St John's hosts prep festival
St John’s College are looking forward to hosting the 10th edition of the Preparatory Schools Easter Rugby Festival.
The following schools are taking part. Cordwalles Preparatory School (Pietermaritzburg), Orchards Primary School, Woodridge Preparatory School (Port Elizabeth), Clifton Preparatory School (KwaZulu Natal), Waterkloof House Preparatory School (Pretoria), Pridwin Preparatory School, St Benedict’s Preparatory School, St Stithians Boys’ Preparatory School, Maragon, The Ridge School, Virginia Preparatory School (KwaZulu Natal) and Leeuwenhof Academy
We also extend a warm welcome the Kwa-Zulu Natal Development for the first time to the Easter Rugby Festival. This year’s Festival is confident that it will be very successful, displaying some entertaining Preparatory School rugby, played in an atmosphere of sportsmanship and camaraderie.
The Sport Science Institute along with the HPC at the University of Pretoria will be running a coaching clinic for the participating Prep boys. There will be HPC staff, TUKS Varsity Cup players, in addition to a few Bulls players (not on tour) conducting the clinic. This will take place at 14.30 on the afternoon of Thursday 28 March.
This will be the second year that the Prep boys will be involved in the prestigious capping ceremony. This takes place the Wednesday evening (27 March) before the festival kicks-off the following morning, in the Memorial Chapel at St John’s College.
All the coaches, masters and most importantly, the boys, look forward to an exciting long weekend of exciting and pleasurable rugby, played bare-foot on the fields of St John’s College.
By Sean Logan
Fixtures
Maundy Thursday 28 March
Burger Field
08.00: St Stithians v KwaZulu Natal Development
;Mr T Johnson
12.45: St John's v Orchards
;Mr C. Beetge
C Rugby Field
08.00: Clifton v The Ridge
;Mr H. Badenhorst
09.00: St Benedict's v Virginia Prep
;Mr I. Evans
10.00: Cordwalles v Maragon
;Mr M. Hood
11.00: Leeuwenhof v Pridwin
;Mr T. Brown
12.00: Woodridge v WHPS
;Mr D. Evans
14.30: Coaching Clinic
Holy Saturday, 30 March
Burger Field
08.00: St Stithians v Orchards
;Mr T Johnson
12.30: Clifton v St Benedict's
;Mr D. Evans
13.15: Opening Ceremony
C Field
08.00: Cordwalles v Pridwin
;Mr I. Evans
09.00: WHPS v Virginia Prep
;Mr B. Thomas
10.00: KwaZulu Natal Development v Leeuwenhof
;Mr H. Badenohorst
11.00: St John's v Woodridge
;Mr A. Greyvenstein
12.00: Maragon v The Ridge
;Mr M. Hood
Easter Monday 1 April
Burger Field
08.00: WHPS v Cordwalles
;Mr M. Hood
12.45: Pridwin v St Benedict's
;Mr I. Evans
C Field
08.00: St Stithians v Virginia Prep
;Mr T Johnson
09.00: St John's v Clifton
;Mr D. Evans
10.00: The Ridge v Woodridge
;Mr B. Thomas
11.00: KwaZulu Natal Development v Orchards
;Mr T Johnson
12.00: Leeuwenhof v Maragon
;Mr H. Badenohorst