The John Gray Year 10 Girls HSBC Rugby Championships were played at the South Sound Field recently with some 45 girls participating in the full contact matches. Each team played three matches in the full round robin competition and when the dust and rain settled Dolphin were the winners.
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It was a great first hand chance for Cayman Junior Rugby Development Program’s newly recruited former Canadian National Women’s Team coach David Mays to see the raw material with which he has to work with and build a Cayman National Women’s team for the 2007 August Caribbean championships to be played right here in Cayman.
Mays was very happy with the class of athlete performing, stating that he saw no reason why with the level of player Cayman could not compete and beat the best women’s teams in the Caribbean with some hard work and intense preparation.
Mays will get a second chance to see and recruit girls from the John Gray school when he watches the Year 11 girls compete in the HSBC John Gray inter house championships on June 22nd from 9am until 1pm at the South Sound Ground. Mays will further be recruiting for all junior programs as well as the national Academy programs this summer when in Partnership with the Cayman Islands Government, Department of Sports and a generous sponsorship from Maples and Calder he launches the Community Development Program (CDP) which will aim to establish a number of new Rugby programs across the length and breadth of Grand Cayman to ensure that all of the three thousand youths playing rugby in the HSBC schools system will be able to participate out side of school in community programs through the Maples and Calder Community Development Program, on an ongoing annual Rugby season.
The Inter house competitions round out a year of the HSBC in school coaching from both John Gray teachers and Rugby Development officers such as Mays and Fijian Tokatokavanua who ensure the coaching is of world class standard.
Through the 2006/2007 HSBC in school program well over two thousand children and 9 schools have received rugby coaching, participated in inter house and school tournaments and been given an opportunity to play in the community at large.
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