Girls Rugby
Inclement Weather Cancels A Great Day
The day that might have been......GREAT! Most unfortunately, Windsor Park has significant standing water late this afternoon and all rugby fixtures that had been planned for tomorrow - minis, girls and age grade boys and youth are cancelled. The forecast for tomorrow is .....much of the...
Age Grade Action All Day!
Sunday - Games On!! Windsor Park will be bursting at the seams this coming Sunday with age grade action. Minis kick off at 10:00 a.m. followed by U14's taking on Cowichan at 11:30. At 1:00 p.m. the U16 boys host Cowichan and the U18's open their season against Cowichan at 2:30 p.m. ...
Recapping The Weekend
Scotty ('The Bus') Franklin, on the rampage at Gordon Head. Relishing his return to #8, Scott had a solid game, being named MoM. (Game photos posted - credits, Ron Willems.) The two matches at Gordon Head produced somewhat stereotyped results, with CW opening up big leads and the home...
..........And Now For Something Rather Special
This promo video for Women's Rugby comes compliments of Rugby Canada. It is insightful to see just why the Women's program has been so successful over the past months. You go,...
Summer Sevens Series Winds Up
Learn From The Masters. King Of Sevens, Waisale Serevi will be present in Victoria on Friday, September 6th to offer a Specialist Training Camp for interested sevens playing youth, ages 7 - 12 and 13 yrs and older. Serevi's magic is known to many, leading Fiji to two RWC Championships in...
Girls Registration is Open !
Girls registration is open for the 2013/2014 season ! It has been a busy off-season for the Castaway Wanderer girls with many of the girls representing the Island and their Province in summer competitions. Many of the CW girls also turned out for the Victoria 7s as well. Congrats to...
REGISTRATION - Back To School - Early Bird Special
CW is pleased to finally announce that the BCRU electronic registration system for all players is up and running. To celebrate the occasion, the Club is announcing an Early Bird discount for ALL players, Minis to Senior who are electronically registered before September 8th. There will be...
Solid Gold
The thrill of victory shown on the faces of the "Ponytail Powerhouses", CW's Sophie De Goede and Caroline Crossley after their victory over Ontario in the National U16 Championship game. The girls, Soph @ #9 and Caroline @ #15 were major contributors throughout Pool play and again, in the...
How About These Ladies?
One cannot produce enough superlatives about our Nat's Women. After a close loss to the home team, U.S.A. the other day, the women were given a reprieve by their "friends", England who came up with a close win in an upset over the same and previously undefeated, U.S.A. The Maple Leafs had...
Ruggernut's Ramblings
Today's main news segues nicely into some musings that have been spinning around for some time after watching the meteoric growth of CW Girl's Rugby. "It's summer time and the living is easy" but the rugby calendar is still busy - PRC's; CRC's; Summer Games; World Games; Nations Cups,...
National Age Grade Championships
CW is proud to announce its more than fair share of boys and girls who will don the B.C. colors in search of a National Championship, starting next Wednesday at UBC. In the B.C. Girls U16 Gold Team - Sophie De Goede and Caroline Crossley carry the torch and the B.C. Blue Team will include...
U20 Women Go Undefeated
The Womens Nations Cup for U20 play goes to .... CANADA! The girls went undefeated in matches against the U.S.A. (2X - 27-3 in the Final!!), Great Britain and South Africa. Go, you good things! Back in Canadaland, the B.C. Mens U19 team won the Age Grade Championships with a hard...
Canadian Women All The Rage !!
Canadian Womens Rugby has hit the headlines again in the rugby world! WoooWeee! The Women finished in third place at the recently completed World Student Games in Kazan. They overcame Great Britain, 36 - 0 for the bronze medal. Meanwhile, the Womens U20 team has posted an undefeated 3 -...
Youth International Sevens - Huge Success
Canada's NSMT has lit up the Sevens world with a very successful winter campaign and if the action on show at UVic yesterday is any indication, the torch has been successfully passed down to our youth. Pictured is the B.C. Mens U18 team, winners in the Final over Ontario and featuring CW's...
Day #1 International Sevens
A classic day of high quality youth sevens under the best skies Victoria could offer, augering well for some epic playoffs tomorrow. Highlight of the day was the BC Gold Vs. Utah match, where B.C. had to come from behind to nut out the visitors 26 -19, in a less than stellar match but it had...
Future Olympians On Show
Today and Saturday a number of potential Olympians will take to the pitch at UVic for the Annual International Youth Sevens Tournament, featuring teams from; Ontario, Southern California, Washington State, Utah and England! Action begins at Wallace Field @ 10:00 a.m. when Sth Cal takes...
The Spirit Of Rugby
Heard the esprit de corps between Island Girls & Boys @ UBC on the weekend was FIRST CLASS. Shown here, the girls cheering on the boys on their way to do battle in the Final. Full video is here:...
CW Kids Shine!
It's a huge doff of the Ruggernut's cap to the 19 CW youth players who participated in the PRC tournaments held at UBC on the weekend. Firstly, the CW Girl's Sextet played a big part in a rather surprising upset win when the Island Tsunami defeated Fraser Valley, 10 - 7 in the final. ...
Rugby Canada Womens Sevens
CW would like all of our followers to take time to give a vote to NSWT member and Canadian Women's Player of the Year, Jen Kish. Jen is one of five nominees for IRB's Women's Sevens P-O-Y. Nominate players are; Kelly Brazier, New Zealand (213) Jennifer Kish, Canada (412) Kayla McAlister,...
CW's Everywhere, Man!
There is a good CW presence in Canada's Sevens Team recently announced to do battle at the RWC 7's Competition in Moscow, starting on June 28th. Captain Nanyak Dala is joined by Ciaran Hearn, Mike Fuailefau and Lucas Hammond. Other members are James Bay's John Moonlight who has been a rock...