The Canadian Classics Women’s Rugby team is set to play the Rock Women at the Swilers Rugby Club in St. John’s, NL on August 27th. They bring with them a powerful message for young female athletes. The Classics are past international-level players. They start arriving in St. John’s on August Read more…
The Swilers Rugby Football Club and the Newfoundland and Labrador Rugby Union are honoured to welcome the Canadian Classics Women to our shores from August 25-28! The Canadian Classic Women comprise former international capped players, outstanding club presidents, coaches, ambassadors, mothers, and wives. Please join us on Thursday, August 25, Read more…
Title: 2025 Canada Games 7’s Coach Location: St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador Reporting to: Technical Director The Newfoundland and Labrador Rugby Union (NLRU) is the provincial sporting organization for rugby. The union works to promote, grow, and further the best interests of Rugby Union Football within Newfoundland and Labrador. The union currently consists Read more…
Team NL Rugby 7s is pleased to announce the team selections for the Canada Games to take place in Niagara, Ontario, in August 2022. The Newfoundland and Labrador Rugby Union congratulates all those selected, and the best of luck in Niagara next month! The program started training almost two Read more…
The Senior Women’s Rock team had a tough start Thursday evening in Halifax. They travelled through the early morning and then a day in the Halifax sun before the match paid its toll. With a final result of 20-19 in favour of the PigDogs, it was a hard-fought match from Read more…
The Rock Senior Women’s team departed to “Rock the Maritimes” this morning! This is the first tour for this team that was rejuvenated earlier this year. They are travelling to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island to play exhibition games as part of their training. They will play the Dartmouth Read more…
Team NL Rugby 7s is proud to announce the team to travel to Saint John, New Brunswick, to play in the third leg of the Atlantic 7s series of competitions between teams from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. This event will be part of Read more…
The Senior Men’s Newfoundland and Labrador Rock are Atlantic Super League Champions for the second year in a row. This afternoon, the Rock retained the championship by defeating the Nova Scotia Keltics 25-24 at the Swilers Rugby Complex in St. John’s. The following players played for the Rock during the Read more…
Yesterday, the Rock U18 team kicked off their tour against an experienced Croesyceiliog side on a beautiful day in Wales. A large local crowd enjoyed the match and after-match activities as we helped the club celebrate its 150th anniversary year. The Rock got off to a quick start with Read more…
Two Under 17 teams from Newfoundland and Labrador depart today for Surrey, British Columbia, to complete the first part of their YMCA Youth Cultural Exchange. Two teams from British Columbia will then travel to Newfoundland and Labrador from May 5th through 10th as the second part of the YMCA Youth Read more…