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In Pursuit Of Bill
Joy at home with tweets of support from Simon Pacey in the east to Kenny Goodland in the west, former NSMT players supporting and congratulating the current crop on yesterday's win! It was a tough start to the day for this writer as his beloved Wallabies received yet another "clinic" from the...
Canada Announces Strong XV
Coach Crowley has announced a very strong starting XV to play the U.S. in South Carolina this Saturday. Andrew Tiedeman gets the nod to replace Hubie at loose head and Ryan Hamilton starts ahead of Barkwill. The locks, Jab Sinclair and Cudmore bring a welcome edge, a mongrel that maybe has...
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...
Giving Back
CW Special Events Coordinator, Lucy Barwin wishes to thank the many CW players, parents, Board members and friends (!!) who volunteered at yesterday's Classic Car Show on The Avenue. After a rainy start the day went very well with some guys even getting back from Vancouver from the CRC game...
National Boys and Mens Age Grade Winners.
CW's Simon Gray, with a John Thiel look-alike beside him, chomps the gold after B.C. Gold (#1's) defeated Ontario by a score of 50 - 0 in the Final. A tip of the Ruggernut's cap to Dante Morandin and Simon (Ed. - add Gavin Kratz), who were members of the undefeated B.C. squad. We would be...
Let's Start At The Top
After watching Canada open the scoring within two minutes of the k.o. after a sixty meter scoot by Jessica Dovanne, evading some three or four English tacklers and convert.....the downstreaming left lots to be desired! Did manage to get "the lightning break" when players were forced to leave...
R.C. Goes Super Bigtime @ Red Nation!
Harry Jones and Tyler Hotson rang the bell today at the T.S.X. as Rugby Canada has now "gone...
Day #2 @ The Nats
Following Day #1's excellent results for BCRU age grade teams, Day #2, recorded some highlights and one major glitch, that being the Blue Ribbon game of the day at the U18 Men's level with BC #1 taking on Ontario. The Ontario team is a sizeable and experienced unit and led all the way with a...
B.C. Bears Growl
BC Bears open their CRC campaign tomorrow at UBC (7:00p.m.) It will be like a home coming event for CW as Buckley, Thornber and Morris let's add CW Mini and Jr grad, now with UVic, Luke Mc Closkey who will line up for the Bears with Franklin, Sampson and Gilmour on the other side with...
Canada Announces Squad Vs U.S. - RWC, 2015 Playdowns
Rugby Canada has announced its squad to play U.S. Eagles for early inclusion into the next RWC to be held in the U.K. The squad has notable strong inclusions - van der Merwe, Cudmore and MacKenzie, players who were not available for the summer series of tests. It will be devoid of Bydens,...
Rugby Canada Paves The Way
Things seem to be getting more and more challenging at the club level as the difficulties of developing and "keeping" players seems to be ever increasingly frustrating. Oftimes it seems that talent is snapped up into a more and more demanding international fifteens and sevens program. ...
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...
Go, You Good Things!!
Maple Leafs medal in Cali,...
Day #2 @ the World Games
The day opened with a solid win for Canada over Brazil by a scoreline of 26 to 7, with Hammond adding a singleton. The boys then went up against the Argies, always a tough go in South America - Rosario, Sao Paulo, Rio OR Cali! Los Pumas 19, Canada 7 (3 tries to one). So the boys were bound...
BCRU Announces New Head Honcho
Kiwi born and current Head Coach for BC Bears, Jim Dixon has been announced as the man selected to fill the CEO shoes Jeff Sauve had so capably worn over the past number of yonks. Dixon has had a meteoric career in a short time in B.C. His credentials include Rugby Development Officer...
Oak Bay Classic Car Show
Men and women, girls and boys, our Lucy still needs volunteers for next weekend's Big Show. She can be contacted at [email protected] OR 250 818 0050. Don't leave Lucy in the...
CW Boys Make Bears Squad
Matt Buckley, Jon Morris and Clayton Thornber have been selected for the B.C. Bears team of 27 players who will contest the C.R.C.s for this season. The team is a far stronger unit than that assembled in past campaigns but still obviously devoid of players from the current B.C....
Canada Women Torch England (Again!)
Canada's National Women's Team yesyerday defeated Englnd 29 - 25 at the Nations Cup being held in Colorado. The victory featured four good tallies. This is a four country event similar to that featuring U20 teams last month. The national squads of U.S.A., South Africa and England are...
Hubert Back to N.Z.
Canada's loss has become Manawatu's gain with the news that Hubert Buydens has finally inked a pro contract. In this writer's opinion, the man that most consistently stood out in the last RWC games for Canada was Big Hubie and it seems that he has finally received just reward with a two...
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...
Tide Topples Tourists
Pictured, firing one from the base of the ruck is CW U15 player, Braydon Tate. In splendid sunshine yesterday Victoria's Spring Tide teams at the U15 and U17 levels gave visiting West Monmouth School from Pontypool, Wales a rugby clinic, winning both games by a wide margin. The matches...
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 -...
CW Wants You!!
VICTORIA CLASSIC CAR SHOW CW will once again, be performing a civic volunteer effort at the Annual Classic Car Show. The club volunteers from 7:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. and we will be operating in four shifts of about 2.5 hours duration. This will require approximately thirty volunteers...