Ontario Blues


The Ontario Blues are the senior men's representative rugby team for Ontario. They were founded in 2009 to compete in the Americas Rugby Championship against other representative teams from Canada, Argentina, and the United States. In their inaugural season, the Blues suffered narrow losses against British Columbia and the Wolf Pack before defeating the Rock to advance to the Canadian Final. The Blues would again lose to BC, but defeated the U.S. Selects in the bronze medal match.
In 2010, Rugby Canada changed the format of the Canadian competition of the ARC, introducing the CRC. The four Canadian teams which competed in the ARC stayed the same, but now played in the CRC, with a Canadian Selects team being chosen from CRC players, and that selects team going on to represent Canada at the ARC. The Blues went on to win four straight Canadian Rugby Championships from 2011 to 2014 during a stretch where they were 19 wins and one loss over three seasons. The Blues have since won the MacTier Cup in 2016 and 2018.

Teams

In 2017, Rugby Ontario announced that their entire provincial rugby program would be branded under the name "Ontario Blues", replacing the "Ontario Storm" name which had been used for the women's team. The Ontario Blues name now encompasses all provincial representative teams of Rugby Ontario. This includes age-grade competition, development squads.
The Ontario Arrows are a privately funded elite club, which is closely related to the Blues organization, that is in negotiations to join the professional Major League Rugby for the 2019 season. The club will play exhibition games in 2018 at York Lions Stadium.

Season Records

Americas Rugby Championship

Canadian Rugby Championship

Honours

Squad for the 2018 Canadian Rugby Championship season.

Props
Hookers
Locks
Flankers
No8
Scrum Halves
Fly Halves
Centres
Wingers
Fullbacks
  • Rory McDonnell
  • Mitch Richardson
  • Lucas Hammond

Notable players

Canada

The following players have represented Canada at full international level.

Games played against international opposition

YearDateOpponentResultScoreTour
200922 August Midwest ThunderbirdsWin38-5Pre-season exhibition
200917 October USA SelectsWin27-242009 ARC Bronze medal match
20108 June England CountiesLoss32-262010 Tour of Canada
201010 July Midwest ThunderbirdsWin38-5Pre-season exhibition
20125 May ChileLoss19-17Ontario Blues 2012 South American Tour
20128 May Salta ProvinceWin32-26Ontario Blues 2012 South American Tour
201213 MayWin27-16Ontario Blues 2012 South American Tour
20134 May New York Athletic Club RFCWin38-23Pre-season exhibition
201323 August Life UniversityWin36-20Pre-season exhibition
201611 June England CountiesLoss73-02016 Tour of Canada
201629 August Cork ConstitutionWin12-102016 Tour of Canada
201729 April Old Blue RFCWin43-31Pre-season exhibition
201720 May Glendale RaptorsWin43-25Pre-season exhibition