Kids' Rugby in Fredericton: The Loyalists, Flag Rugby, Girls' Teams and What It Costs

Meet the Loyalists: One Club, One Pitch, North Side

Unlike hockey or soccer, kids' rugby in Fredericton is not a choice between organizations. There is one, the Fredericton Loyalists Rugby Football Club, and everything youth-related in the city flows through it. The Loyalists are one of the founding clubs of New Brunswick rugby, have been around long enough to have thrown a sixtieth-anniversary party, and have a real clubhouse and their own grass pitch at 20 Cityview Avenue. That address matters more than it sounds: Cityview is in Nashwaaksis on the north side, tucked off Main Street near the Westmorland Street Bridge, which is a five-minute drive from downtown on a good evening and a fifteen-minute crawl when the bridge traffic is doing its thing. South-side families should plan around it; north-side families should count themselves lucky.

The club runs a senior men's side in the Rugby NB league, a senior women's side, and a youth arm that goes by Fredericton Loyalists Youth Rugby on Facebook. That Facebook page, not the website, is the live source for registration dates, practice changes and rained-out Saturdays. The club's website is a Square Online storefront that hosts registration links, a U14 page, a U17 page and the Chase the Ace fundraiser, but it is often a step behind the Facebook page. The City of Fredericton's recreation directory lists the club with the email [email protected], and the youth side has used [email protected] and a youth director email in recent years. The clubhouse phone is 506-458-8610.

What the Loyalists are not is a franchise machine. Coaches are volunteers, many of them current or former senior players, and in the last couple of years the youth program has had visits from Canadian internationals: Emma Taylor, a Saracens and Team Canada forward, ran a youth girls' skills session in August 2026, and two Loyalists teenagers, Max Sheers and Cef Ward, were invited to Rugby Canada's U18 National Development Camp in Guelph the same month. For a club this size in a city this size, that is a serious pipeline, and it tells you the youth program is taken seriously by the people who run it.

One more thing to know before you arrive: the club has a long and genuinely moving history with Fredericton's Black community, which found a home at the Loyalists in decades when other doors were closed. CBC has told that story well. If your kid asks why the club feels the way it does, that is part of the answer.

Age Groups and the Birth-Year Rule

Rugby in Canada sorts kids by birth year, not by school grade and not by the December 31 cut-off you may know from hockey. Rugby Canada's 2026 fee chart defines the Minor category as U6 to U12 (birth years 2014 to 2024 for the 2026 season) and the Junior category as U13 to U19 (birth years 2007 to 2013). In practice an "under" label means under that age on January 1 of the season, so a U14 team in 2027 is built from kids born in 2013 and 2014, which is essentially grade 7 and 8. The Loyalists' own 2025 U14 flyer spelled it out the same way: born 2011 and 2012, grades 7 and 8, with grade 6 kids pointed toward flag rugby instead. Rugby Canada's membership year runs May 1 to April 30, which is why summer rugby and the following fall's flag program sit inside the same registration season.

Here is how the ladder looks in Fredericton, combining what the Loyalists actually ran in 2026 with Rugby Canada's national age-grade framework.

Two honest caveats. First, the Loyalists have not posted the exact birth-year bands for U17 for 2027, and clubs in the Maritimes sometimes flex those bands by a year to make a team viable, so ask before you assume your grade 9 kid is in or out. Second, there is no U18 club team in Fredericton at the moment. A 17-year-old who has aged out of U17 either plays for a Rugby NB provincial side, plays school rugby in the spring, or, with the club's blessing, starts training with the senior men or women. Plenty do.

The Summer Season: U14 and U17, May to August

The heart of the Loyalists' youth program is the summer contact season, which in 2026 ran from a May start to a wrap-up on August 23, followed by a club tour to Dartmouth on September 6. The club fielded a U14 co-ed team, a U17 boys' team and a U17 girls' team. U14 is where tackling really begins in Fredericton (the fall flag program is deliberately non-contact), and the club's own FAQ is refreshingly plain about it: "we teach you all the basics of tackling in rugby and various other full contact situations," and "all skill levels welcome." You do not need a kid who has played before. Most of the U14 group every year has not.

