annual Sport BC Athlete of the Year Awards. A standout in soccer and rugby, Hall was named one of three top BC male athletes. Hall...
CW Salutes Volunteer
With the launching this new web site, it is most fitting to recognize Charlie ("Duck") MacLachlan. 'Duck' is a former Wanderer and national team player and for the past five years, has hosted this site, as his way of "giving back". He has been a long time friend and supporter of CW since...
Video - Castaway Wanderers RFC over the years
This is the video that was shown at the Castaway-Wanderers' 2009 Fundraiser at the Uplands Golf Club. It features "vintage" pictures, cameo/candid video footage of various club folks, and highlight clips from our senior, junior, and mini (youth)...