Head Coach Kevin Rouet has named Canada\u2019s 32-player squad for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025, which kicks off in Sunderland, England on 22 August.<\/p>\n
Canada will compete in Pool B with matches against Fiji at the York Community Stadium on Saturday, 23 August, before further matches against Wales in Salford on 30 August and Scotland in Exeter on 6 September.<\/p>\n
The team will be captained by 2024 World Rugby Player of the Year nominee Alexandra Tessier, who is set to play in her third RWC tournament. In all, 21 players return from Rugby World Cup 2021 (played in 2022) including veterans Tyson Beukeboom, Olivia DeMerchant and Karen Paquin, who are set to play their fourth Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n
Sophie de Goede and Emily Tuttosi are among those playing their second tournament. De Goede made a long-awaited return earlier this month following a significant knee injury and Tuttosi was Canada’s leading try-scorer three years ago in New Zealand with six.<\/p>\n
Eleven players will make their Rugby World Cup debuts and, in line with Rugby Canada\u2019s ‘One Squad’ philosophy, six of the country’s Rugby Sevens silver medallists from Paris 2024 – Caroline Crossley, Fancy Bermudez, Florence Symonds, Olivia Apps, Asia Hogan-Rochester and Taylor Perry – make the squad.
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“We believe in the group we have selected and we believe in the process we have taken to get to this point, but the work isn\u2019t done yet,” said head coach Rouet. “It all starts next month in England when we enter the next stage of our World Cup journey and officially get on the field in that first match against Fiji.<\/p>\n
“Since the last World Cup, our focus has been on building depth in the squad, so we had more than just 32 players who could step on the field and perform at any moment. We achieved our goal but as a result it meant needing to make some very challenging decisions.”<\/p>\n
Canada squad<\/p>\n
Forwards
Brittany Kassil (Guelph, ON) \u2013 Guelph Goats\u00a0
Caroline Crossley (Victoria, BC) – Castaway Wanderers \u00a0\u00a0
Courtney O’Donnell (Rimbey, AB) \u2013 Red Deer Titans Rugby\u00a0
DaLeaka Menin (Vulcan, AB) \u2013 Calgary Hornets \/ Exeter Chiefs\u00a0
Emily Tuttosi (Souris, MB) – Calgary Hornets \/ Exeter Chiefs\u00a0
Fabiola Forteza (Quebec City, QC) \u2013 Club de rugby de Qu\u00e9bec \/ Stade Bordelais\u00a0
Gabrielle Senft (Regina, SK) \u2013 Castaway Wanderers \/ Saracens\u00a0
Gillian Boag (Calgary, AB) \u2013 Capilano RFC \/ Gloucester-Hartpury \u00a0
Karen Paquin (Quebec City, QC) – Club de rugby de Quebec\u00a0
Laetitia Royer (Loretteville, QC) \u2013 St-Anne-de-Bellevue \/ Concordia University \/ Saracens
Maya Montiel (Dieppe, NB) \u2013 Saracens
McKinley Hunt (King City, ON) \u2013 Aurora Barbarians \/ Saracens\u00a0
Mikiela Nelson (North Vancouver, BC) \u2013 Capilano RFC \/ Exeter Chiefs\u00a0
Olivia DeMerchant (Mapledale, NB) – Halifax Tars RFC \u00a0
Pamphinette Buisa (Gatineau, QC) – Ottawa Irish\u00a0
Rachel Smith (South Surrey, BC) \u2013 University of British Columbia
Sophie de Goede (Victoria, BC) – Castaway Wanderers \/ Saracens \u00a0
Taylor McKnight (Stouffville, ON) – University of Guelph \/ Aurora Barbarians
Tyson Beukeboom (Uxbridge, ON) \u2013 Cowichan Piggies \/ Aurora Barbarians \/ Ealing Trailfinders \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Backs
Alexandra Tessier (Sainte-Clotilde-de-Horton, QC) \u2013 Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue RFC \/ Exeter Chiefs\u00a0
Alysha Corrigan (Charlottetown, PEI) – CRFC \/ Saracens
Asia Hogan-Rochester (Toronto, ON) – Toronto Nomads \/ Westshore RFC
Claire Gallagher (Caledon, ON) \u2013 Aurora Barbarians \/ Ealing Trailfinders\u00a0
Fancy Bermudez (Edmonton, AB) \u2013 Nor\u2019Westers Athletic Association \/ Westshore RFC \/ Saracens\u00a0
Florence Symonds (Vancouver, BC) – University of British Columbia\u00a0
Julia Schell (Uxbridge, ON) \u2013 Guelph Goats \/ Castaway Wanderers \/ Ealing Trailfinders\u00a0
Justine Pelletier (Rivi\u00e8re-du-Loup, QC) \u2013 Club de rugby de Qu\u00e9bec \/ Stade Bordelais\u00a0
Olivia Apps (Lindsay, ON) \u2013 Lindsay RFC\u00a0
Paige Farries (Red Deer, AB) \u2013 Saracens \u00a0
Sarah-Maude Lachance (Victoriaville, QC) \u2013 Club de rugby de Qu\u00e9bec \/ Stade Bordelais \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0
Shoshanah Seumanutafa (White Rock, BC) \u2013 Counties Manukau \u00a0\u00a0
Taylor Perry (Oakville, ON) – Oakville Crusaders \/ Exeter Chiefs\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head Coach Kevin Rouet has named Canada\u2019s 32-player squad for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025, which kicks off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,83],"class_list":["post-19028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}