The Canadian women’s rugby team is captained by Sophie de Goede of Victoria
The Langford-based Canadian women’s rugby team, captained by Sophie de Goede of Victoria, recorded the greatest victory in its history Sunday by rallying to beat the defending World Cup-champion New Zealand Black Ferns 22-19 in Christchurch.
“I don’t think it’s quite sunk in, but it’s really special to achieve something that’s history, for the first time,” said de Goede, who was a two-sport rugby and basketball star at Oak Bay Secondary. The enormity of the achievement will take a while to comprehend as Canada moved to No. 2 in the world rankings behind England.
“We knew we could do it. We just had to go out on the field and put the game down, and we did, and I think proud is probably the best word at the moment,” she added, in a statement.
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