by CVKickers | Mar 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
Chelsea Llewellyn hadn’t played rugby for four years but last Saturday she laced up her boots to join some of her former J.P. Vanier team-mates and help power the Kickers Women team to its biggest win of the season. Chelsea scored a record-setting five tries as the Kickers romped over the visiting Velox Valhallians, 67-19. A player of enormous talent, athleticism and graceful running, Chelsea, who played for Canada at the U-19 level and B.C. at the Senior level, began in the centre for the Kickers and scored her first try near the end of the first half. In the second stanza, playing both centre and scrum-half, she ran in another four tallies, capping a twenty-five point afternoon. “I have been away from the Valley playing at U. Vic. for five years and then I was completing my Sea-King helicopter training with the military — winning my wings in November. When I recently came home for a couple of months before reporting to my first posting in Victoria, some of my former teammates from Vanier days asked me to come out for a game with the Kickers,” says Chelsea. “It was great to be back on the field.” Asked which of her tries she thought best, she offered that the one she took while playing scrum-half was the cream of the crop. “ I don’t think there were a single pair of eyes on me when I took the quick tap penalty and ran in. It’s always nice to get one over on the opposition with a bit of quick thinking.” Not to be outdone, Kicker fly-half Paula Moore...
by CVKickers | Mar 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
When the Naional team coach comes up to you after a trial match, puts his arm round your shoulder and congratulates you on your fine play, there’s a better than even chance you’ll be selected to the team. Canada’s National Team Coach Jim Delaney did exactly that to Comox Valley Kicker’s centre Connor Willis last month and just the other day Connor received word that he has been selected to the Canada U-17 team to tour England this Easter. Never in Doubt! Willis is a fantastic rugby talent who has risen through the ranks of the Investors Group Comox Valley Kickers Juniors, the Lake Trail School XV, the Vanier School XV, the Vancouver Island Tsunami, the British Columbia and the Canada U-17 “B” squads to reach the pinnacle he has now attained. Willis has consistently been the star of any of the teams he has played for, scoring tries, defending assuredly and kicking points with his boot, and it is his awareness of space and his ability to read the field that makes Connor such a promising player for even higher honours in the future. To top it all he is an Honor Roll student as well as a very capable athlete which should see him win athletic scholarships down the road. Last year when he was sixteen, Willis played for the Canada’s U-17 “B” domestic squad on a three-game tour around B.C., but this year won elevation to the Canada “A” squad that made a two-game Christmas tour to California during which Willis scored a try against the U.S. All- Americans in the team’s final game. “It was...
by aimee | Feb 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
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by CVKickers | Feb 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
On February 27th the Comox Valley Kickers Rugby Club begins its second Mini rugby program at the club’s Fallen Alders facility on the Royston Road. Children, both male and female, aged between six and fourteen are encouraged to sign up for six weeks of fun-filled, non-contact Mini Rugby. “Last year’s initial program was a huge success,” says Kicker’s Director of Rugby, Colin Chappell. “We had about twenty children and most of them will be returning this year. As well, I have had a good number of parents inquiring about this year’s program, which is very encouraging. The more the merrier.” Mini rugby involves non-contact and girls and boys play touch rugby together at the lower age levels. They play on a small portion of a full rugby pitch and teams consist of only seven or nine children a-side. The idea is for them to have fun while learning a new sport. The youngsters have the opportunity to enjoy the social side of the game at too, at non-competitive “Mini Rugby Jamborees” involving other clubs. All the coaches are qualified and certified to teach Mini rugby. “This year we are going to have Under-8, U-10, U-12 and U-14 age groups and registration begins on Sunday, February 27 between 10.30 a.m.and noonat the Fallen Alders grounds. It costs $75 to register and insure each child. Sessions will take place twice a week on Sundays at 10.30 a.m.and on Thursdays at 5.30 p.m.Jamborees are planned at the Cowichan Rugby Club on April 3rd and at the Nanaimo Rugby Club on April 17th. “I started playing rugby when I was ten years old...
by CVKickers | Feb 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
One of the central recommendations coming out of the Kickers Planning Session held on January 22 at the Forbidden Plateau Lodge, was that the club needed to form a variety of Committees that would make recommendations and proposals to the Executive at monthly Executive Meetings. In the intervening month since the Planning Session, some club members have stepped forward to join various Committees, however, if any other club members would like to serve on any Committee, they can contact the Committee Chairperson involved. Here are the Committees: CLUBHOUSE FACILITIES COMMITTEE: Colin Chappell (Chair), Chris Ostertag, Eli Cummins, Andy Eaton, Leigh Burley. COACHING COMMITTEE: Colin Chappell (Chair), Aaron L’Arrivee, Steve Russell, Dan Wales RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF PLAYERS COMMITTEE: Ian Kennedy (Chair), Aimee Burley SPONSORSHIP AND FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE: Dan Wales (Chair), ShariCaudron, Malissa McLauchlan ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE: Greg Merchant (Chair), Lindsay Mallette, Harry Gaines, Ona Thorington, SOCIAL COMMITTEE: Lindsay Mallette (Chair), Andy Eaton, Steve...
by CVKickers | Feb 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
Five members of the Comox Valley Kickers rugby club are on the move this week as they climb into the upper echelons of the rugby world. Last Wednesday, Connor Willis and Ben Marsh traveled to Shawnigan Lake School to play for the Vancouver Island Select team, captained by Willis, which surprisingly defeated the Canada U-17 “B” team, 17-14. Willis, leading his team from the centre position, had a strong game featuring some tackle-breaking, powerhouse runs that set up tries for his outside backs. Marsh, who played for the North Island Tsunami last season, showed well in his first foray into the higher levels of provincial rugby and didn’t look at all out of place playing in company with, and against, Canada’s best in his age group. Because of his strong performance in this game, it is very likely that Willis will win a place on the Canada U-17 team that will tour England this spring. “The Canada coach, Jim Delaney, came over to me after the game and congratulated me for having a good game,” said Willis, who toured with Canada’s U-17 team to California over Christmas. “That has to be a positive sign.” Kyle Smith had been slated to play in Wednesday’s game but instead received a call to pack his bags to travel to Las Vegas this weekend where he will join Kicker club-mate Gavin McLean on the B.C. U-17 Sevens team. The Vanier lads will be competing in the desert in a host of Sevens competitions surrounding the International Rugby Board (IRB) World Sevens series event being held in Las Vegas this weekend. While playing there,...
