2017 Junior Boys Rugby Provincial Championship Format

(Download Junior Boys Provincial Format - pdf file)

The inaugural 2016 Jr. Boys Rugby Provincial Championship featured a 4 team format. Therefore, for 2017 we are expanding to 8 teams.

Berths for the Jr. Boys Quarter-Finals will be allocated accordingly and played on Saturday May 27th  

Game A     1) Vancouver Island #1 vs  8) Wildcard Selection         @ Vancouver Island #1

Game B     2) Lower Mainland #1   vs  7) Fraser Valley #2            @ Lower Mainland #1

Game C     3) Fraser Valley #1         vs  6) Vancouver Island #2      @ Fraser Valley #1

Game D     4) Lower Mainland #2   vs  5) Okanagan #1               @ Lower Mainland #2

Please Note:
1)    These Quarter-Final matchups were pre-determined to ensure as much cross-zone play and ranking balance as possible.
2)    Only the top 4 teams will advance to the Semi-Finals. There is no loser bracket for 2017.

The Semi-Finals will be played on Wednesday, May 31st at Rotary Stadium, Abbotsford.

Game E     Winner of Game A vs Winner of Game D         KO   TBA

Game F     Winner of Game B vs Winner of Game C         KO   TBA

The BC Jr. Boys Final and Bronze medal match will be played at Rotary Stadium on Friday, June 2nd.  

Game G     Loser of Game E vs Loser of Game F             KO @ 4:30 pm

Game H     Winner of Game E vs Winner of Game F             KO @ 6:30 pm

A KO time of 2:00 pm will be used as the default time for the Quarter-Finals, but is subject to change depending on the needed travel arrangements for each team. The KO time for the Semi-Finals will be determined at the time that the Sr. Boys Provincial Schedule is set for that day.

The Wild Card selection will be made by a Jr. Boys Provincial Championship Committee and be based upon the size and quality of teams in all zones over the course of the season.

BC High School 7’s Championships

The BCSSRU and BC Rugby would like to invite your team to participate at the 2017 Provincial High School 7’s Championship.

• Download Coaches Invitation Letter (pdf format)

Event Overview:

The 2017 7’s Provincial Championship will be taking place on Friday, June 9th and Saturday, 10th at Brentwood College.  The tournament will be run as an Invitational 7’s event with no zone qualifying events in the lead up to the Provincial Championship.

Our hope is that the 2017 Event will feature two Divisions competing in two separate 12-team tournaments.

Important Dates:

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 – Invitations sent out to all BCSSRU Member Schools
Monday, March 27th, 2017 – Teams wanting to enter Tier 1 or Tier 2 must declare participation by emailing Mike Stiles at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monday, April 3rd – Tournament Guide and Rules emailed to participating schools
Sunday, June 4th – Draw emailed to participating schools
June 9th and 10th, 2017 – Provincial 7’s Championship, Brentwood College, Vancouver Island, BC

Please RSVP your attendance to the 2017 Provincial 7’s Championship to Mike Stiles at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Shane Thompson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Monday, March 27th  with the following information:

•    School Name:
•    Coach’s Name:
•    Coach’s Email:
•    Tier Preference:

Stadium Series 2017

The BCSSRU would like to announce the following dates for the 2016-17 edition of our Stadium Series. The first round will take place on the Lower Mainland at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby, Rotary Stadium in Abbotsford and possibly at least one other site on Friday, April 7th and Saturday, April 8th 2017. The second round will take place primarily on Vancouver Island at Centennial Stadium in Victoria and Shawnigan Lake School on Friday, May 5th and Saturday, May 6th, 2017. There will also be some games at the Apple Bowl in Kelowna in May. The Stadium Series Committee will be working with the Zone Reps to put together the full slate of venues, opponents and kick-off times and then send that out to all schools. A reminder, Stadium Series games are mandatory for all schools wishing to take part in the Provincial Championships because they are part of our ranking system.

Stadium Series Round 2: Friday, May 5,  2017

Vancouver Island, the Okanagan and the Fraser Valley

* Admission is $ 2 per student and $ 5 per adult at Centennial Stadium and Rotary Stadium only.

Zones:

LM = Lower Mainland            VI = Vancouver Island
FV = Fraser Valley                OK = Okanagan
Koot = Kootenays

Stadium Series 2017 Round 1: Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley and Victoria

Friday, April 7 & Saturday, April 8, 2017

Tony Whitham: A True Rugby Gentleman and Great Steward of our Game

Celebration of Life July 6th @ 2pm at the Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam

A Tribute by Chris Turpin, Gleneagle Secondary School

The rugby community in BC is saddened by the news that a true legend has passed away. Tony Whitham passed away on June 23rd . Tony was born in 1937 in Halifax, England. His early years were shaped by growing up in working class England during and after the war. His father was killed in action in France shortly prior to the Evacuation at Dunkirk in May 1940. Tony was raised by his widowed mother who helped instill a work ethic and values that Tony was famous for. Upon graduating from Manchester University Tony taught for three years at Highlands Technical Grammar School. In 1963, Tony persuaded his wife that winter could not be much colder in Canada. So Tony and his wife, Kathleen, and young daughter, Jo-Ann, moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Whithams stayed for three years in Winnipeg before moving to BC. Tony taught one year at Princess Margaret Secondary in Surrey. Then Tony made the switch to the growing school district of Coquitlam and taught at Centennial Secondary School from 1967-1973. In 1967 the Whithams were blessed with a second child, a son, named Bob.

Read more: Tony Whitham: A True Rugby Gentleman and Great Steward of our Game

Purdey’s late try carries the day, Stags find a way to hold off Saints in classic 4A boys rugby final

Posted on May 28, 2016. 7:49 pm
by Howard Tsumura - The Province

ABBOTSFORD — It was a match many had predicted would be a blow-out win in favour of the defending champion Shawnigan Lake Stags.

Instead, Vancouver’s St. George’s Saints never believed they were underdogs, and in the dying moments, almost had the opportunity to pull an upset of major proportions in the B.C. quad-A boys high school rugby championship final Saturday at Abbotsford’s Rotary Stadium.

Shawnigan Lake went on to win 12-8, but not before Owen Pitblado of St. George’s chipped the ball through the Stags try-zone with 1:13 remaining, and was just shy of pouncing on it for what would could well have been the game’s winning play.

Read Full Article Here

DAY 2 B.C. high school rugby: Elgin, Argyle, LV Rogers, Bateman punch tickets to gold Saturday

Posted on May 26, 2016. 2:14 pm
by Howard Tsumura - The Province

Here’s our look at semifinal Thursday at the BC high school rugby championships at the double-, triple- and quad-A level.

QUAD A
The Shawnigan Lake Stags produced a result Thursday in the semifinal of the B.C. high school championships which, based on their recent run of dominance, puts them in perhaps the most unique position in this province’s entire sports history.

Are the Stags, who beat the Fraser Valley champion Earl Marriott Mariners 102-10 to earn a berth in Saturday’s title game, the first team you can honestly say is so good relative to the rest of the field that the thing they need most, is a higher-level of league to play in?

Defending champion Shawnigan, which has won six of the last seven B.C. triple-A titles, will face Vancouver’s St. George’s Saints, 25-10 winners over Victoria’s Oak Bay Barbarians, in Saturday’s final.

St. George’s defeated Shawinigan Lake in the 2014 final, the only title-tilt loss by the Stags over their current run.

Read Full Article Here