Ontario Blues

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Full nameOntario Blues Rugby Football Club
Founded2009
LocationToronto, Ontario
Canada Ontario Blues
Full nameOntario Blues Rugby Football Club
UnionRugby Canada
Founded2009
LocationToronto, Ontario
GroundFletcher's Fields (Capacity: 3,000)
LeagueCanadian Rugby Championship
Team kit
Official website
www.rugbyontario.com

The Ontario Blues are the senior men's representative rugby union team for Ontario. They were founded in 2009 to compete in the Americas Rugby Championship against other representative teams from Canada, Argentina, and the United States. In their inaugural season, the Blues suffered narrow losses against British Columbia and the Wolf Pack before defeating the Rock to advance to the Canadian Final. The Blues would again lose to BC, but defeated the U.S. Selects in the bronze medal match.

In 2010, Rugby Canada changed the format of the Canadian competition of the ARC, introducing the CRC. The four Canadian teams which competed in the ARC stayed the same, but now played in the CRC, with a Canadian Selects team being chosen from CRC players, and that selects team going on to represent Canada at the ARC. The Blues went on to win four straight Canadian Rugby Championships from 2011 to 2014 during a stretch where they were 19 wins and one loss over three seasons. The Blues have since won the MacTier Cup in 2016 and 2018.

In 2017, Rugby Ontario announced that their entire provincial rugby program would be branded under the name "Ontario Blues", replacing the "Ontario Storm" name which had been used for the women's team. The Ontario Blues name now encompasses all provincial representative teams of Rugby Ontario. This includes age-grade competition (U15-U18), development squads (U19 Men's and U20 Women's).

The Ontario Arrows are a privately funded elite club, which is closely related to the Blues organization, that is in negotiations to join the professional Major League Rugby for the 2019 season.[1][2][3][4] The club will play exhibition games in 2018 at York Lions Stadium.[5]

Season Records

Americas Rugby Championship

Season Position Played Won Drawn Lost Bonus Points
2009 2nd (Round-robin)310237
Canadian final BC Bears 12 – 8 Ontario Blues

Canadian Rugby Championship

Season Position Played Won Drawn Lost Bonus Points
2010 3rd310226
2011 1st5401420
2012 1st5401420
2013 1st5000323
2014 1st6501424
2015 2nd210115
2016 1st4301214
2017 2nd4202313
2018 1st 4 3 0 1 2 14

Honours

Current squad

Squad for the 2018 Canadian Rugby Championship season.

Props

Hookers

Locks

Flankers

No 8

Scrum Halves

Fly Halves

  • Shawn Windsor
  • Kieron Martin
  • Roman Cao-Riquelme

Centres

Wingers

Fullbacks

Notable players

Canada

The following players have represented Canada at full international level.

  • Tyler Ardron
  • Stu Ault
  • Ray Barkwill
  • Brett Beukeboom
  • Rob Brouwer
  • Aaron Carpenter
  • Paul Ciulini
  • Alistair Clark
  • Andrew Coe
  • Derek Daypuck
  • Tom Dolezel
  • Andrew Ferguson
  • Eric Howard
  • Kainoa Lloyd
  • Jamie Mackenzie
  • Phil Mackenzie
  • Mark MacSween
  • Rory McDonell
  • Ander Monro
  • John Moonlight
  • Dan Moor
  • Taylor Paris
  • Dan Pletch
  • Mike Pletch
  • Lucas Rumball
  • Mike Scholz
  • Djustice Sears-Duru
  • Mike Sheppard
  • Matt Tierney
  • Liam Underwood
  • Andrew Wilson
  • Jordan Wilson-Ross
  • Doug Wooldridge

Games played against international opposition

References

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