Rugby Canada remains a work in progress.
“That really got our energy back up after having a couple unforced errors,” her teammate Fancy Bermudez concurred.
Writ large, the challenges facing the Canadian sevens squads apply to Rugby Canada as a whole. Focusing in on the details should bring big-picture success.“There’s a lot of good here. There’s a lot of good people, a lot of good rugby people and there’s real talented players,” Bombrys said.Article content
He’s been in the job for six months and is in the thick of it. It’s an organization facing difficult realities as Canada’s playing base is thinly spread across the country, which makes holding national camps a financial challenge. Canada’s Keyara Wardley, back right, and Olivia Apps celebrate Wardley’s try against Ireland during HSBC Canada Sevens women’s rugby action, in Vancouver on Sunday, March 5, 2023.The cruel result for Canada is that as the men’s XVs has declined, the women’s XV has punched above its weight. They finished fourth at last year’s Rugby World Cup, an amateur side holding their own against fully professional teams like England.
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