SA Schools Cricket team 2012
Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Thursday, announced the South Africa Schools XI team after the closing ceremony of the Coca-Cola Khaya Majola Under-19 Week in Potchefstroom. …
Month: December 2012
Monnas SA Schools lock joins the Cheetahs
Phillip du Preez, the former Monnas and SA Schools 2011 lock has been snapped up by the Free State after it surfaced that the Bulls were interested in releasing him along with a number of other junior players.…
Is the Bulls junior recruitment policy helping or hurting SA rugby?
It’s fair to say that Heyneke Meyer has not enjoyed the best of seasons. Since taking over as Bok coach this year his reputation has taken a bit of a knock. He’s still held in high regard at Loftus though. Here his past successes as Blue Bulls coach put him in a position to influence how the Bulls go about their business both on and off the field of play to this day. Amongst his ideas implemented was an aggressive junior player recruitment model aimed at ensuring the Bulls remained South Africa’s most successful professional era team. …
Justin Geduld, poetry in motion
Justin Geduld of Western Province is a sight for sore eyes on the rugby field. He is able to rely on a combination of speed, balance, strength on the feet and vision to pick out perfect lines. This has helped him to unhinge even the most well-organised and tightly guarded midfield defensive structures.…
DHS picks a KES coach to be Head of Rugby
Grant Kretzmann, the King Edward VII School (KES) forwards coach and assistant to Carl Spilhaus signed up earlier this week to be DHS’s new Head of Rugby. Kretzmann will be joining former KES headmaster Mike Fennell (DHS CEO) as new arrivals at the Durban school when the first term of 2013 starts.…
Swys de Bruin is joining the Golden Lions
Well it feels like it was just yesterday when Swys de Bruin was being formally introduced as the new Head Coach at Northwood School. However today his Facebook page contained the following message:
…Nog n era verby! Ek het die pos aanvaar by die Leeus as backline coach. Sien baie uit na die nuwe uitdaging!Ek glo die Here sal ons paaie gelyk maak!
Damelin Rugby Night Series 2013
Port Natal will once again host KwaZulu-Natal’s only official school rugby cup competition during the humid month of February. Damelin is the generous sponsor of the competition that features both 1st and 2nd teams.…
KZN coaches on new u14-u16 school scrumming laws
In attempts to increase safety, SARU recently accepted proposed changes to school scrumming for the under-14, under-15 and under-16 age-groups. The main effect is that the hit on the engage has been eliminated. The term to describe the new form of engaging is “passive engagement”.…
Maritzburg College names their new headmaster
Chris Luman has been named as the 15th headmaster of the school. Luman, a Wynberg old boy who taught at both his alma mater and Queens before heading over to New Zealand, will take over the reigns during College’s milestone 150th year.…
College loses a coach to the Sharks Academy UAE
Steve Botha, the Maritzburg College Rugby Administrator and Backline Coach during the 2012 season has been snapped up by the Sharks Academy. Botha will head to the United Arab Emirates shortly to take up a brand new coaching position at one of the high performance academies that the Sharks are in the process of setting up. …
New SARU regulations bring an end to u16s playing 1st XV rugby
ADDENDUM 1 of 2012:
SARU REGULATIONS FOR UNDER‐AGED RUGBY:
SCHOOL RUGBY AGE‐BANDING
The following document is an Addendum to the SARU Regulations for Under‐aged Rugby currently applicable to Adult rugby and are additional Regulations that apply to all School‐level Rugby played under the auspices of the South African Rugby Union, the South African Schools Rugby Executive, and the affiliated fourteen (14) Provincial Rugby Unions.…
Wildeklawer 2013 fixtures
Wildeklawer SuperSkole brings together the Who’s Who of schoolboy rugby in South Africa. It is the one and only tournament that gives spectators the opportunity to watch all six powerhouse schools as well as a number of other top rugby schools that traditionally dominate the game in their respective regions, under one roof. Maritzburg College who will be celebrating their 150th birthday next year, has been given the honour of hosting this prestigious tournament from 02-04 May 2013.…
Festival rugby thoughts from the SharkSmart Doctor
This is extract from an article written earlier this year by Dr Glen Hagemann, Director of the Discovery SharkSmart Programme & President of the South African Sports Medicine Association. The full article can be found here: http://www.sharksmart.co.za/schoolsmart1204.html…
Easter Festivals and player safety
Although I’m a big fan of school rugby Easter festivals, I’ve sometimes felt a little guilty that my entertainment is being provided at a higher than acceptable injury risk to the players participating. Squads are made up of 22 players, there is rotation and games at certain festivals are reduced from 70 to 60 minutes. Nevertheless the best team players are often required to play all three games over just five days. It’s the kind of big ask we would not dream of making of our modern top senior professionals.…
A big 2013 awaits Noord-Kaap
The 2013 season holds several exciting challenges for Noord-Kaap, one of the pillars of Griqualand West high schools rugby.
The most imposing of these will be their keenly-anticipated debut at the prestigious Wildeklawer festival, hosted by Maritzburg College early in May. …
Recruitment: What about the bursary money?
This topic has come up in conversation with the staff from two schools that had each lost a star player this season. It revolved around the repayment of bursary money. There were different views offered by the staff on what should happen.…
Monnas welcomes back Hans Coetzee
Hans Coetzee is set to make his return to Monument High School in Krugersdorp some five years after leaving. The veteran coach who knows Monnas like the back of his hand will take over as Director of Rugby from Namibia bound Wynand Moolman. …
All eyes on DHS
With a very eventful off the field rugby year almost behind them now, DHS’s main up and coming rugby related news story is meant to be and possibly still is the much anticipated public announcement of their new Head of Rugby.…
SA u18 water polo team struggles at world champs
South Africans wanting to get an idea of how the standard of water polo played by schoolboys here compared to those of the world’s leading countries were in for an unpleasant surprise. This score-line might not tell the full truth but provides some perspective: Croatia 25 South Africa 1.…
Paarlbok wins EOYT Superbru
A late charge by PaulRoosPa was not enough to stop Paarl Gim supporter PaarlBok from claiming the title. Paarlbok finished with a 78.95% accuracy rate and in 1152nd place overall (Top 3%). Well done Paarlbok! Enjoy the juice.…
Final school cricket rankings for 2012
Earlier this week the website www.saschoolsports.co.za published their final school cricket rankings for 2012. Wynberg tops the list. Their coach Eric Lefson was recently named as one of the five best school coaches in South Africa by SA Sports Illustrated magazine.…
1st FINA Youth Water Polo Champs begins
South Africa’s under-18 water polo team got off to a losing start in their Group B opener in Perth, Australia. They went down 4-11 to Columbia after leading 3-2 at the half time break. …