Issue 7, Term 3, 2014
For all your news on UC Brumbies Rugby Development
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Contents Cover Page
2014 Junior Grand Finals 1
Junior Grand Finals
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Emerging Talent Camps
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Coach Course info
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ACTJRU GRAND FINAL RESULTS
SOUTHERN INLAND JUNIOR GRAND FINALS
Under 18 Black – SEC 40 v 0 CGS Under 18 Gold – SEC 45 v 22 Marist Under 18 Green – Marist 14 v 12 SEC
Under 11 - Cootamundra 17 v 12 Albury Man of the Match: Luke TePairi (Albury) Under 13 - Griffith 62 v 10 Young Man of the Match: Matt Parisotto (Griffith) Under 15 - Griffth 24 v 22 Albury Man of the Match: Zane Hogan (Griffith)
Representative Rugby 4 Pathways Programs
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Girls Club 7’s Competition
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Development Activities
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Upcoming Events
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Contact Details
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SEC & CGS qualified for the Premier U18 Final Under 16 Black – Vikings 27 v 19 SEC Under 16 Gold – Radford 16 v 14 Marist Under 15 Black – Royals 29 v 18 SEC Under 15 Gold – Daramalan 26 v 26 Uni Norths Under 15 Green – Burgmann 15 v 7 SEC Under 14 Black – Marist 38 v 12 SEC Under 14 Gold – Broulee 19 v 12 Marist Under 14 Green – Queanbeyan 46 v 7 Eagles
Under 13 Black – SEC 29 v 14 Marist Under 13 Gold – Trinity 39 v 0 Radford UC Brumbies players Henry Under 13 Green – Broulee 34 v 12 Cooma Speight and Joe Tomane Under 12 Black – Marist 36 v 21 SEC visit St Edmunds College Under 12 Gold – Queanbeyan 17 v 0 Marist Under 12 Green – Jindabyne 14 v 0 SEC COVER PHOTO:
Champions - Griffith U15 team Sunday August 24th saw the Southern Inland Junior Grand Finals at Connolly Park in Wagga. A great day of footy saw Griffith as the dominant club winning 2 of the 3 age groups contested, with Cootamundra grabbing the remaining title for the day. Albury were the unlucky club, narrowly losing 2 of the 3 finals.
Under 11 Black – Marist 27 v 12 Vikings Under 11 Gold – Broulee 12 v 7 Marist Under 11 Green – Queanbeyan 50 v 31 Easts Under 10 Black – Marist 31 v 19 SEC Under 10 Gold – SEC 31 v 12 Royals Under 10 Green – Wests 26 v 17 SEC Under 9 Division 1 – Uni Norths 35 v 5 Royals No1 Under 9 Division 2 – Vikings White 30 v 30 Yass
Champions - Cootamundra U11 team
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Coaching Courses
The following are provisional dates for major 2014/15 coach courses to pencil into your season calendars;
ARU Level 2 Coaching Course 7th - 9th March, 2015
Emerging Talent Camps In the October School holidays Brumbies Rugby launched our new Emerging Talent Week from the 29th September to the 3rd October. The week consisted of 2 camps, firstly the U15/U16/U17 group attended a 3 day camp from the Monday to Wednesday, and then the U13/U14 players attended on the Thursday and Friday of the same week. Each camp contained 70 players, so 140 junior players attending across the week.
ers able to access the Brumbies teams training field and recovery centre as well as sleeping and eating all at the same site. This also enabled the junior players to investigate the gym and Brumbies training centre, and to meet professional playing and coaching staff through the course of the week.
Brumbies HQ Brumbies Advanced Coaching Seminar (Skills Focus, half day) 18th December, 2014 Brumbies HQ
Brumbies Advanced Coaching Seminar (Full Day course) 27th March Brumbies HQ Further information on details and registration will be added to Brumbies website (Community portal) shortly so please keep an eye on the website of you’re interested.
David Pocock passing on his wisdom A highlight of each camp was the appearance of Brumbies squad members who ran position speJordan Smiler assesses players body shape cific training with our players in their respective The purpose of the camp was to help develop play- positional area’s. 14 Brumbies players coached ers, but also to assist with Talent Identification, across the week, including former Wallabies capwhich is particularly important at that time of year tains Stephen Moore, and David Pocock. leading into Junior Gold Cup trials. Ultimately with almost 180 players applying for the camps a tough pre-selection had to take place to narrow each squad down to the selected 70 players.
