Super Saturday Scores
1st XV
Shawnigan Lake 36 vs St. George’s 29
St. Michaels University 38 vs Earl Marriott 24
Oak Bay 55 vs Magee 7
Brentwood College 55 vs Vancouver College 0
Ladysmith 64 vs Seycove 14
2nd XV
Shawnigan Lake 22 vs Carson Graham 22
Brentwood College 24 vs St. George’s 14
Cowichan 24 vs Earl Marriott 10
Pa’Kit 2009 – A Memorable Learning Experience
The fourteenth annual Pa’Kit Tournament, held in Penticton this past Easter weekend, was again judged a great success. This event was initiated by the local Harlequins Rugby Club as an opportunity for school teams to experience the game of rugby in an environment designed to encourage fellowship and the ‘rugby culture’ without an over-emphasis on wins and losses.
2008 Derek Hyde-Lay Memorial Scholarships
Two of the BCSSRU scholarships presented each year are dedicated to the memory of Derek Hyde-Lay who taught and coached at Shawnigan Lake School for a period of forty-five years. His contribution to school rugby in the province is equalled by few.
Shawnigan Lake Tour Highlights
Entries from Manager Rhodri Samuel’s Tour Diary
March 12 Our first stop of the tour was Bangor Grammar School (near Belfast). On the pitch, it was a well-earned 36-5 win for the 1st XV. We were more of a physical presence and scored three tries out wide. The 2nd XV lost 10-29, but it was a much closer game than the score showed.
Six Nations Matches Among Highlights of the Williams Lake Tour
Despite no wins and some lopsided scores against them, the Williams Lake Stags had a memorable tour to England and Wales. “I believe we were the first secondary school from the north to tour overseas”, commented coach Mike Levitt, “and for many of the twenty-three boys, it was their first trip off the continent”.
Port Moody Australia Tour…Check!
With nine stitches and two hundred and forty minutes of rugby, the Port Moody Blues returned home with more than a tan. The squad of forty players and a coaching staff of seven experienced an unforgettable sixteen day tour to Australia.
Challenging Tour to New Zealand for the Canada U-20 Team
Following the U-20 World Cup held in Wales last June, it was apparent that a lack of pre-tournament game experience was a detriment to Canada. Indeed two opening fixtures, against an Australian side packed with Super 14 players and an eventual finalist England, demonstrated the wide gulf between the top teams and the rest. Canada did make some rapid adjustments to the pace and power required at the tournament, bouncing back from two heavy losses to defeat Fiji before then falling, somewhat harshly, to Scotland in extra time.
Determined not to follow suit this year and prepared to take some medicine in advance of, rather than during, the 2009 tournament, the current U-20 squad embarked on a recent two-week trip to New Zealand, playing the Development XVs from Wellington, Taranaki and Hawkes Bay.
UBC and UVic Rugby Support the BCSSRU Scholarship Program
Meet three of our 2008 student-athletes, recipients of scholarships provided by the UBC ‘Thunderbirds’ and UVic ‘Vikes’ Rugby Football Clubs.
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Strong BC Representation on Canada U-17 Roster for Millfield Festival
There is a strong BC flavour to the twenty-six member Canada U-17 squad that will travel to Wales and England in late March.
Graduates from Kalamalka and Esquimalt Awarded 2008 BCSSRU Scholarships
Below are profiles of the two students awarded scholarships sponsored by x-treme Rugbywear Ltd, the official BCCSRU athletic supplier.
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