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Full name | Vancouver Wave Rugby Football Club |
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Union | Rugby Canada Vancouver Rugby Union British Columbia Rugby Union |
Nickname(s) | The Wave |
Founded | Vancouver Rugby Union - Undetermined (Over 100 Years) |
Location | Vancouver, British Columbia |
Ground(s) | Brockton Oval at Stanley Park (Capacity: 5,000) |
Coach(es) | Christiaan Esterhuizen (2021-Present) |
League(s) | RCSL (1998-2008) RCNJC (2009-present) Coastal Cup (2021) |
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The Vancouver Wave are a Canadian rugby union team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The team plays in the Rugby Canada National Junior Championship and draws most of its players from the Vancouver Rugby Union and the British Columbia Rugby Union, one of fourteen Rugby Unions that have rep teams in the RCSL.[1]
The Wave play their "home" games at the Brockton Oval at Stanley Park in Vancouver.
The team played under the name BC Wave for the 2006 and 2007 RCSL seasons, but later switched back to using Vancouver Wave.
On August 1, 2009, the team won their first national championship. When they defeated the Toronto Rebellion 41–21.
On November 13, 2021, the Wave became the first Coastal Cup champions.