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Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
Let's Get the Vibe Back! CW Women face UBC women in two games and Meralomas RFC in one game at Windsor Park this coming Saturday. The Premier men have a week of R & R and an introspective look at getting the wheels back on the track. The 1st Div men play the Norsemen at UVic. ...
Errata - Saturday's Card
DINNER VENUE - PAVILION, 6:30 7:00 CANADA vs ENGLAND on the BIG screen HAPPY...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
BIG RUGBY DAY SATURDAY AT THE HOUSE This Saturday Abbotsford RFC visits Windsor for a day of Age Grade Boys rugby. This event was cancelled last year due to inclement weather. Abbotsford will be bringing 2XU18 teams, 2XU16 teams and an U14 team. CW will have 2XU18 teams with a little help...
Monday's (Belated) Musings
UNLEASH THE BEAST! (Today's snip shows Caps all kitted up with nowhere to go as fortunes changed - scoreboard 53 - 17). For the second consecutive week, CW found themselves in arrears at the interval. One wag opined that the boys “looked flat” coming out of the shed. This came to pass...
Meeting of the C's
Castaway Wanderers, Capilanos, Comox Tomorrow, CW Women Div.2 will travel to Comox where the opposition is always a handful. The women will be led by Ella Gallant, Avalon Crawford and Lauren Nott. Safe travels and play well. At home, both men’s teams are in action. Div.2 take on a...
Monday's Musings
Credit and thanks to John Richardson Images (HERE) CW Women Field Triad in Season Opener It is a tough ask to field three teams but a tremendous effort from our mushrooming women's program was on display for the first match of the new season. On...
TRICOLORS WIN ICE-BREAKER
Gabe on the go, (with the Three Wise Monkeys onlooking!). Credit, John Richardson. Yesterday at the House of Windsor, the season was only three minutes old when the visiting Meralomas opened their account. Pressure...
Bowd Returns!
The Faithful will be pleased to see the name of Gradyn Bowd slotted in the #10 spot for tomorrow's home opener at 1:00 p.m. Vs Meralomas. Bowd and #9, Pilgrim have featured in some memorable moments for the Tricolors. Grady has been plying his trade with the MLR professional league....
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
Shaye Ogurek, Unsung Hero – On & Off the Field Shaye (and "CW") – in her element. Today we bring our readers a great article to kick off the season. We recently sat down to learn about a CW pathway athlete that has maximized her rugby experience while completing her degree in...
Monday's Musings
AGE GRADE TO KAMLOOPS ALOHA! CW was easily indentified off the field at Kamloops last weekend! Kudos to Ed Knaggs, conceptualizer of Krazy road trip outfits. On the pitch, some 120 teams in 10 Divisions, from U14 to U18, boys and girls, took part in the competition. Teams came from...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul on Thursday!
DISCOVERY SPORTS CLUBOver the past year or more, we have discussed the DSC Clubhouse's financial and operational challenges. To address these issues, the DSC Executive, composed of CW Rugby and Castaways Soccer members, has been working diligently to...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
Last weekend saw the return of rugby to CW. Coach Ken Goodland took his senior men to MacDonald Park on Saturday where the two clubs, (JBAA) had a good run out. The afternoon started with two thirty-minute periods of full contact. This was followed by specific opposed work with separated...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
R.I.P., Curtis Bailey Curtis scores winning try Vs Rowers, 2019. It is with great sadness that the Castaway Wanderers community has learned of the sudden passing of Curtis Bailey from a helicopter crash on August 15th. Curtis played fullback (and occasionally scrum half), for the CW...
YES, YOU CAN!
CW’s Silver medalist, Caroline Crossley shared her medal recently with up-and-coming girl ruggers. Caroline put the kids through some drills and explained her roots with the game and talked about setting goals. ‘onya, Cross! PAC NATIONS - ROUND #2 - TODAY The Ruggernut showed...
A Summer Summary - Club Newsletter
(Photo - Rugby Canada) Castaway Wanderers would like to congratulate their pathway product, Caroline Crossley, and the National Senior Women's 7s team on their incredible run at the Paris Olympics culminating in a Silver medal. It is a new level for a program that was reset just after the...
EPIC OUTCOME
Photo - Ellis Rugby JUBILATION! Photo - Rugby Canada I have had to take time for this result to sink in! Just what does one write? How does one come up with sufficient superlatives to describe the NSWT 7’s Herculean effort to win a silver medal in Paris? The whole deal...
Monday's Musings
Medal Bound - Photo, Rugby Canada PATHWAY TO THE TOP ECHELON TRANSATLANTIC U20 QUAD SERIES Today we applaud the success of the NSWT U20’s who recently completed a sweep against the USA (23 – 10), England (36 – 33), and Wales (53 – 17). This is in stark contrast to the recent efforts of...
Monday's Musings
UPCOMING EVENT - FUNDRAISER FOR AGE GRADE TEAMS For all you hackers and hewers out there..... the club is holding a fundraiser on August 18th at Cordova Bay Ridge Course. Money raised will support travel costs for competition against mainland teams next season. A great Taco Buffet, post-game...
Monday's Musings
JOY IN MUDVILLE – NSMT’s MOMENTOUS WIN (Photo - Rugby Canada) It’s been a long time between drinks but total credit to the NSMT on their very solid victory over higher ranked, Romania on Friday evening. This group has been under tremendous pressure to breach a drought of losses, so there...
Paris Bound!
Today CW honors and congratulates Caroline Crossley who has been selected for the NSWT's VII's for the upcoming Paris Olympics. Caroline has been a member of CW rugby since her very young years. She has faced recent injury adversity, overcoming surgery and rehabilitation over an approximate...
Monday's Musings
Photo - Rugby Canada A fifty-point second half performance by a visiting second/third string Scottish team provokes today’s point of conjecture, that being, just how are Canada’s fixtures scheduled? Nothing is learned from a sixty-point shellacking. We can be as supportive all we...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
CW RUGBY ON, AND OFF THE FIELD Hats off to CW men who represented in a number of matches last weekend. The newborn, Vancouver Highlanders, opened their cause with a brace of wins. Their "A" team, featuring Jacob Bossi as a starter and Oliie Nott as an impact player, defeated Canada...
Wednesday's Ruck & Maul
This writer did receive some comments regarding a seeming lack of fairness of opinion in Monday’s Musings. With credit to Island Sports News the above photo shows much of what I observed in the game. With the line wide open and about the fifth recycle, a Canadian player was “held up”. It...
Monday's Musings
CW/UVIC SPEEDSTER, Spencer Cotie. Photo - Rugby Canada Men Mired in Mediocrity – Some Observations Following the NSMT’s Sevens abject results we now see our Men’s U20 program falling far behind the U.S. In chasing a 15-point deficit to get to the WC Tier II competition, things did...
Monday's Musings
BRICKBATS to RUGBY CANADA! Canada Men's U20 team took on their USA counterparts on Saturday at Shawnigan Lake School and came away on the losing end, 33 - 18. This writer's beef is the fact that Rugby Canada posted absolutely nothing about the match until late Friday. In fact, details of...