Practices are set by each team's coaches rather than by a club-wide schedule, so the days and times vary by year and by team. Games in 2025 kicked off at 5 p.m. at the Cityview pitch, and the U14 side also travelled: in August 2026 the U14s went to CN Field in Moncton for a leg of a sevens series against the other New Brunswick clubs. Expect a few road trips a summer, mostly to Moncton and Saint John, occasionally into Nova Scotia. Carpooling is how the club makes that work, and the club runs raffles and a Chase the Ace to subsidize travel, which is why you will be asked to sell a few $10 tickets.

Registration for the summer season has historically opened in the spring. The 2025 U14 flyer, which the club got into middle schools including George Street in April 2025, listed a May start and a QR code to the club's online registration. All rugby registration in Canada moved to Rugby Canada's PlayHQ platform for 2026, replacing the old Sportlomo system, so the Loyalists' registration page now lives on PlayHQ. You create a parent account, add your child, pick the Loyalists program, and the Rugby Canada and Rugby NB fees are collected at the same time. The club had not posted 2027 summer dates or fees when we checked in late September 2026; based on the last two years, watch for a March or April announcement on the youth Facebook page.

The other thing to know: numbers are small enough that every kid plays. A U14 co-ed team in Fredericton is often one squad of twenty-odd kids, not a tiered house league with tryouts, and the coaches would rather teach a nervous first-timer than cut anyone. If the club has a problem, it is usually finding enough players, not turning them away.

Fall Flag Rugby: The No-Tackling Way In

If your kid is younger than 12, or you are not ready to sign a 13-year-old up for tackling, fall flag rugby is the program you want. The Loyalists run it as a short Saturday block in September and October at the Cityview pitch. In 2026 the dates were September 12, 19 and 26 and October 3, 17 and 24 (skipping Thanksgiving weekend), for five divisions: 6 and under, 8 and under, 10 and under (new in 2026), 12 and under, and 14 and under. Registration was announced for late August, got delayed, and opened on September 2. If you are reading this in a future September and the page has gone quiet, that is a delay rather than a cancellation; the program has run every fall for years.

Flag rugby is exactly what it sounds like. Every player wears a belt with two flags, and a "tackle" is pulling one off. Under Rugby Canada's age-grade laws, U7 and U8 play 4 v 4 on a 20 by 15 metre patch or 6 v 6 on 25 by 20, games run no more than 20 minutes, and no child plays more than 60 minutes in a day. U9 and U10 go up to 8 a side on a 35 by 25 metre field with two 15-minute halves, still no kicking and no scrums. The point is running, passing backwards, evasion and the shape of the game, taught through drills that feel like tag. It is very close to the Rookie Rugby program Rugby Canada uses in schools, and if your kid has done a Rookie Rugby unit in gym class they will recognize it instantly.

Two practical notes. The fall block is short and cheap by design, and it is the best low-commitment way to find out whether a kid who liked rugby in gym class actually wants to play it. And the 14U flag division exists partly so that summer contact players have something to do in September and partly as a soft landing for grade 6 to 8 kids who are curious but not ready for tackling. There is no shame in a 13-year-old spending a fall in flag before a summer in contact; the coaches would call that the right order.

The 2026 fall flag fee was not published on any page we could read (it sits behind the PlayHQ login), so budget for the Rugby Canada minor non-contact membership of $30 plus whatever the club and Rugby NB add, and check the youth Facebook page for the number. If your child is in a program shorter than 12 weeks, Rugby Canada also has a $10 "12-week non-contact" membership category that clubs can use for exactly this kind of short block.

Rookie Rugby, Rugby NB and the Provincial Pathway

Above the club sits Rugby NB, formally the New Brunswick Rugby Union, which runs the senior leagues, the youth competitions between clubs, and the Spruce provincial teams. For a parent, Rugby NB matters in three ways: it is the second line on your registration bill, it is who runs the Rookie Rugby program that gets rugby into schools, and it is the door to everything above club level.

Rookie Rugby is Rugby Canada's non-contact, flag-based introduction for kids 12 and under, delivered mostly through schools and community programs rather than through a registration you sign up for. Rugby NB's development officer has delivered dozens of Rookie Rugby sessions to K to 8 classes in the province and started indoor youth sessions in Fredericton focused on footwork and ball handling, and the Loyalists reported a substantial jump in U14 and U17 interest and in flag numbers once that school work started. If your kid comes home talking about a rugby unit in gym, that was Rookie Rugby, and the fall flag program is the natural next step. There is no separate Rookie Rugby league in Fredericton; the club's flag divisions are the community version.

