Ontario Blues


The Ontario Blues are the senior men's representative rugby union 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.

Honours

Canadian Rugby Championship
  • * Champions: '''6'''

Current squad

Squad for the 2018 Canadian Rugby Championship season.
Props
Hookers
Locks
Flankers
No 8
Scrum Halves
Fly Halves
  • Shawn Windsor
  • Kieron Martin
  • Roman Cao-Riquelme
Centres
Wingers
Fullbacks

Notable players

Canada

The following players have represented Canada at full international level.

Games played against international opposition

YearDateOpponentResultScoreTour
200922 August