Kamloops B.C. – A 12 months faraway from their program sweep of the event, the UBC Thunderbirds return to defend their titles alongside a number of different contenders from throughout the nation on the 2025 Canadian College / School Championship, offered by BDO.
19 males’s groups and 13 ladies’s groups comprising of 150 gamers will make up the sector at Rivershore Golf Hyperlinks in Kamloops, B.C. for the twenty first enjoying of the championship set to unfold June 2 – 6.
The 72-hole occasion options particular person and group competitors, with exemptions into Golf Canada occasions together with every of the 2025 Canadian Males’s and Ladies’s Newbie Championships – awarded to the low male / feminine particular person medalist – in addition to the 2025 Canadian Collegiate Invitationals – awarded to the profitable group from every division.
Following the conclusion of the third spherical, the sector shall be trimmed all the way down to the highest 9 males’s groups and high six ladies’s groups, together with any squad inside 10 photographs of the lead. People inside 10 photographs of the chief will even make the minimize, or any participant throughout the high 10 of the leaderboard.
4 gamers – two males and two ladies – shall be competing within the occasion as people and never signify their post-secondary establishment within the group competitors.
UBC enter the occasion as reigning champions after dominating each the group and particular person occasions in 2024. The Thunderbirds’ male contingent captured their eighth nationwide championship final season whereas the ladies’s aspect added a seventh consecutive victory to their program and seventeenth during the last 20 years. Coach Chris Macdonald has been on the helm of each triumph throughout the 2 groups and shall be vying so as to add a file twenty sixth title to his resume when play wraps up on June 6.
All of UBC’s gamers will return for a title defence in 2025, together with Una Chou of San Diego, Calif. and Dylan MacDonald of Markham, Ont. Each accomplished the Thunderbirds’ sweep by profitable their respective particular person championships final 12 months, with MacDonald securing his in a playoff.
The Thunderbirds can have the luxurious of enjoying of their house province for the fifth time as Rivershore Golf Hyperlinks provides a Canadian College / School Championship to a prestigious internet hosting resume that features each the Canadian Ladies’s and Males’s Newbie Championship in 1997 and 1999 respectively.
“Rivershore is proud so as to add one other Nationwide Championship to our resume of internet hosting. This occasion will make the fifth nationwide championship hosted at Rivershore,” commented Kevin Oates, Govt Skilled at Rivershore Golf Hyperlinks.
Inbuilt 1981, the Robert Trent Jones Sr. design has surpassed 40 years with none main adjustments to its unique architectural design. Enjoying in extra of 5,750 yards and as a par-72, the course procures its carnage by way of all 95 of its strategically positioned bunkers littered alongside the brink of greens and fairways. Water offers an impediment for gamers on a number of holes, together with the South Thompson River squeezing the seventeenth and 18th fairways to play as a disruptor for any last spherical procession.
“Laying in a desert-like setting on the foot of sagebrush-covered hills above the majestic South Thompson River, Rivershore is sincere, truthful, unpretentious and generously bunkered. Water is used sparingly on this very good hyperlinks fashion course,” added Oates.
For extra details about the 2025 Canadian College/School Championship, together with the participant checklist, pairings and leaderboards, click on right here.
Males’s Groups
McMaster Marauders
Calgary Dinos
Victoria Vikes
Fraser Valley Cascades
Alberta Golden Bears
Humber Hawks
Queen’s Gaels
McGill Redbirds
Bishop’s Gaiters
Brock Badgers
UBC Okanagan Warmth
Guelph Gryphons
Windsor Lancers
Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks
Montreal Carabins
UBC Thunderbirds
Carleton Ravens
Waterloo Warriors
Laval Rouge et Or
Ladies’s Groups
Calgary Dinos
Fraser Valley Cascades
Toronto Varsity Blues
Alberta Pandas
Humber Hawks
Bishop’s Gaiters
UBC Okanagan Warmth
Guelph Gryphons
Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks
Queen’s Gaels
Laval Rouge et Or
Victoria Vikes
UBC Thunderbirds