The Spruce provincial teams are the competitive path. For 2026 Rugby NB listed U15 boys' and girls' sides, U17 boys and girls, U19 boys and girls, a U18 sevens team and senior teams, all registered as "NB Spruce" through PlayHQ. Tryouts run in the spring (Rugby NB announced on Facebook that tryouts were "just around the corner" when it opened 2026 registration on the new system) and the teams play through the summer, peaking at the Atlantic Rugby Championship in August against Nova Scotia, PEI and Newfoundland and Labrador. Newfoundland hosted in 2026, and Team NB came home with silver in U19 men, U17 women and U15 women, and bronze in U18 women, U16 men and U15 men. Rugby NB hosted the U15 and U17 Atlantic championships itself in 2025, so the tournament comes to New Brunswick on rotation.

Beyond Atlantic level, the ladder goes to an Atlantic combined team at the U19 Canadian Rugby Championship (Ontario hosted July 19 to 26, 2026, and an Atlantic side played in both the men's and women's draws), to Rugby Canada's U18 national development camps, and to the Canada Summer Games, where rugby sevens is the format and New Brunswick placed sixth and eighth in 2025. Fredericton kids are on that ladder right now: two Loyalists were at the U18 national camp in Guelph in August 2026. Rugby NB also runs a winter regional academy in Saint John at the SJ Fieldhouse ($40 for four sessions in December 2025) and has run indoor sessions in Fredericton in past winters; ask the Loyalists whether a Fredericton indoor block is running in a given winter, because it has not been consistent.

Girls' Rugby: Genuinely Strong Here

If you have a daughter who is athletic, aggressive in the good way and bored of being told to be smaller, rugby in New Brunswick is one of the best-kept secrets in youth sport. Girls' and women's rugby is not a side project in this province. The Loyalists fielded a full U17 girls' team in 2026 (it won a radio station's team-of-the-week award and a pizza party in August, which is the kind of thing that matters at 16), the U14 team is co-ed by design, and the club ran a dedicated youth girls' skills session with a Canadian international the same month. Rugby NB fields Spruce girls' teams at U15, U17 and U19 plus a senior women's side, and the union's women's teams took two of the province's three silver medals at the 2026 Atlantic championship.

The province has a habit of producing national-team women. When Canada played England in the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup final, two New Brunswickers were in the squad: Olivia DeMerchant from Woodstock and Maya Montiel from Dieppe, both front-row forwards. The Loyalists screened the final at the clubhouse and ran youth programming around it, and a club coach, Alison Aiton, was quoted talking about the momentum in the girls' game. For a young player, that is the whole pathway made visible: Loyalists U14, Loyalists U17, Spruce, Atlantic championship, and then a national jersey belongs to someone from a town of ten thousand people up the river.

Practically, how does a girl start? Under 12, the fall flag divisions are mixed and nobody thinks twice. U14 is co-ed contact, and girls and boys tackle each other in practice and in games, which is normal at that age in rugby and something the coaches manage carefully around size mismatches. From U17 the teams split by gender, and from U15 the provincial program does too. At high school, NBIAA girls' rugby is a fifteens competition with its own provincial championship, so there is a school team waiting at grade 9 or 10 as well. There is no separate girls' registration or extra fee; you register on PlayHQ like anyone else and the club sorts the rosters.

One thing worth saying plainly: rugby has a culture of positions for every body type. The girl who is tall and lean plays in the back line; the girl who is solid and strong is a prop and is, in this sport, a star. Parents of daughters who have bounced off soccer and basketball for exactly that reason tend to find rugby a relief.

Contact by Age, Concussion Rules and What the Coaches Are Actually Doing

This is the section most parents are really here for, so here is the framework without the spin. Rugby Canada publishes national age-grade law variations, revised in 2023, that every provincial union and club is supposed to follow, and they build contact in steps rather than flipping a switch.

