NATIONAL SENIOR TEAMS
Ultimately, on the world stage, we strive to have our teams qualify for Men’s and Women’s future Rugby World Cups, and the Canadian 7s teams successfully achieve medal-winning performances at future Olympic Games.
In 2017, the high performance programs alone accounted for over $7.8 million, bringing our high performance program expenditure to over $32 million over the next 4 years. For context, while Canada has seven times the population of Scotland, Scotland spends six times the amount of money Canada does on their national team programs. While we have made great strides in our investment, we have much work to do to catch up with Tier I World Rugby nations and Olympic programs.
Men's Senior 15's Team, Women's Senior 15s Team, Men's Senior 7s Team, Women's Senior 7s Team
RUGBY CANADA PERFORMANCE ACADEMY
Newly created, this national high-performance men’s academy program targets players across Canada between the ages of 18-24 years who have been identified as having the potential to be elite players who can eventually move into professional and international rugby.
The program is nicknamed "Pacific Pride" in honour of a previous academy based out of Victoria that participated in the BC Rugby Premier League from 1996 through 2005. The Academy will run approximately 10 months a year out of the Rugby Canada Al Charron National Training Centre in Langford B.C., and will field its first team, competing as Pacific Pride, in the 2019-2020 Premier League season.
Rugby Canada Performance Academy
AL CHARRON RUGBY CANADA NATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE
In early 2018, a long-held dream became reality when the Al Charron Rugby Canada National Training Centre opened its doors. The Centre is the home of Canadian Rugby and represents the single largest investment ever made by Rugby Canada in our pursuit to make Canada a contender against the world’s best. This facility delivers a world class daily training environment where athletes can feed off one another, compete and grow –and raise the bar day after day together.
Al Charron Rugby Canada National Training Centre
MONTY HEALD FUND
Created to help fund Canada's Senior Women's 15s rugby program, this endowment will help foster success for our national women's team.
Monty Heald Fund
UNDER 20 MEN & WOMEN’S PROGRAMS
For many talented young athletes, the financial barriers to access sport at the high performance level are immense. A competitive athlete with potential to move up in the sport system will face a range of costs in order to make the leap, including training and equipment fees, higher level coaching and international competition travel expenses. By funding our age-grade teams we give the best young athletes increased access to our programs and a chance to stay in rugby. We will retain the best of the best when we eradicate the current pay-to-play model.
Under 20's Men's Team, Under 20 Women's Team
ROOKIE RUGBY
Rookie Rugby introduces the game of rugby in a safe way for kids of all ages through schools, clubs and community centres. The game is a non-contact form of rugby using flag belts, allowing players to learn the basics while being active and having fun with their friends. In 2018, Rookie Rugby saw over 90,000 children participate in rugby for the first time!
Rookie Rugby
AGE GRADE PROGRAMS
The Rugby Canada Age Grade programs act a vehicle for talent development and identification for youth playing within our provincial unions. These programs are designed to commence athlete tracking and introduce them to the national training environment with a goal to work up to our Senior National teams. With hard work and long term focus, we can provide the right tools for our young athletes to develop into international and professional rugby players.
