TRU - Markham Rugby Football Club (Retired)
  Friday, September 3, 2010  
 
  Welcome to Markham Irish Canadian Rugby
Markham Irish Canadian Rugby Club provides competitive rugby programs for all age groups. Started in 1980, the club has continued to develop and expand the programs offered to it's members. We now offer four men’s teams as well as Grey Hares and Women’s rugby.

The junior program offers instructional and competitive teams from Under 12 to Under 20 and continues to flourish each year. The program has been so successful that players come from Toronto, Newmarket, Stouffville, Richmond Hill and other locations to play for Markham. Download the Junior Club Brochure.

Please come out and see us. New members are always welcome!

THE NEW MARKHAM IRISH WEB SITE IS UP !!

The new MICRC website is up and running at www.MarkhamIrishRugby.com.

This website will be closing at the end of July. Please update your

bookmarks. Any feedback on the new website is appreciated.

Email Peter Smith with comments and suggestions.
 

 MICRC on-line Calendar

 Most Recent results

Saturday July 24th
Women's 1sts defeated Barbs 36-12 
Women's 2nds defeated Barbs 29-5
U14 @ Inner City ?
U16 lost to Peterborough 38-26
Men's 3rds lost to Stoney Creek 18-0
Men's 2nds defeated Stoney Creek 24-18
Men's 1sts lost to Stoney Creek 22-3

Wednesday July 21st
The U20 men defeated Beach 32-5
The U18 boys defeated Oshawa 51-0
The U18 girls defeated Barrie 45-0 !!
 
























The U12 juniors continue to learn and progress
The coaching staff would like to thank all the parents for bringing their children out to the Oakville Crusaders tournament. We had a fantastic time. It's wonderful to have so many parents committed to the development of their children's future in this great sport!
 In only 4 tournaments the children have grown beyond the goals and expectations of all the coaching staff.
  We played Aurora in game one (a team I might add beat us handily in our first tournament). Our team did not allow even one try to be scored! In game two they faced the Oakville Arrows, who in the previous tournament in Oshawa had no tries scored against them, the Markham Irish U12's managed to score twice and showed tremendous goal line defensive presence. They fell to a 4-2 decision in favour of the Arrows but showed great game. Our last game was against the Beach who we tied.

 For many of these boys and girls this is the first time they have played rugby and in a short 18 practices and 4 tournaments, they have showed excellent understanding and execution of the basics of rugby, even to the extent of performing Loops, crashes, and overlaps to create scoring opportunities.

   Well done U 12's!! 
  Congratulations to Megan and Tabitha !
Congratulations to Megan Gibbs and Tabitha Stavrou for being chosen to represent Canada at the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup taking place in Surrey, England from August 16th to September 5th.  Gibbs will be participating in her second World Cup tournament while Stavrou will be attending her first world championship event.  Both become the first members of the Markham Irish Canadian Rugby Club to represent the club at the highest level.  The Markham Irish is honoured to have two of its members represent us on the world stage.
Saturday July 17th - Markham 30th anniversary
 and Markham/Irish Alumni day
The Men's 1st XV game is being moved to Austin Drive as part of the anniversary / alumni celebrations. 
Tell everyone you know to come out and celebrate !
 
Congratulations to our junior players for making the Ontario Teams:
U18 - Mitch Fenech, Kurt Gibbons, Patrick Laffan*, Jesse Lofthouse*,
Taylor Paris(*), Steven Seccareccia and Jon West
U17 - Andrew Carr and Shane Singh(*)
U16 - Richard Ormrod, John Pappas and Jarell Williams(*)
U15 - Rob Wingrove
U14 - Matthew Carrick, Andrew Coe, Timothy De Kauwe, Devin McQueen, Connor Rose, Brendan Blaikie and Shemar Shorter
See the ORU letter and entire list:

Checkout our growing list of Alumni Supporters !!

Download the updated MICRC Calendar

Men's, U20 and U18 Training Tuesday & Thursday Nights has moved to:
Fletcher's Fields, Markham

Women and are training Tuesday @ Fletcher's and Thursday at Austin Drive
U18 Women train Tuesday nights at Fletcher's

U16 are training Monday & Thursday nights @ Austin

U14 & U12 Have started training Monday & Wednesday nights at 150 Austin Drive

  150 Austin Drive, Markham 

 MICRC is pleased to announce that we have received a $500 grant to make our clubhouse and facilities tobacco free !  Additional information will follow.
Please review the Policy

  


FundTunes, a new and innovative way to support your rugby club !

If you love music and also want to help raise $ for the Markham Rugby Club go to www.fundtunes.com and start buyng music and raising money for MICRC today.  All you have to do is click on the buy and donate tab on the fundtunes website and search for Markham Rugby Club and choose between 5 and 10 song bundles.  For the same price as retail you can purchase digital content from a vast library of music and have a huge portion of the proceeds go back into the club.  Tell your family, friends and supporters to go to FundTunes for their digital music so MICRC can start raising $$ today.  We all purchase music anyhow, we may as well help MICRC while we do it!  If you have any questions or concerns feel free to contact Justin McCartney at info@fundtunes.net.  See you at FundTunes.

Registration Information

 Click on the registration link on the left side navigation for more information about registration.  We are accepting registrations for all divisions and teams.  
 Registration forms and payment can be dropped off at the clubhouse on training nights (Monday through Thursday).  Payment can be made on-line however we still require the original forms with signatures in order to register players with Rugby Canada. Forms can also be dropped off at the registrars home ...
48 Sir Bedevere Place

 Join our new Social Network

Many of our members, past and present, have expressed an interest in being able to network with other members of Markham Irish Canadian Rugby Club. Rather than trying to write new software from scratch, I setup a social network on Ning.com the web address for existing members is http://markhamrugby.ning.com/ to join up, click on this Link to Join

Redesigned Website
We've upgraded our website to better serve you. We hope that you'll find the site easy to navigate and full of useful information both about the Markham Rugby Football Club and rugby in general. Please look at it as version 1.0. Your comments and feedback will help us to develop the site to best meet your needs.
Please send us your feedback.
CLUB UPDATES
Next Games: 
Mon July 26th
u20 v Ont U18 (Austin)
Wed July 28th
U20 defaulted by Scottish
u18 Boys v Brock (Austin)
u18 Girls @ Barrie
Wed August 4th
U20 men v Aurora Barbs (Austin)
u18 Boys v Oshawa (Austin)
u18 Girls @ Oakville Crusaders
Sat August 7th
U14 no game
u16 no game
Men's 4ths no game
Women @ Brampton
Men v Brantford

Better Rugby Coaching
Free rugby skills and drills


We are Looking for International Players:
Markham Irish Rugby is looking for rugby players from the UK or Australia who would like to come and join us for a season.
If you would like more information about the possibilities please contact the Club Coach Don Forster at donforster@hotmail.com or the
Club Captain Pat Conway at clubcaptain@markhamrugbyclub.co
See you in Canada!

20010 Registration
Open registration is available on line.
Click here to register or drop by the clubhouse on a training night to get registered.

Child Fitness Tax Credit
If you need a Child Tax Credit receipt, please contact the registrar.


Created by: Doug Robinson -- Last updated:Jul 25, 2010
 		    

 

 
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