KZN

Saturday 09 March 2019 marks the official start to the KZN season.…

Preseason at its best – the Vories Night Series will take place on Friday 22 February and Friday 01 March 2019 at Voortrekker High School in Pietermaritzburg. This year the event welcomes Hilton College who will take on Glenwood in a preseason warmup match.…

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Keegan Daniel joins Northwood and Bashford assumes head coaching role – 18 October 2018

Former Sharks captain (and Springbok) Keegan Daniel is the new coaching face at Northwood. His main focus will be the Knights’ 1st XV pack of forwards and word is he will be great for motivating the boys.…

After 12 years at DPHS, KZN’s private school like leading state primary school, Zola Mazwi has decided to spread his wings and take up a post of Recruitment and High Performance at Maritzburg College…

Glenwood have crossed the finish line unbeaten in 2018. A remarkable achievement.

Here’s the list of 1st XV’s since 2007 that have completed an unbeaten (local) season and either finished as SA’s No.1 or challenged for that top spot in their year.…

KZN has wisely enlisted the help of three of the province’s top SBR coaches to take charge of the Sharks age-group teams at the respective national tournaments.…

A concerned KZN parent wrote to me a few weeks ago about his observations of the KZN under-16 Grant Khomo trials process. It was quite interesting. Below I’ve reworded a few of his questions in blue text but tried to keep the original emphasis. In bold red are some of the valued answers I received after doing a follow up with a few of those who have first hand experience of how the process works.…

This will be the first Saturday of 2018 that all the KZN top tier schools are involved in interschools action.…

The visiting Glenwood 1^st XV lived up to their top billing by producing an awesome exhibition of old school running rugby to record a comfortable 37-12 victory on Goldstones. …

Compiled with the help of Maritzburg College and St Charles College…

Compiled with the aid of the match report by Kearsney College:…

It’s a cliché but this really was an advert for schoolboy rugby. It involved non-stop action between two evenly matched teams who pitted different strengths and weaknesses against each other.…

While the other major KZN rugby schools are still involved in preseason activities, Kearsney and Michaelhouse will go at it in the first big match of the KZN regular season, one weekend before the scheduled start.…

The reignition of the Sharks Rugby Day will be a fairly low key affair but well worth it for SBR supporters.
Each match is a 20-minute long chukka.

Old Blog from before the letter above was written.

Hilton has let DHS know that their 1st XV interschools fixture which had been set last year sometime at the annual KZNRU High …

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The Glenwood fixture list as published here Glenwood fixtures link on their website makes for interesting reading. …

Michaelhouse’s Head of Sport Ryno Combrinck, who is widely acknowledged as being one of the best schoolboy rugby coaches in South Africa has been appointed as the Paul Roos Head of Rugby starting in 2018.…