PATHWAYS TRIALS 11th October Brumbies U20 trials Viking Park 18th October Junior Gold Cup Trials Brumbies HQ 26th October Search for a 7’s Star Brumbies HQ
David Pocock passing on his wisdom Nigel Ahwong with the backs The camps were held at Brumbies new headquarters at the University of Canberra, and players were accommodated at the UC halls of residence. This on site set up worked very well with the play-
The camp concluded with a quadrangular series of matches in each age group with each teams player of the game awarded a match ball. Overall the camp proved hugely successful and we will look to continue the Emerging camps in October of each year, particularly with the linkage to the Junior Gold Cup trials traditionally held in mid October.
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ACT SCHOOLS U12 REPS
Aiden Battisson Aidan Tolich Alex Tollis Caleb De Smet Chris Foley Christian Burridge Connor Ison Connor Bush
Representative Rugby ACT U12 SCHOOLS REPRESENTATIVE TEAM This years ACT Under 12 Schools Rep team made the exciting trip to Adelaide to contest the 2014 Southern States Championships. The championships is contested between the ACT, NSW, South Australia and Victoria state teams. Following a strong training and trial program the team were well prepared for the championships and the performances were testament to the hard work of the playing and management staff.
Conor Robinson Corey Davis Jayden Peckett
Unfortunately NSW again were far too dominant winning 52-5 to claim the title again. NSW have comfortably won every edition of this event so for ACT to again win the Stephen Larkham Shield for Runners Up was a very creditable result, and was the second year in a row of winning this shield. BRUMBIES SCHOOLGIRL’S REP TEAM This year’s Brumbies Schoolgirl’s 15 aside rep team again had 2 representative games. The first match was hosted at St Edmund’s College here in Canberra with the girls playing the Western Sydney Representative team. The Western Sydney side featured a sizeable forward pack and speedy backs and proved too strong beating us 27-15.
Kane Smith Lachlan Davis Lachlan Tindale Liam Tunks Marqus Mack Matthew Nilon Ryan Grocott Tommy Lachlan Tony Alofipo Will Adam Will Hayes
The ACT Schools U12 team before running out In game one at the championships the team faced off against South Australia in oppressive heat. The South Australians fronted with a very strong side, who showed great strength at the breakdown. ACT performed well and the match finished in a 12-12 draw. In the second game ACT faced a sizeable Victorian team, and the match between ACT and Victoria is always a mini final within the tournament. With captain Will Hayes scoring on the buzzer the ACT were ecstatic to steal a 15-14 win. This win meant ACT would face NSW in the last game in what was effectively a grand final for the 2nd year running .
Brumbies Schoolgirls after the NSW game The second game of the program saw our girls bus up to Sydney to face the NSW CHS Representative team. Facing the best of NSW girls is always a tough battle, and so it proved again. Our girls put in a very brave showing, but with injuries from earlier in the program, we struggled as the match went on. Eventually NSW overcame us by 25-10 but it was a very creditable performace from our girls, especially considering they had spent 4 hours on the bus before the match, as well as the player shortage through the injuries against Western Sydney girls.
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U17 WINNERS In the Under 17 division all 5 teams had their moments throughout the 5 week competition, but in the end it was the Uni Norths Owls U17 girls who took the honours, the medallions, and the silverware winning the U17 Grand Final. The Tuggeranong Vikings U17 team won the Plate Final to claim their own piece of silverware.
Girls Club Sevens Competition 2014 saw the exciting introduction of a new girls regular rugby competition. This took the form of 7 aside rugby and catered for 2 age groups, the U14 girls and the U17 girls. Alongside this competition women’s games were also played with the local senior women's clubs getting involved.
girls respective schools do not participate in these gala days it as very difficult for teenage girls to get any rugby and we feel the new club 7’s competition helps to fill this void.
Ben Mowen & Jarrad Butler visit Vikings juniors
Action from the U17 girls competition The idea of the competition was to enable teenage girls a real opportunity to play in a structured multi week competition. Prior to starting this competition girls in the 13 to 17 year age group really had no regular rugby opportunities. Uni Norths U17’s - Champs U14 WINNERS In the girls U14 division the final was a hotly contested but it was the country girls from Jindabyne U14’s who claimed the championship. Uni Norths claimed the U14 Plate Championshsip.
