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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...
Kudos to Rugby Canada
It is great to report Rugby Canada "thinking outside the box". Last week, RC's Steve Lancaster, newly appointed, Kiwi Manager of High Performance and Mike Shelley, SMNT U20 Coach, visited the CFL trials for players selling their wares to the various Canadian scouts. This UTube Total...
U11's/U13's Go 8 & 0 @ Cowichan Jamboree
Hats off to CW Minis who made a splash at Shawnigan Lake Jamboree today (Sunday). The U11's and U13's went undefeated in winning four games each and playing some very good rugby in the process. Check out the photos for action pix. Thanks to our coaches today, Lance and Mark and all...
CW Bolsters The Ranks
Coach, Hyde-Lay has announced a strong XV for Saturday's Bayside encounter. Mike Scholtz has finally completed a long injury recouperation period and will join Mike Fuailefau in the centers. Although Fuli was called up for VII's duty, he saw little playing time, so this pair should be itching...
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 Visits The Sharktank
It has been two seasons since the Sharks and The Tricolors have squared off. Bayside looked much different those days, with the likes of Haley, Pajic, VanStavern, Conkin, Roberts, Blaak, Thiel, Riordan, Henderson, La Carte, all since gone! Bayside have battled the relegation/promotion demons...
South Africa Takes Home Prize As Sun Sets On Edo
Despite winning the Shield at Tokyo, Canada Mens Sevens squad dropped two places on the overall table, with both Australia and England vaulting back into the top ten. Day#2 saw the boys lose to Kenya, 5 -17 and drop to the Shield Competition. After a 35 - 0 drubbing of Spain, they...
Tenuous Start To Tokyo
Canada found the going tough in their opener at the Tokyo Sevens. Everyone wants a part of the "top ten" and hosts, Japan, containing names such as Loti Toquiri and one or two other of non-Japanese lineage, showed no respect in their 14 - 10 win over Canada in the tourney's opener. Japan...
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! ...
CW Minis Call It Quits For The Season
Mitch picks the gap! Minis wound up another successful season last Sunday, although there are hopes for U11 and U13 to compete at Shawnigan Jamboree on 7th April. It was a great morning at The Park, hosting cross-town, Velox. What a windup - hot dogs and cup cakes - does it get any better? ...
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)...