Youth Weeks kick off with local flavour
The newly structured CocaCola Youth Rugby Weeks get under way on Monday with the junior tournaments being hosted concurrently in Paarl and the U18 tournaments in Durban.
In the past all the tournaments were hosted at different venues.
The U13 Coca-Cola Craven Week and U16 Coca-Cola Grant Khomo Week will be hosted at Paarl Gymnasium from 4-8 July, and the CocaCola Academy Week and U18 Coca-Cola Craven Week will be hosted between 11 and 16 July at Kearsney College in Durban.
The Learners with Special Education Needs (LSEN) Week, meanwhile, will be hosted at the Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Affies) in Pretoria from 27-30 June.
A number of Grahamstown pupils have made the East- ern Province Country District U18 and EP CD U18 Academy sides.
“The new structure of our Youth Weeks will have several benefits, the biggest of which is that we will be able to ensure that the Mobi-Unit coaches, the national selectors, our High Performance staff and the SA Rugby Academy Coaches will be able to attend all the tournaments,” said SA Rugby CEO Jurie Roux.
Grahamstown pupils who have been selected for the various Eastern Province Rugby Union, youth teams are:
EP Country District U18 Craven Week:
Thembi Mangwana, Olie Losaba, Lutho Nmomyi, Athi Halom, Evan Peters and Siba Mzanywa (Kingswood College); Sazi Sandi (vice-captain), Tim Bloem, Mat Moore (St Andrew’s College).
Stegman van Zyl of Kingswood is an assistant coach.
EP Country District U18 Academy:
Ekhebeleng Ayremenya, Daniel Tiffin (St Andrew’s), Azi Mngcongo (Graeme College).
Dates and venues for the SA Rugby Youth Weeks:
• 27-30 June: LSEN Week – Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Affies), Pretoria
• 4-8 July: U13 Coca-Cola Craven Week / U16 Coca-Cola Grant Khomo Week –Paarl Gymnasium, Paarl
• 11-16 July: Coca-Cola Academy Week / U18 CocaCola Craven Week – Kearsney College, Durban
The Coca-Cola Youth Weeks begin on June 29 with the Under-13 Coca-Cola Craven Week and LSEN (Learners with Special Education Needs) Week respectively, and will be followed by the Under-16 Coca-Cola Grant Khomo Week, the Coca-Cola Academy Week and the Under-18 Coca-Cola Craven Week.