When Canada take to the field this weekend against Scotland in their final Pool B game history will be made.
Lock forward Tyson Beukeboom will make a record breaking 81st appearance for Canada and become her country’s leading caps winner.
The 34-year-old made her debut 12 years and will have taken part in all three of her team’s matches so far at the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup. She overtakes former men’s national team player Aaron Carpenter at the top of the leaderboard.
Head coach Kévin Rouet has coached Beukeboom for the past six years and could only heap praise on the forward after announcing his side for Saturday’s match at Exeter’s Sandy Park Stadium.
“She is a strong leader, even before I started coaching here,” Rouet said.
“She brings experience, she is amazing offensively and defensively and she brings a lot to the team on the field being quite violent on defence, but she’s very smart in offence.
“I love the kind of leader she is. She says what is on her mind and I like that.”
Canada’s 42-0 win over Wales nearly a week ago was far from perfect.
In total the Canucks gave the ball back to their opponents on 27 occasions. Yet they still managed to register a six-try victory over their opponents as their attacking prowess outweighed any individual errors or misplaced efforts.
At full-time in Salford, Rouet expressed his desire to “refine” the errors that he saw in their most recent performance ahead of taking on Scotland in Sandy Park.
“We are just focusing on ourselves,” Rouet said about this week’s training.
“It was fun because we have had a few sessions with the rain, which is good for us at some points just to be able to manage that as you don’t know what can happen.
“Managing the weather, adapting our gameplan to the team we play, that sort of stuff. Small details that you can change during the week.”
Both Canada and their opponents this weekend, Scotland, have already qualified for the knockout rounds.