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2025-26 Women's Rugby Roster

Ava Ference

  • Class Junior
  • Position Scrum-Half/Fly-Half
  • Hometown Cobble Hill, B.C.
  • High School Shawnigan Lake School

Biography

Sophomore (2024-25)

2024 NIRA 15s National Champion…2025 NIRA All-Academic Team…Scored a total of 34 points in total in the 15s season (3rd on the team)…Converted 6 kicks in 15s vs. Queens…In 7s, scored 2 tries and made 3 conversions at CRAA 7s (Princeton, Life, Army)…Scored a try at Crimson 7s

First-Year (2023-24)

Contributed to the Crimson’s 15s and 7s National Championship wins…Ivy 15s and 7s Champion…Totaled 3 tries, 2 assists, and 2 conversions in the 15s season…Scored her first conversion of the season against AIC (Sept. 8)...Scored her first career try vs. Queens (Sept. 16)...Earned a hat trick against Princeton (Oct. 14)...Scored a try for Harvard A at Tropical 7s (Mar. 30)...Scored four conversions at Crimson 7s (Apr. 7)...Scored one try and seven conversions at Ivy 7s (Apr. 20)...

Before Harvard

Four-year letter winner in girls' first XV rugby… traveled with 20 teams… captained the U18 North Island Tsunami, the Shawnigan Lake School Girls' rugby, and the Shawnigan Lake School Sports Prefect… recipient of the 2022 Bill Rice Award for Rugby… Named a Top 30 RBC future Olympian in 2022…Shawnigan Lake School Girls' 1st XV rugby MVP… BC Games Tournament MVP… World School sevens tournament all star… U18 Team BC 15's were Western National Champions… Shawnigan Lake School Girls' 1st XV had an undefeated season in 2023… Father Andrew Ference played in the NHL from 1999-2016 and won the Stanley Cup with the Boston Bruins… Mother Krista Ference snowboarded for the first Canadian National Snowboarding team

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24First-Year

    Scrum-Half/Fly-Half
  • 2024-25Sophomore

    Scrum-Half/Fly-Half
  • 2025-26Junior

    Scrum-Half/Fly-Half