McMaster women’s rugby head coach Sandro Fiorino has been selected as the head coach of the Canadian men’s team which will compete at the 4th World University Rugby Sevens Championship in Porto, Portugal.
Fiorino has been with McMaster for the past four seasons and has led the Marauders to back-to-back Ontario University Athletics bronze medals. Under [...]

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McMaster University men’s rugby players Tyler Ardron (Lakefield, Ont.) and Ryan Fried (New Hamburg, Ont.) will represent Canada as part of the Under-20 National team competing at the International Rugby Board Junior World Rugby Trophy tournament that gets underway this week. The event is being held in Moscow, Russia, May 18-30.
Canada has been placed in [...]

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McMaster men’s head rugby coach and kinesiology professor, Dr. Phil White, is taking a one-year research leave beginning on July 1, 2010.
A tenured professor with the McMaster School of Kinesiology for 23 years, White is traveling to New Zealand to deliver guest lectures at the University of Waikato (Hamilton, N.Z. and Tauranga, N.Z.) and the [...]

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Mohawk’s exciting Ontario Colleges Athletic Association rugby championship win on Nov. 14 has landed the Mountaineers two more awards.
Mohawk was named OCAA Team of the Week, following the Mountaineers 16-15 victory over the Humber Hawks at Fletcher’s Fields in Markham.
Joel Clarke, who scored the winning try in injury time, was selected the Male Athlete of [...]

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The Queen’s Gaels men’s rugby team capped a perfect season with a win over the Western Mustangs in the Ontario University Athletics championship on Saturday (Nov. 14) afternoon at Fletcher’s Fields.
The Gaels managed to hold on through five minutes of intense goal-line pressure to claim the 23-19 decision.

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