Artificial pitches – will Western Cape high schools consider them?
Picture from of the Windhoek Gim facebook page.
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Bad news for Junior Commonwealth games Sevens hopefuls
The Junior Commonwealth Games takes places in the Bahamas this year. The under-18 Sevens event will be staged from 19 to 23 July 2017. These dates clash with Craven Week which will be hosted by St Stithians in Randburg from 17-22 July.…
Saints Sports Festival 2017 – press release
St Stithians College is delighted to host its 34th Easter sports festival in April. Many of you know this festival as the Easter Sports Festival. St Stithians have decided to refer to the festival as the Saints Sports Festival to include both the Prep schools’ festival and the College festival culminating in a riveting 7 days of sport. …
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11 Gauteng schools ask Hilton College to refrain from “poaching”
Following the meeting of the Gauteng Heads of Boys’ Schools held in November 2016, no fewer than eleven Gauteng high schools were listed on a letter sent as a collective to Hilton College in same month.
The letter expressed concern over the transfer of boys from several Gauteng schools to Hilton College. It emphasised the issue at stake, made mention of what constitutes good values, asked for mutual respect and most importantly requested that Hilton refrains from “poaching” their players.…
Mastercoach Rugby Conference 2017
MasterCoach 2017 is an exciting, practical rugby conference taking place at Noordheuwel High School, Krugersdorp on 9 and 10 February 2017. The conference presents the opportunity to learn from the best and to improve your rugby coaching skills for the upcoming season.
During the conference the focus will be on the basics as well as new developments in modern rugby.…
Western Province Rugby Institute – Class of 2017 intake
On their Facebook page, the WPRI displays the profiles of 39 players making up their Class of 2017 (WPRI Facebook – Class of 2017)…
55 Bulls u19 contracted players for 2017
The Bulls recently announced their under-19 new arrivals for 2017.…
SA u20 Junior Springbok Training Camp 2017
85 players have been invited to attend a two-day training camp in Pretoria beginning on Monday 23 January.…
WP premier league boost for TSRF 2017
The 10th edition of the Tony Stoops Rugby Festival takes place at Brackenfell on 01, 03 and 05 April 2017. …
St Benedict’s College Rugby Preview 2017
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St Benedict’s started preseason training in October where our opens attended two field sessions a week and gym sessions coordinated by our strength and conditioning coach Miguel Caldeira to kick start preparations for the 2017 1st XV season.…
DPHS’s high school scholarship recipients
The DPHS success story continues. A few million Rands worth of scholarship money will be invested in these 29 future Class of 2021 students over the next 5 years.…
KZN Sharks Youth Week coaches for 2017 : plenty of changes
All three KZN Sharks u18 Craven Week 2016 coaches have moved on from their respective high school posts and are no longer eligible for reappointment. The ripple-effect is a number of promotions and a few new appointments in the overall KZN Sharks youth week coaching set up for 2017.…
Craven Week Player of the Year 2016
| YEAR | NAME | SCHOOL | PROVINCE | POSITION |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Damian Willemse | Paul Roos | Western Province | Flyhalf |
| 2015 | Ernst van Rhyn | Paarl Gymnasium | Western Province | Flank |
| 2014 | Curwin Bosch | Grey High | Eastern Province | Flyhalf |
| 2013 | Grant Hermanus | Paarl Gymnasium | Western Province | Wing |
| 2012 | Sergeal Petersen | Grey High | Eastern Province | Wing |
| 2011 | Jan Serfontein | Grey College | Free State | Centre |
| 2010 | Johan Goosen | Grey College | Free State | Flyhalf |
| 2009 | Andile Jho | Dale College | Border | Centre |
| 2008 | Sampie Mastriet | HTS Drostdy | Boland | Wing |
Wildeklawer Junior Tournament 2017 – u14, u15, u16 fixtures
The Wildeklawer Junior Tournament 2017 for under-14, under-15 and under-16 teams will again take on a North versus South theme. Diamantveld in Kimberley are the hosts of the event.…
Learning from NZ’s attacking flair
So far on their End Of Year Tour, the All Blacks have added 14 more tries to their tally of 60 for the Southern Hemisphere season. Here’s a slightly outdated yet still outstanding and significant “Analysis: Where have the All Blacks’ 60 tries in 2016 come from?” http://www.the42.ie/analysis-all-blacks-tries-59-2016-3056059-Nov2016/ . It’s interesting stuff brought to you by The42.ie!…
Legendary Bishops coach passes away
Basil Bey, the “legendary Bishops coach that advocated the 15-man tap-kick, no kicking, running rugby at all costs approach plus no numbers on the jerseys because each and every player was meant to fill every position rugby philosophy” has passed away.…
Another first for Helpmekaar – rugby fixtures 2017
Braamfontein Co-ed school Helpmekaar Kollege became the very first Afrikaans school in Johannesburg…
Former Dale & KES coach heads to Jeppe
Carl Spilhaus, one of the better known coaches in schoolboy rugby circles will be the new Jeppe 1st XV coach starting in 2017.…
Framesby to represent SA at SANIX in 2017
Framesby an Afrikaans medium co-ed day student school in Port Elizabeth will our country’s next representatives to taken on the challenge of SANIX in Japan.…
Ex-Glenwood rugby coach lands key post at Pretoria Boys’ High
Nice guys don’t always finish last. Recently replaced Glenwood 1st XV head coach Rudi Dames has bounced back quickly. He has been officially announced as the Pretoria Boys’ High new director of rugby.…
Boland Landbou’s tough 2017 fixture list is out
Apart for the always testing West Province Premier League schedule that includes eagerly anticipated inter-schools against Winelands slash national powerhouses HJS Paarl Boy’s High, Paarl Gymnasium and Paul Roos, the farmers from Boland Landbou will also be out to prove themselves against some of the best schools that Gauteng has to offer – they don’t come much bigger or stronger than EG Jansen, Garsfontein or Monument. If that’s not enough, lets not play down the prospect of taking on the Oakdale Bulls in Riversdale and the resistance of some decent opposition from the Eastern Cape either. Forgetting anyone important? How about Grey College as an opponent somewhere in the middle of all that other top class opposition.…