“I only went to university and had the drive to go there because I wanted to play college football,” recounts the Ridgemont High School grad who grew up in the Hetherington Ottawa Community Housing neighbourhood. The open registration options available to our members is limited to “Social Dues” & “Executive Members”. “Sports can be a huge piece (for youth from challenging backgrounds). The OFSAA TIMEOUT Podcast. CAN 29 v. USA 24 Chula Vista, California FT — 30 December 2019 More Info. Founded in 2003, Rugby Arizona initially provided a program for high school boys rugby. “With Chelsea, here’s a strong female role model from the area who’s competed at a high level, has coached at a high level, and has won at a high level. exit. It’s not the be-all and end-all,” signals Hylland, whose teams also recently added Ottawa Maverick volleyball product Kaly Soro and St. Peter Knights/Ottawa Irish rugby coach Pat Thompson as assistant coaches. Rugby Arizona is organized as a club sport in our local communities to promote participation in rugby as a way for our youth to stay active and healthy, learn teamwork and sportsmanship, and combat community deterioration and juvenile delinquency by following the World Rugby Playing Charter Core Values of Integrity, Passion, Solidarity, Discipline and Respect. We facilitate our youth achieving physical activity and fitness through organizing and participating in regional, national and international amateur rugby competition.Rugby Arizona’s mission is to develop and grow the sport of rugby for all youth within the State of Arizona. Our goals are to provide a safe and fair sporting environment, and to develop youth character by introducing the values of rugby into a team sport experience that will endure for a lifetime.Rugby Arizona is the sanctioned governing body for all age-grade rugby union activities in the state of Arizona under the national jurisdiction of USA Rugby and the global jurisdiction of World Rugby. Founded in 2003, Rugby Arizona initially provided a program for high school boys rugby. In 2011, grade school youth divisions were added and in 2016 a focus was added for high school and grade school girls. “It’s funny. But I think having roots here and connections here, it helps certainly.”A 2000 Vanier Cup champion with uOttawa early in his coaching career, Bellefeuille went on to coach extensively in the Canadian Football League with Saskatchewan, Montreal, Hamilton, Winnipeg and B.C., and also spent time in the U.S. with Omaha of the United Football League and the Texas Spring League.“Those were all professional goals of mine, and my family supported me to do that,” details the past Ontario/Quebec university coach of the year. One of our goals is to be perennial national contenders and that is what we work towards every day.”“‘Coach B’ brings some great experience from his last 20 years with different teams,” highlights Hylland. “So COVID actually provided the opportunity, and such a good opportunity, to come home and be with my family, and come back to my first love where I played, where I coached, where I went to school, where we won a Vanier. “Could others come in … As an assistant coach, the Stittsville native won a national title with McGill in 2014 and an NCAA Div. It’s nice to create that understanding that other young women can strive for that same goal in the future.”Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:After rising to the top in just 3 years during his first run as Gee-Gees head coach, Bellefeuille is now eager to take on the challenge of creating a sustainable university program – tasks that go beyond coaching and play-calling.Chelsea Grills. Rugby Arizona is the sanctioned governing body for all age-grade rugby union activities in the state of Arizona under the national jurisdiction of USA Rugby and the global jurisdiction of World Rugby. “He’s a great leader, he’s a great communicator, and I think he has that ability to really bring people together.”“It’s really nice,” uOttawa athletic director Sue Hylland says. It’s not the be-all and end-all,” signals Hylland, whose teams also recently added Ottawa Maverick volleyball product Kaly Soro and St. Peter Knights/Ottawa Irish rugby coach Pat Thompson as assistant coaches. Grills also coached at the University of Vermont and the Canadian International Hockey Academy in Rockland before joining the Gee-Gees as a full-time assistant in 2017.“If I’d been coaching with the Als, I wouldn’t have even looked at Ottawa U, I wouldn’t have been able to,” recounts Bellefeuille.
“It happens to be by coincidence that we have it. Grills later joined the Ottawa Raiders of the National Women’s Hockey League as a high schooler and remains close to several teammates from that time.“Of course being close to family and friends played a huge part in coming back to Ottawa,” indicates Grills, stating that the Gee-Gees’ values and expectations for sports and school align with hers.