• U7 to U10: no contact. Flag rugby only. Small teams, small fields, short games, no kicking, no scrums, no lineouts. A tackle is a pulled flag and the ball carrier gets three steps of momentum.
• U11 and U12: the transition band. Up to 9 a side on a field no bigger than 60 by 35 metres. Tackling is introduced, and "all tackles must occur below the waist" on penalty of a sanction. Scrums are uncontested (the team that had the ball keeps it) and lineouts are two-person and uncontested. No contact to the head or neck. Games are capped at 40 minutes and a child cannot play more than 70 minutes in a day. In Fredericton this band is still played as flag in the fall program; the Loyalists do not run an U12 contact team.
• U13 and U14: full contact, modified. Either 13-a-side or sevens. Tackles "around or below the waist," with anything between armpit and waist managed by the referee as a reminder to go lower. Scrums have three in the front row and there is "to be no push"; only the hooker contests the ball. Lineouts are five-person and contested, but with no lifting. Games are capped at 50 minutes and 80 minutes of play in a day. This is what the Loyalists' U14 team plays.
• U15 and up: World Rugby laws with age-grade tweaks and a 90-minute daily cap. This is U17 and the Spruce teams.

On concussion, Rugby Canada's policy (updated April 2025) is stricter than most sports parents have dealt with, and the Loyalists are bound by it as a member club. Any suspected concussion means immediate removal from play, and the player does not come back that day. Return to sport is a six-stage graduated protocol with a minimum of 24 hours per stage: symptom-limited activity, light aerobic exercise, sport-specific drills, non-contact team drills, full-contact practice with medical clearance, and only then a game. Clearance has to come from a physician or nurse practitioner, using a Rugby Canada medical clearance letter, not a note. The policy notes that children's symptoms can persist for up to four weeks, and World Rugby's community-game guidance sets a minimum stand-down of 21 days from the day of injury. Parents of players under 18 are required to review the concussion resources and sign a Concussion Code of Conduct as part of registration, and coaches must do the same. In other words, the days of "shake it off" are over on paper, and in our experience the Loyalists' youth coaches take it seriously in practice too.

Rugby Canada has also been rolling out the Blue Card, a referee-issued card that removes a player with a suspected concussion and locks them out of further games until medically cleared. Ontario piloted it and other provinces have been able to adopt it since 2024. We could not confirm from any Rugby NB page whether New Brunswick competitions use the Blue Card formally; ask the club, and assume the removal rule applies regardless.

What you will actually see at a U14 practice: a lot of technique. Tackling is taught from the knees up, then walking, then at pace, with an obsessive focus on head position ("cheek to cheek," head behind or beside the ball carrier, never in front). Rugby Canada's TackleSmart and World Rugby's Rugby Ready modules are what the coaches are trained on. No sport with tackling is risk-free, and this guide will not pretend otherwise. But rugby's advantage over some other collision sports is that the technique is the whole point, the tackle height rules are strict and enforced from the first day, and nobody wears a helmet that tempts them to lead with their head.

Sevens vs Fifteens, High School Rugby, and Where to Watch

Your kid will hear "sevens" and "fifteens" thrown around, and they are different enough to matter. Fifteens is the classic game: 15 a side on a full pitch, two 40-minute halves at senior level, scrums and lineouts, and a place for every body type from the 60-kilo winger to the 110-kilo prop. Sevens is 7 a side on the same full pitch, seven-minute halves, played as tournaments with several short games in a day, and it rewards speed and fitness above everything. Sevens is the Olympic and Canada Games format. In Fredericton, the youth summer is a mix: the U14s play both (their August trip to Moncton was a sevens leg), U17 and the Atlantic championship are mostly fifteens, Rugby NB runs a dedicated U18 sevens team, and Rugby Canada's U13 and U14 law variations exist in both a 7s and a 13s version for that reason. A young player does not have to choose; they play whatever the club is entering that week.

High school rugby is a spring sport in the NBIAA, played as fifteens from late April into early June with provincial finals in the first week of June (the 2025 finals were scheduled for June 6). There are boys' and girls' AAA divisions and a boys' AA division. Fredericton High School fields both, and hosted the 2024 AAA boys' final, where the Black Kats lost 52 to 7 to Saint John High; the 2024 girls' final went to Riverview over Moncton High 17 to 15, which tells you the girls' game in this province is competitive and Moncton-heavy. We could not verify from any public page which teams Leo Hayes and Oromocto High fielded in 2026, and the NBIAA's public championship page only listed 2024 results when we checked, so treat school rugby as a question for the athletics office in March. The important thing for a club parent is timing: school rugby runs April to June, the Loyalists' summer season starts in May, and the two overlap by a month. Most kids do both and the club coaches expect it.

