Canadian InterUniversity Women’s Varsity Rugby Kicks Off Their Season

This weekend the  Canadian InterUniversity Sports Womens  varsity rugby season kicks off , this season we have 28 teams playing in five divisions from the Atlantic provinces across Canada to Brtish Columbia.

This level of rugby is equivalent to D1 rugby in the USA University system. Winners of each Division along with the Host team will meet at the end of the season to compete for the title of CIS Womens Rugby Champion.

This year with the support of Your Scrum Half Connection we will be providing game updates , scores and rankings to help promote the Canadain University Womens Game. This past weekend the Ohio State team travelled to Toronto to play two exhibition games against York University. York won both games but it was a great experience for all the players that participated a return game will be played at Ohio State at then end of the school year.

Divisions;

AUS (Atlantic) -St, FX , Acadia , St, Marys , St. Thomas , UPEI

Canada West- UBC , Victoria , Calgary , Alberta , Lethbridge

Russel Divsion Ontario- McMaster , Queens , Trent , York , University of Toronto

Shiels Division Ontario-Brock , Wilfred Laurier , Waterloo , Western , Guelph ,

RESQ Quebec/Eastern Ontario- Ottawa ,Carlton , Laval , Bishops, McGill, Montreal ,

Concordia, Sherbroke

Last Years CIS Champions were Guelph with St FX runners up

Final Ranking Week 8: October 25, 2011

1. StFX (1)
2. Guelph (2)
3. Lethbridge (3)
4. Laval (4)
5. McMaster (5)
6. Concordia (6)
7. Alberta (7)
T8. Queen’s (8)
T8. McGill (9)
10. Calgary (10)

 

First Ranking WOMEN’S RUGBY : September 4 , 2012
(regular season record) / votes (first-place votes) / (previous rankings)

1. StFX (0-0) / 138 points (7) / (-)
2. Guelph (0-0) / 116 (5) / (-)
3. Lethbridge (0-0) / 110 (2) / (-)
4. Laval (1-0) / 89 / (-)
5. Queen’s (0-0) / 87 / (-)
6. McMaster (0-0) / 73 / (-)
7. Concordia (0-0) / 62 / (-)
8. Alberta (0-0) / 33 / (-)
9. McGill (0-0) / 30 / (-)
10. Calgary (0-0) / 18 / (-)

Other teams receiving votes: Brock (8), Acadia (6), Waterloo (5), Western (5), UPEI (3), Ottawa (1).

Games played on the weekend:

Sep. 2	Carleton	7	Ottawa	41	Final
Sep. 3	Montreal	0	Laval	74	Final