Victoria Mundell / Staff reporter
The girl’s rugby team ranks in fourth place at the BC provincials’ competition out of 8 schools.
“I’m feeling good [about the results], we put a lot of effort into the season, and it showed throughout our games,” said Hailey Mynott, grade 11. “They were very physical, and we didn’t have a lot of subs, so we did a good job with what we had.”
The girl’s rugby provincials were held in Abbotsford at the Rotary stadium from June 1-4, where the team faced an easy first round against Earl Marriott secondary school as Mynott described. They won with a score of 48-10 and continued on into the competition to lose to Yale secondary and W.J. Mouat secondary in later games.
They fought hard considering their circumstances as Mynott explained “Doing three games in one week was very physically tough, I could see it in a lot of the girls; all of us were limping and holding are heads. For most games we would have a week or so to recover but having it Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday in a row was really hard.”
The girl’s rugby team came to BCs in fourth place with only having lost two games in the entire season.
“The season has gone better than I expected,” said team coach Simon Quinto. “We had it really tough; we had practices where we didn’t have full teams and we had very low numbers in the beginning.”
From each player’s hard work and with the support of coaches Quinto and Peter Jones, the team grew massively according to Caspian Lou, grade 10.
“We started out a little confused because there were a lot of new players, but we grew really strong.” Lou continued.
Most of the players were new to the team this year, with only four having played rugby before, but despite these factors, they solidified their place as a top-four team in BC.
“Going from a team of people who never touched a rugby ball in their life to provincials’ bond was amazing, so I’m really proud of us,” said Mynott.
Now that the season has come to an end there won’t be any more official competitions, but there are possible exhibition games in the future, so for the time being there will continue to be practices on Monday-Wednesday from 3:45p.m.-5:15p.m.