Where to watch. Fredericton is a university town, which means free live rugby every fall. The UNB Reds women (the Ironmaidens, a club team more than 25 years old) play in the ACAA from September to mid-November, roughly a game a week, with practices Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5 p.m. The UNB Ironmen, the men's club, play a Maritime university league and New Brunswick senior sides at College Field, September to November, with practices Mondays and Wednesdays. St. Thomas runs a men's rugby club through Tommies recreation and has had a women's team; the fixtures are posted by STU athletics, not by the club. Add the Loyalists' senior men's league games at Cityview on summer weekends (the Rugby NB men's A and B seasons wrap in late August) and a curious 10-year-old can see a full season of real rugby for the cost of a lawn chair. For a family that wants to understand the game before signing up, one Saturday at Cityview watching the seniors is worth more than any YouTube explainer.

Gear: Mouthguard, Boots, and Not Much Else

Rugby is one of the cheapest team sports to equip, and the list is short. The Loyalists' own FAQ says it in one line: "the only mandatory equipment is a mouth guard." Everything else is optional or supplied.

• Mouthguard (mandatory). Get one, keep a spare in the bag, and replace it when it is chewed through or the teeth have moved. A boil-and-bite from any sports store is fine for a first season; a dentist-made one fits better and is worth it once a kid is committed. World Rugby strongly recommends the custom kind and cites a 47 per cent drop in dental injury claims where mouthguards became compulsory. A kid without a mouthguard will be kept off the field, full stop.
• Boots (recommended, not required). Soccer cleats with moulded plastic studs are what the club suggests, with one rule: no toe stud. Football boots often have one and are not allowed. Rugby-specific boots exist but a growing kid does not need them. Metal studs are legal under World Rugby specs (maximum 21 millimetres, no sharp edges) but are unusual and unnecessary at youth level in Fredericton. For fall flag, sneakers on dry grass are fine.
• Shorts and a t-shirt. Flag belts are supplied for the flag program. Game jerseys are club-owned and handed out on match days for the summer teams. Rugby shorts without pockets are a nice-to-have for contact play because pockets snag fingers.
• Scrum cap and shoulder pads (optional). A padded headguard protects ears and scalp from cuts and cauliflower ear, which is why forwards like them. It does not prevent concussion, and World Rugby is blunt that there is no evidence it does. Thin foam shoulder pads reduce bruising and are legal if World Rugby approved; most kids skip them.
• Water bottle, and for girls, a sports bra. There is no pelvic protector convention in rugby the way there is in hockey; some boys wear a cup, most do not.

Budget for a first season is realistic at well under $100 in gear if your kid already owns soccer cleats, and under $150 if they do not. There is no gear swap tradition at the club because there is so little gear to swap, but used cleats turn up constantly on Facebook Marketplace in August when the soccer season ends, which is exactly when you need them.

What It Costs and Where the Help Is

Rugby is, by a wide margin, the cheapest contact team sport in this city, and the honest reason is that the Loyalists have chosen not to charge much for the youth program. Your bill has up to three lines: Rugby Canada's national membership (which is mostly insurance), Rugby NB's provincial portion, and the club fee. For the 2025 U14 summer season, the club's FAQ answered "what is the cost?" with "there is no cost associated with the program itself," plus a Rugby Canada registration and insurance charge of roughly $80. That is the entire price of a four-month season with games and travel across the Maritimes, which is a fraction of what hockey or even competitive soccer runs.

The national portion for 2026 is published on Rugby Canada's fee chart: $30 for a Minor (U6 to U12) non-contact flag membership, $40 for U10 to U12 "intro to contact," $49.50 for a Junior (U13 to U19) non-contact membership, $82.50 for Junior "intro to contact" at 13 to U15, and $116.05 for a full Junior contact membership at U14 to U19. There is also a $10 category for programs of 12 weeks or less, which is the natural fit for the fall flag block, and a $49.50 off-season membership for winter training. Those numbers include Rugby Canada's accident insurance, which is why they are not negotiable. Rugby NB adds its own fee on top and the Loyalists add theirs; neither the provincial portion nor the club's 2026 youth fees were posted on a page we could read (they show up inside PlayHQ once you start a registration), so budget somewhere between $100 and $200 all-in for a summer contact season and well under $100 for fall flag, and treat those as estimates rather than quotes. The 2027 fees had not been set when we checked.

