Congratulations to the following teams on their successful tours
overseas this past Spring Break.  Click below for scores and highlights
of the tours listed.

Lord Byng ‘Grey Ghosts’ to New Zealand
Click on http://greyghostnewzealandtour2012.blogspot.com/

Okanagan Mission "Huskies" to Ireland
Click here for OKM RFC Ireland Tour 2012 Recap

St. George’s ‘Saints’ to Australia and New Zealand
Click on http://stgeorgesrugby.wordpress.com/

A reminder to graduating rugby student-athletes that the application deadline for all BCSSRU Scholarships is Friday, April 13, 2012. Criteria and Application Procedures are set out in detail on the scholarships page of this website.

Please note that it is not necessary for a candidate to specify a particular scholarship in Section A.  Also, the jointly sponsored BCRRS/BCSSRU Referee Scholarship is targeted to graduating students who have a strong interest in refereeing rugby, and who intend to complete the two levels of IRB certification in this field.

If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them to Brian Lynch, Chair of the Scholarship Committee, at brianlynch40@shaw.ca.

Best wishes for success to our senior teams traveling within Canada, as well as to the United States and overseas, this Spring season

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Now that we are into the New Year, zones as well as individual school programs are turning their attention to the upcoming season which gets under way on Monday, March 5.  The Northern Interior Zone held their meeting in conjunction with the Sevens tournament held at Williams Lake Secondary in late October, and the Fraser Valley meeting was held at the Abbotsford RFC this past November.

Upcoming meetings are scheduled as follows:

• Lower Mainland:  Tuesday, January 17 – 4:00 pm at St. George’s School (Vancouver). 
  Contact:  Pat Palmer   (ppalmer@stgeorges.bc.ca ).
• Okanagan:  Wednesday, January 18 – 6:00 pm at Kalamalka Secondary (Vernon)
  Contact:  Ian Busfield   (busfieldrugby@yahoo.ca ).
• North Vancouver Island:  Thursday, January 26 – 2:30 pm at the Longwood Brew Pub (Nanaimo). 
  Contact:  Ken Erikson   (kenkerik@shaw.ca ).

Further information concerning Zone Contacts and League Schedules will be posted on this website’s Zone Information pages as it becomes available.

Claremont Secondary (Victoria BC) is set to host its fourth annual Scrum Fest Tournament.  The event will run over three days (April 12 to 14), and feature roughly thirty teams in three divisions – Senior Boys, Junior Boys and Mixed Grade Girls.  Participants include teams from Vancouver Island, the Lower Mainland, the Okanagan, the Northern Interior, as well as touring teams from Alberta, Ontario and Australia.  Each team will play three pre-arranged games. 

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From time to time the BC Rugby Referees’ Society will publish a newsletter featuring discussion on the Laws of the Game, and the impact they have on the way the game is played in British Columbia.  As the IRB clarifies the Laws with its policies and rulings, it is hoped that this newsletter will do the same for officials, coaches, players and fans.  For a copy of the current laws, go to http://www.irblaws.com/EN/downloads

• Click here for the full text of Whistle Talk – Volume 3  Edition 3
• Click here for the full text of Whistle Talk – Volume 2 Edition 3
• Click here for the full text of Whistle Talk – Volume 2 Edition 2
• Click here for the full text of Whistle Talk – Volume 2 Edition 1
• Click here for the full text of Whistle Talk – Volume 1 Edition 4
• Click here for the full text of Whistle Talk – Volume 1 Edition 3
• Click here for the full text of Whistle Talk – Volume 1 Edition 2
• Click here for the full text of Whistle Talk – Volume 1 Edition 1

• Our Season of Play starts on Monday, March 5, 2012.  Competition between a school team and a team outside that school may not take place before that date.
• Student-Athlete Registration Forms must be submitted to the BC SCHOOL SPORTS office by way of the on-line registration system no later than April 5, 2012.  Please carefully read Section C2.3 (Adding Names to Student-Athlete Registration Form) in the BCSS Directory – Competitive Rules and Regulations 2010-2011.
• Applications for BCSSRU Scholarships must be received no later than April 13, 2012.
• BCSSRU Sevens 2012 will be held on April 21 and 22, 2012, and will be hosted by St. George’s School (Vancouver BC).
• The final day on which teams may qualify for Provincials 2012 is May 17, 2011.  The final rankings and game schedules will be posted on the website the following day.
• Provincials 2012 will be held as follows:
  Round 1 Games (at various locations around the Province) on May 26, 2012.
  Rounds 2, 3 and 4 Games at the Rotary Stadium and Exhibition Park Complex in Abbotsford on May 30, 31 and June 2, 2012.

Congratulations to our sixteen successful candidates for the 2011 BCSSRU Scholarships. For profiles and photos of the winners, please click on the 2011 Recipients page.

We are pleased to announce the sixteen candidates who have been awarded BCSSRU Scholarships for 2011.  These were presented at the Provincial Championships held at Rotary Stadium (Abbotsford) during the week of May 28 to June 4, 2011.

BC Secondary Schools’ Rugby Union Scholarships
 Luke Campbell (Oak Bay)
Josh Hamilton (G.P. Vanier)
Jonathan Parkin (Yale)
Jesse Richardson (Rockridge)

Derek Hyde-Lay Memorial Scholarships
Lukas Belkovec (Shawnigan Lake)
Daniel Jenkins (Prince of Wales)

Pacific Northwest Over 40 Rugby Union Scholarship
Bryan Hong (Sir Charles Tupper)

BC Rugby Union (Benj O’Connor) Scholarship
Aden Jack (Oak Bay)

Donn Spence (UBC) Scholarship
Liam Murphy-Burke (Semiahmoo)

Bruce Howe (UVic) Scholarships
Callum Busfield (Kalamalka)
Patrick Kay (Cowichan)

Lower Mainland Zone Scholarships
Eric Chau (Sir Charles Tupper)
Nik Marshall (Sentinel)

BC Secondary Schools Rugby Scholarships
(sponsored by International Athletic Ltd. and KooGa Made for Rugby)
Cameron Lawson (Prince of Wales)
Alex Mascott (St. George’s)

BC Secondary Schools’ Rugby Union/BC Rugby Referees’ Society Scholarship
Hubert Wang (St. Michaels University)

Short biographical summaries and photos to follow shortly.

The 2011 Annual General Meeting will be held in the Legacy Sports Centre Banquet Room (Rotary Stadium, Abbotsford) at 9:00 am on Thursday, June 2. 

• Click here for the 2011 Annual General Meeting Agenda
• Click here for the Proposed Addition to Section 2 (Purposes) of the BCSSRU Constitution
• Click here for Minutes of the 2010 Annual General Meeting

Please download all of the documents and information you require for the meeting.  There will be no additional copies available on the Thursday morning.