Lee Bennet Now that rugby has truly become a global sport and their are opportunities opening up for players around the world your most effective selling tool is your own personal rugby highlight video. This morning on Youtube I did a quick search for rugby hightlight videos and found very few of them for female players. There … Read more
from Rugby Canada: The St. Francis Xavier University X-Women avenged their shutout loss to Guelph in last year’s national final with a convincing 37-0 victory over the Gryphons in the gold-medal match of the 2012 CIS women’s rugby championship, presented by the Town of Antigonish, Sunday afternoon at StFX Oland Stadium. Playing in front of … Read more
The original powerhouse in Canada West women’s rugby, University of Alberta Pandas, re-staked their claim atop the conference standings with a convincing 38-19 win over the six-time defending Canada West champion Lethbridge Pronghorns. The Pandas and Pronghorns are the only two teams to win Canada West titles in the sport’s 13-year history. With the win … Read more
Not alot of change in the top ten this week Alberta nd Concordia switch places , Acadia dropped oput of the top ten and Waterloo jumped into that spot. The regular season is now over in the OUA with one more week in the AUS and the RESQ and out west , big game next … Read more
This week we see a number of changes in the top ten Lethbridge drops out of the third spot down to 6th after a 38-17 loss to the University of Calgary. Calgary moves up from 7th into 5th. Queens and Laval move up one spot to round out the top four behind St FX and … Read more
This week was the first week all conferences were in action and we are starting to see some movement in the Top Ten Ranking Queens with another solid victory over McMaster moved up into 4th moving Laval to 5th and dropped McMaster out of the top ten. Everyone else moved up one and Western moved … Read more
At then end of week two no changes in the top ten , St . FX had a bye and the western teams have yet to start their season. All remaining top ten teams one their games. Special mention to the York Lion enbing there long losing streak with a 55-0 win over the Laurier … Read more
No real surprises at the end of week one with St FX , Guelph , Laval , Queens , Concordia , McGill recording wins McMaster dropped from 6th to 9th after losing to Guelph in the opening weekend but came back strong against York in their second game of the season. Lethbridge , Alberta and … Read more
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 … Read more
from Rugby Canada: The players from Canada’s National Senior Women’s team have a lot to say of their two coaches. John Tait, Head Coach of the women’s 15s and 7s teams, and Assistant Coach Sandro Fiorino, have earned the utmost respect from their players since the two men teamed up last summer. Together with the … Read more