The add-ons are modest. Travel to Moncton and Saint John is carpooled and partly raffle-funded. The Dartmouth tour in September 2026 was subsidized by a $10-a-ticket raffle. Spruce provincial teams cost more, because tryouts, camps, uniforms and a trip to the Atlantic championship are real money; Rugby NB posts those fees at tryout time and they were not public when we looked.

Financial help is real and it works. KidSport New Brunswick gives up to $400 per child per calendar year toward registration fees (Sport NB's page says registration and equipment), assessed on household income through the Canada Child Benefit or a Notice of Assessment, with application deadlines of January 30, March 1, June 1 and August 1 and a 30-day turnaround. The grant goes straight to the club. Canadian Tire Jumpstart covers up to $300 per child per year for ages 4 to 18 toward fees and equipment, based on the low-income cut-off, for any program at least five weeks long with a session a week, and the 2026 intake is open with applications ideally in before the program starts. Both can be used in the same year, and a full Loyalists season plus cleats and a mouthguard fits inside either one on its own. Beyond that, ask the club. A rugby club that charges nothing for its U14 program is not going to turn a kid away over a Rugby Canada fee, and the youth director email is the place to say so quietly.

The Registration Calendar, Month by Month

Rugby's year runs opposite to most of the sports it competes with for your kid's time, which is either a headache or a gift depending on your family. Here is the shape of it, built from what the Loyalists and Rugby NB actually did in 2025 and 2026. Where 2027 dates were not posted when we checked, we say so.

• January to March. Rugby NB opens its Level 1 coaching courses (registration opened in January 2026, with a hybrid Zoom-plus-field format), which matters if you are a parent thinking of helping out. The Saint John regional academy runs indoor sessions through the winter; ask the Loyalists whether Fredericton has an indoor block, because it has not run every year. KidSport deadline January 30 and March 1. If your kid wants a Spruce provincial team, this is when to tell the club so you hear about tryouts.
• March to April. Loyalists summer registration announcements. In 2025 the U14 flyer reached middle schools in April with a May start; the club had not posted the 2027 window when we checked, so watch the youth Facebook page from mid-March. Rugby Canada's registration on PlayHQ opens for the May 1 to April 30 membership year. Rugby NB provincial tryouts are announced. NBIAA school rugby starts practising in April.
• May. Summer contact season starts for U14 and U17. School rugby overlaps through the first week of June.
• June. NBIAA provincial finals in the first week of June. KidSport deadline June 1. Club season in full swing, first travel games.
• July. Spruce provincial team camps and games. U19 Canadian Rugby Championship (Ontario, July 19 to 26 in 2026). Watch for any Rugby NB summer camp announcements; the province ran its first youth camps in Fredericton and Saint John in 2021 and we could not confirm a 2026 camp from any page we read, so ask.
• August. Atlantic Rugby Championship for the Spruce U15 to U19 teams (mid-August in 2026). U18 national development camp. Loyalists sevens legs and season wrap-up around the third week (August 23 in 2026). KidSport deadline August 1. Fall flag registration is announced in the last week of August; in 2026 it slipped to September 2.
• September to October. Fall flag rugby, six Saturdays for 6U to 14U (September 12 to October 24 in 2026). Club tour for the summer teams (Dartmouth, September 6 in 2026). UNB and STU rugby starts, free to watch. The Loyalists' Chase the Ace and raffle season, which funds the youth travel.
• November to December. Quiet. Rugby NB's awards banquet and year-in-review in December (2025's was sold out and celebrated the most athletes ever in a Spruce jersey). Regional academy resumes. Rugby Canada's $49.50 off-season membership covers any winter training from January to April.

The single most useful habit is to follow Fredericton Loyalists Youth Rugby on Facebook and turn on notifications in March and again in the third week of August. The club is small enough that its registration windows are announced in a single post, and small enough that if you miss the post, an email to the club will almost always still get your kid on the field. For how rugby lines up against the rest of the year, see our kids' sports registration calendar, and for the other collision sport in town, kids' football in Fredericton.

A last honest word on the gaps. The Loyalists' website is a storefront that does not show its program pages to search engines, so the three things we could not pin down from any page were the club's own 2026 youth fees (2025 U14 was free beyond Rugby Canada's roughly $80), the exact U17 birth-year band for 2027, and whether a Fredericton indoor winter program or summer camp is running this year. All three are one email away, and we will update this guide when the club posts them.