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Under the guidance of Robert Jenkins, the Club prospered on the field, finally winning promotion back to the Ontario Senior "A" League in 1992 by winning the Ontario Senior "B" League in 1991 under the captaincy of Rob Lloyd.
Rob was ably assisted by Alan Wilson, Gerry Murray, Kevin Joyce to name a few. Tim Gibson, Rob Lloyd and Geoff Grist represented Ontario during this time. The 1st XV continued in Senior "A" until 1995. As history often goes, a large number of our senior players retired and the Club was unable to sustain the level of play.
The 1st XV now plays in the Toronto Rugby Union "A1" Division. In the last few years, the 1st XV has had stalwart support from Mike Alexander, Peter "Kiwi" Leathley, Geoff Stratton, Dave Spargo, Mike Gorman, Jerry Marriott, Jamie Mistry, James Mead, Mark Greenbank, Matt Freeman, Gil Quesnelle and Craig Hamilton.
Over the years the Club has toured all over North America to Montreal, Maimi, San Francisco, Alburquerque, Chicago, Vancouver, Washington, Pittsburg, Cincinatti, Calgary, Vancouver just to name a few. In addition to touring in North America, the Club has also toured to England in 1981 and, again, in 1985. We have also hosted a large number of touring Clubs: Gloucester, London Scottish, Moseley, Worthing, Heriots, Anti-Assassins, Meralomas, Calgary Irish, Hutcheson/Aloysius, Portobello, Ayr, Bermuda Police and Bermuda.
In 1997, the Club went to Scotland for the first time. Our first game on Scottish soil was against Iain Greig's, Ronald Donaldson's and Norm Donaldson's old club, Dalziel R.F.C. It was a delight to have Ronald Donaldson present for the game!!! This was also the first time that our Women played overseas with games against Worthing R.F.C., Wasps, West of Scotland.
1991 would be the last year when the Club would only have one 1st XV. The Club - under Tony Cunningham's presidency and with the direction of Bill Fritz, Rob Thompson and Alan Geddis - started a women's section in1992.
Alan Hawes took over the coaching reins of the women's section in 1997. In the years that he has coached the Club, our Women have won the Ontario League Championship in 1998, 1999 and 2001; the Ontario Cup Championship in 1999 and 2000 and we have represented Ontario in the Vanbots Cup {a thank you to Keith Gillam} - a match inaugurated in 1998 between the winners of the Ontario League and the Quebec League - in each of its' first four years. The Club won the Cup in 1998 and 1999.
In the 90's the Club had a number of international honours:
1993 - Bob McArthur becomes the first Club member to referee a rugby international - Wales vs USA
The following women represented Canada at various age levels:
Canada U19 - Leigh Nevermann {captain}, Dallas Sambolec, Tracy Eisses and Joan Hazel;
Canada U23 - Dallas Sambolec, Leigh Nevermann and Joan Hazel;
Canada - Maureen MacMahon - the most capped player in the Club with 16 caps todate, Moira Shiels, Heather Hunt - one of the "Original 8", Anne Marie Fleming, Araba "Roo"Chintoh.
The Club is also proud of two of its' players who went on to play for Scotland and the British Lions, David Sole (1978) and Gordon Bulloch (1994).