ACTRRA referee officiates a well packed scrum The competition kicked off on Sunday 31st August and ran for 5 consecutive Sundays culminating in the finals on Sunday 28th September with competition winners presented with trophies and medals. With a completely new program, it is always difficult to estimate how much interest a project will get, but pleasingly we ended up with over 150 participants in the 3 divisions (women’s, U17, & U14) and 13 teams in total. The following clubs entered team(s) in the various divisions - Tuggeranong Vikings, Uni Norths Owls, Canberra Royals, Jindabyne Bushpigs, Queanbeyan Whites, Barbarians, and also teams from Caroline
The comp saw good player numbers & crowds
U14 Champs - Jindabyne
Whilst girls 12 and under can play in junior teams with boys, and girls 17 and over can be signed off to play women's rugby, the only rugby opportunities for the 13-17 year old girls had previously been to participate in our one off High School 7’s and 10’s gala days during the year. Ultimately if the
Jindabyne women’s & girls teams pose together
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SOUTHERN INLAND ACTIVITIES
Development activities in the Southern Inland area revolved around the support of Junior club rugby leading into the last few rounds and finals of the SIJRU competition. Also school clinics continued through the term 3 period with a particular focus on recruiting participants to the Budding Brumbies program.
Development Activities CANBERRA ACTIVITIES
SOUTH COAST / MONARO ACTIVITIES
Term 3 saw a number of Brumby Jack Attack school clinic’s delivered, particularly in the lead in to the Budding Brumbies program in November. Further school visits by Development staff occurred at schools as requested, and Brumby Jack was always an integral part of the visits.
Term 3 saw many clinics conducted within schools across the Southern NSW area. The highlights from term 3 were the Batemans Bay Primary School Gala day featuring 10 teams. The carnival was won by St Bernard’s who took out both Year 3/4 and year 5/6 divisions. In the High School age groups the inaugural Monaro Tri-Schools Trophy was held. An exciting number of teams (16) participated in this 15 aside regular rugby competition. The trophy was awarded based on the school winning the most age group divisions and this was Monaro High School.
Weetangera enjoy a Brumby Jack Attack clinic College 7’s Carnival - NRC Curtain-Raiser The October school holidays saw the opportunity given to 4 ACT Colleges to participate in a quadrangular 7’s carnival as a curtain-raiser to the UC Vikings NRC match at Viking Park on Thursday 2nd October. St Edmund’s College, Radford College, Daramalan College and Erindale College all participated with St Edmund’s defeating Radford College in the Final. CATHY FREEMAN FOUNDATION CAMP
BrumbyJack at Weetangera
Staff pose at Floriade with the Brumbies inflatable FLORIADE During Floriade Brumbies staff again attended the flower show over 2 days. We were able to set up our passing inflatable in the kids corner with many children attending to have a go at passing the ball through the holes. Posters and membership information was handed out to all participants
On the 1st September the Brumbies hosted a group of indigenous students from Palm Island as part of the Cathy Freeman foundation. Brumbies development staff teamed up with Canberra Raiders development staff to deliver a clinic to the kids at the Brumbies High Performance field at UC, and each child received a number of Brumbies and Group shot with the Palm Island kids Raiders giveaways.
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Resources Coach Education Smart Rugby Coaching Kids Foundation Level 2 South Coast Monaro Junior Marlins South Coast JRU Facebook
Upcoming Events in 2014 BUDDING BRUMBIES
BONANZA DAY
Budding Brumbies takes place for the second year running with 11 venues hosting Budding Brumbies centres. This year the program has expanded to include Southern NSW towns Batemans Bay, Goulburn, Wagga and Albury.
On the 5th week of the Budding Brumbies program this year, all participants will be invited to attend a Bonanza day at Brumbies Headquarters from 5.30pm to 6.30pm. Brumbies players, Development staff and Membership staff will be present to interact with the kids, and the players can sign autographs and take photo’s with the Budding Brumbies participants.
SIRU SIRU Juniors In the Media
Brumby Jack always a hit at Budding Brumbies
UC BRUMBIES
DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS Tom Beinke South Coast Monaro Region t.beinke@brumbies.com.au 0423 761 461 Jack Burey Southern Inland Region j.burey@brumbies.com.au 0439 473 479 Edan Campbell-O'Brien ACT Region e.campbell-obrien@brumbies.com.au 0411 512 780 Anthea Clarke Female Rugby a.clarke@brumbies.com.au 0413 739 167
Budding Brumbies Registration Form
All Budding Brumbies parents will also be able to purchase merchandise at a 10% discount at the Bonanza day if they wish, and for those wanting to buy a 2015 membership, staff will be available to assist with this.
For more information please sign up by downloading the registration form from Brumbies website in the “Budding Brumbies” section.
Coaching and Pathways Manager Russell Ingram P: 02 6283 8520 E: r.ingram@brumbies.com.au Rugby Development Manager Daniel Hooper W: 02 6283 8518 E: d.hooper@brumbies.com.au
Referee Development Manager Mark Snow P: 02 6283 8541 E: m.snow@brumbies.com.au