The British Columbia Bears (formerly Pacific Tyee) are the senior men's representative rugby team for

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. They were founded in 2009 to compete in the

Americas Rugby Championship The Americas Rugby Championship, often informally called the Americas' Six Nations, was an annual international rugby tournament between six North and South American nations: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the United States and Uruguay. Origin ...

against other representative teams from Canada, Argentina, and the United States. In their inaugural season, the Bears went undefeated in round robin play against other Canadian teams and only fell to the Argentina Jaguars in the ARC Final. Beginning in 2010 the team, along with the

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, The Rock, and the

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, have participated in the newly formed

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. This offshoot of the Americas Rugby Championship sees these teams once again compete in a round robin schedule.

Home grounds

The Bears do not have a permanent home ground but play at various fields around British Columbia. In their inaugural year the team hosted matches at Brockton Oval in Vancouver and MacDonald Park in Victoria as well as at

Westhills Stadium Starlight Stadium (formerly Westhills Stadium) is a 6,000 seat multi-purpose stadium in Langford, British Columbia, Canada. It is used by Pacific FC of the Canadian Premier League for soccer, by Rugby Canada for various events, and by the Wests ...

(then known as Bear Mountain Stadium) in Langford. The 2010 season saw the Bears play exclusively at Klahanie Park in West Vancouver. 2011 saw the team again play a majority of their home games at Klahanie with the exception of one match being played at the Apple Bowl in Kelowna. For the 2013 season, the Bears played exclusively at Westhills Stadium.

Season records

Americas Rugby Championship

Canadian Rugby Championship

Best in the West

Honours

** Champions: 2 (

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) *

** Champions: 0 ** Runners-up: 1 (

)

Current squad

Squad for the 2018 Canadian Rugby Championship season ''Props'' * Noah Barker * John Braddock *

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* Clint Lemkus *

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''Hookers'' * Paul Ahn * Steven Ng * Blake van Heyningen ''Locks'' * Mike Finnemore * Craig McLaughlin * Shea Wakefield * Cam Polson ''Loose forwards'' * Dustin Dobravsky * Luke Campbell * Jason Hignell *

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* Connor McCann * Oliver Nott * Nathan Stewart ''Half backs'' * James Pitblado * Jorden Sandover-Best ''Fly halves'' *

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''Centres'' * Doug Fraser * Mike Nieuwenhuysen *

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''Wings'' * Jared Douglas * Fraser Hurst * Isaac Kaay * Clayton Meeres ''Full backs'' * Sean Ferguson * Aaron McLelland

Notable players

Canada

The following players have represented

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at full international level. *Ryan Ackerman *Noah Barker *George Barton *Connor Braid *Mike Burak *Luke Campbell *Admir Cejvanovic *Liam Chisholm *Luke Cudmore *Thyssen de Goede *Dustin Dobravsky *Joe Dolesau *Sean Duke *Giuseppe du Toit *Brian Erichsen *Ed Fairhurst *Aaron Flagg *Doug Fraser *Mike Fuailefau *Mitch Gudgeon *Ryan Hamilton *Brodie Henderson *Nathan Hirayama *Jake Ilnicki *Harry Jones *Adam Kleeberger *Anthony Luca *Phil Mack *Jason Marshall *Callum Morrison *Oliver Nott *Cameron Pierce *Pat Riordan *Jorden Sandover-Best *Theo Sauder *David Spicer *Brock Staller *Josh Thiel *Conor Trainor *Sean White *Eric Wilson

Overseas Representatives

The following players have achieved representative honours at an international level. * Andrey Proshin

Games played against international opposition

Head coaching history

References

External links

British Columbia Rugby Union website

CRC Official Website
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