Canadian rugby 7s women advance to semifinals at HSBC SVNS World Championship

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 04, 2025 7:35 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

The Canadian women's rugby sevens squad precocious to the semifinals of the HSBC SVNS World Championship aft winning 2 of 3 matches Saturday successful Carson, Calif.

The last lawsuit of the play sees the apical 8 men's and women's sides from the top-tier HSBC SVNS vie successful the winner-take-all satellite title astatine Dignity Health Sports Park, which volition big rugby sevens astatine the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Canada, 4th aft the archetypal six events of the season, defeated No. 5 Japan 26-0 and No. 8 Great Britain 26-17 earlier falling 41-5 to No. 1 New Zealand.

Canada, which finished second successful Pool A, volition look unbeaten Australia successful 1 semifinal Sunday portion New Zealand takes connected the sixth-ranked U.S. successful the other.

New Zealand and No. 2 Australia person gone a combined 10-0-0 against Canada successful dominating the circuit this season.

In the archetypal twelvemonth of an Olympic quadrennial, the Canadian women person improved arsenic the play wore on, with manager Jocelyn Barrieau blooding a watercourse of caller endowment portion players rhythm betwixt the sevens and 15s sides.

The Canadian women finished eighth to unfastened the existent play successful Dubai, earlier placing 5th successful Cape Town, 4th successful Perth and seventh successful Vancouver, earlier placing 3rd successful some Hong Kong and Singapore.

New Zealand won tournaments successful Cape Town, Vancouver, Hong Kong and Singapore, portion Australia triumphed successful Dubai and Perth, Australia.

Asia Hogan-Rochester scored 2 tries and added 3 conversions successful the triumph implicit Japan. Florence Symonds and Olivia Apps besides scored tries.

Hogan-Rochester, Symonds, Apps and Charity Williams had the tries successful the Great Britain win, with Hogan-Rochester booting 3 conversions.

Carissa Norsten had the lone effort against New Zealand, which led 19-5 astatine the fractional earlier reeling disconnected 4 consecutive tries.

Canada finished 4th successful past season's finale successful Madrid successful June, beaten 26-14 by No. 1 New Zealand successful the bronze-medal game.

Canadian men aiming for Division 2

While the apical 8 teams vie for the satellite championship, teams 9 done 12 successful the HSBC SVNS are facing the apical 4 teams from the second-tier Challenger Series — including the Canadian men.

That was slated to beryllium a promotion/relegation playoff. But World Rugby announced Thursday it was changing the play format to a three-tier setup adjacent year, taking promotion and relegation disconnected the array this weekend.

Instead, the champion the Canadian men tin bash is marque the caller Division 2 adjacent season, with a accidental to past gain promotion to the revamped eight-team apical tier.

The Canadian men went 1-1 Saturday, losing 24-17 to Uruguay earlier rebounding to bushed Ireland 19-12. They wrapper up Pool B play Sunday against Germany (1-1-0)

Ethan Turner accounted for Canada's points successful the Uruguay nonaccomplishment with a converted try. Thomas Isherwood, Morgan Di Nardo and Kyle Tremblay scored tries successful the Ireland triumph with Isherwood and Turner each adding a conversion.