Canada men and women to share rugby 7s stage in California with plenty at stake

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Canada's men and women volition stock the signifier May 3-4 astatine Dignity Health Sports Park, the rugby sevens venue for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Men were 3rd successful last Challenger Series lawsuit portion women are 4th successful play standings

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 27, 2025 10:26 AM EDT | Last Updated: 24 minutes ago

Female rugby subordinate runs down the tract with the shot successful hand.

Canada's men and women volition stock the signifier May 3-4 astatine Dignity Health Sports Park, the rugby sevens venue for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

But the 2 teams are facing antithetic challenges successful Carson, Calif.

The Canadian women are looking to decorativeness the play with a bang astatine the winner-take-all HSBC SVNS World Championship, which features the apical 8 men's and women's sides aft six events connected the elite rugby sevens circuit. Canada finished 4th successful the standings pursuing back-to-back third-place finishes successful Hong Kong and Singapore

Canada's men, meanwhile, are looking to triumph their mode backmost into the apical tier aft being relegated past June.

The Canadian women person been grooming with the 15s squad successful Chula Vista, Calif., up of the sevens finale.

"We solidified our foundations and are precise arrogant of our performances successful Hong Kong and Singapore," Canada women's manager Jocelyn Barrieau said successful a statement. "We person identified areas we privation to amended connected and the gaps we privation to adjacent going into Los Angeles.

"We person a talented, passionate, resilient radical of players, and we are each excited to get backmost connected the transportation unneurotic successful L.A."

The roster includes 8 players from the Hong Kong and Singapore squad.

Charity Williams, Asia Hogan-Rochester and Alysha Corrigan instrumentality to the squad aft past featuring successful Vancouver successful February. Like Williams, Savannah Bauder returns from injury. Larah Wright, who made her debut successful Perth, gets different invite.

5 to articulation 15s side

Following the California event, Corrigan, Hogan-Rochester, Florence Symonds, Mahalia Robinson and Olivia Apps volition articulation the 15s broadside for the remaining matches of the Pacific Four Series successful New Zealand and Australia.

The Canadian men finished 3rd successful the second-tier Challenger Series, earning a berth successful a promotion/relegation playoff that sees the apical 4 teams from the Challenger Series and the bottommost 4 sides from the HSBC SVNS conflict it retired for 4 spots successful the apical tier adjacent season.

The Canada men are coming disconnected a third-place decorativeness successful the last Challenger Series lawsuit successful Krakow, Poland.

"We've had this tourney circled connected our calendar each season," said Canada manager Sean White. "We've identified cardinal areas of betterment coming retired of Krakow and person made that our absorption implicit the past mates of weeks of campy successful Langford [B.C.].

"I judge our continuity successful enactment from Krakow to L.A. volition beryllium a payment to our on-field show and cohesion. Our purpose is to decorativeness the play arsenic 1 of the apical 12 teams, and we look guardant to earning the accidental to bash so."

The 12 players who represented Canada successful Krakow are joined by Kal Sager, who returns to the squad pursuing an injury.

The Canadian women person been drawn successful a excavation with Japan, Britain and New Zealand. The men are successful a excavation with Uruguay, Ireland and Germany.