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Former Michaelhouse centre Pat Howard has been called up to the SA Under 20 squad following a number of injury withdrawals. The squad is currently attending a 2-week training camp in Stellenbosch. [...]
Posts tagged with: Craven Week
Howard added to Baby Bok squad
Big things to come: Sharksworld chats to Johan Meyer
It’s that time of year when a hand-picked group of talented schoolboys up and down the country prepare to make their way down to Durban to start their new lives as Sharks Academy students. For big Queens College number 8, Johan Meyer, this is a journey that’s been almost two years in the making and one that he simply can’t wait to get started with. Sharksworld caught up with him for a quick chat. [...]
Six Sharks make Baby Bok cut
SA Under 20 coach Dawie Theron has announced a trimmed-down 33-man squad to take part in a training camp in January, including six members of the Sharks junior structures. In a surprising move, Paul Jordaan has been included as a wing. [...]
U19 team sees SA Schools star included
The U19’s face a lively Lions U19 outfit at Coca Cola Park tomorrow, after suffering a few bad losses over the last few weeks and will be hoping to pick up some momentum going into the second half of the junior Currie Cup season. [...]
KZN Schools: College and Glenwood in action
In various parts of the country including Kwazulu Natal, soccer has replaced rugby as the main third term school activity. From a local standpoint, Maritzburg College and Glenwood are now the last 2 third quarter rugby schools standing. [...]
Brotherly love the way of the Sharks
The Sharks have always been proud of their reputation as a team that has a great sense of “family”, with strong bonds between players forming over a number of years spent together at the Tank. These days, though, more and more of the players coming through the ranks into the senior team have far more authentic family connections. [...]
SA Schools selection for Fisher, Tom
Despite the disappointment of suffering a heavy loss against the Blue Bulls at Craven Week, there was a measure of cheer for the KZN U18 team yesterday as two of their backline stars were rewarded with selection to the South African Schools side. The team, predictably, has a very Grey Kollege and Waterkloof look to it, with the strongest schools in the Free State and Blue Bulls region respectively well represented as always. [...]
Craven Week final day – Pride still at stake
If you are an outsider, unfamiliar with the process, you are forgiven for believing that Craven Week is a thing of the past for all but the Golden Lions and the Free State, who have been chosen to play in the final match of the tournament. [...]
Dell to skipper Sharks under 19s
SA Schools prop Allan Dell has been named captain as Sharks under 19 coach Ryan Strudwick announces an exciting lineup to face the Blue Bulls in their opening match of the ABSA Under 19 season. [...]
Craven Week Day 3 and Day 4
A clear-cut path to Saturday’s unofficial final has already been mapped out for the winners of the Free State vs Blue Bulls clash. [...]
Baby Sharks keep it in the family
The KwzZulu Natal under 18 team recorded a fine, albeit unexpected, 23-21 victory over their fancied Western Province opponents on the second day of the 2011 Craven Week tournament in Kimberley yesterday, with a number of the players involved having strong family links to the Sharks.
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Craven Week kicks off
The 48th edition of Craven Week for under -18 schoolboys begins in Kimberley today. Eighteen South African regions as well as Namibia and Zimbabwe are being represented at the tournament which runs until Saturday. [...]
Kit handover ceremony
Mr Price Sport has extended its existing partnership with schoolboy rugby in the Kwazulu-Natal. During a handover ceremony held at Kearsney College yesterday, the Kwazulu-Natal Under 18 Craven Week team received Maxed branded technical kit from their sponsor. [...]
Contrasts aplenty between juniors and schoolboys
So thanks mainly to an article by dare I say the great Rob Otto of Sharksworld, champion of the cause of Sharks Junior rugby, I get to watch our brand new Sharks under-19 team being put to the test for the first time in 2011. [...]
Reece-Edwards to run on Reece-Edwards
Matthew Reece-Edwards, Kearsney’s gifted 15 year old first choice scrumhalf will visit his father’s old stomping ground this Saturday when his team travels to Durban North to take on the ever-improving Northwood School. The venue for the match was named Reece-Edwards after Matt’s father and Bok fullback Hugh, a stand out rugby player and cricketer at Northlands (now Northwood) in his day. [...]
