DELTA, B.C. – Trinity Western's women's rugby sevens opened their 2024-25 season by winning the two-day Bula Rugby 7s tournament at John Oliver Park Saturday.
Due to another team pulling out of the event late, the tournament ended up being a two-team head-to-head competition with the Eastman Warriors Rugby Club. The teams ended up playing a five-match series, with TWU winning all five games, earning victories of 45-0, 47-7 and 31-0 scorelines on Friday and 35-10 and 33-5 scoreslines on Saturday.
Ava Van Santen (Langley, B.C.), who recently represented Canada at the U20 Transatlantic Quad Series in Wales, was named the Tournament MVP after amassing 71 points, including 11 tries and eight conversions over TWU's five contests.
The Spartans had seven different try-scorers and nine different point-scorers.
Ava Van Santen (71 points)
11 tries, 8 conversions
Matisan Kelly (26 points)
4 tries, 3 conversions
Hailey Hibbs (22 points)
4 tries, 1 conversion
Kelsa Kempf (22 points)
4 tries, 1 conversion
Michelle Veerman (18 points)
2 tries, 4 conversions
Danika Dool (15 points)
3 tries
Jenna de Greeff (6 points)
3 conversions
Hannah Hibbs (5 points)
1 try
Issy Scholtens (4 points)
2 conversions
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Pose Seumanutafa, TWU Head Coach
"Our goal of the weekend was to keep our own standard high and to have fun. I believe we captured that this weekend. They were hard on themselves when they felt they didn't play to our standards but we kept pushing while having fun doing it."
NEXT UP
TWU won't play a formal competition until the Spartans 7s event Nov. 23 at the Willoughby Community Park Stadium. TWU competes in the Canada West Sevens Series in the spring, with tournaments in Edmonton (Jan. 25-26), Langley (Feb. 7-8) and Victoria (Mar. 1-2).
About Spartan Athletics
As official members of U SPORTS, the Spartans currently compete in 13 sports in the Canada West conference, including women's and men's soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey, cross country and track & field, as well as women's rugby sevens. TWU also competes as an independent team in men's rugby and women's and men's disc golf. Since TWU entered U SPORTS in 1999, the Spartans have won 14 U SPORTS team championships and 34 Canada West team championships.
About Trinity Western University
Recognized for quality, TWU has received seven consecutive A+ rankings for Quality of Teaching and Learning, holds three Canada Research Chairs, and wins national championships in CIS sports. More importantly, lives are changed at TWU through its whole-person, Christ-centred approach to education. With a wide array of undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree-completion programs, TWU equips leaders of character and competence to make a positive impact in the lives of others.
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