Saturday, September 27, 2008

Congratulations Rugby Warriors and Club Updates

The Boss would like to extend his heartiest congratulations to the following rugby players for attaining the highest level of individual schoolboy sports honours:
Low Feng Hua - National Colours Award for Rugby
Ng Kian Hao - Zone Colours Award for Rugby
Well done boys. Montfort Rugby is proud of you and may you don the full national rugby jersey in the coming years.

The Boss also would like to extend his congratulations to our senior boys for being the youngest participants to pass the International Rugby Board-Singapore Rugby iRB Level Coaching Level One Course held at Saint Andrew's Village a few weeks ago. Our senior boys who are now qualified coaches are Low Feng Hua (4A3), Ng Song Yu (4A3) and Pan Chao (5A2). We look forward to their expertise in the forwards and backline coaching next year.

The Boss also would like to inform all boys that we are now in the process of getting a new female teacher-in-charge for rugby to replace Mr Toh who will be leaving us at the end of the year. The new teacher's identity will be revealed at the first post-exam training session on 9th Oct.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

CCA Stand-Down (Sept 8 - Oct 8)

Rugby in Montfort will take a break for a month with effect from Sept 8.

We will resume rugby training on Oct 9 at 2.30pm for all players (Sec 1 to Sec 3).

In the mean-time please start to revise for your Final-Year Examinations which is expected to start in the final week of September.

Although there is no rugby training, players are welcome to keep their fitness levels by either playing some touch rugby or do weights at the school gym on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Remember, a healthy mind starts with a healthy body.

See you guys for training on Oct 9 at 2.30pm.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Montfort Rugby Boys and Singapore Rugby (South) Regional Team

Fourteen of our Montfort Rugby boys represented Singapore Rugby (South) in the just concluded Standard Chartered Youth Tournament at CCAB on Tuesday (2nd September) afternoon. They played matches against Singapore Rugby (North) and Singapore Rugby (West).
This tournament is in preparation for next year's Combined Schools U-15/U-16 and National U-15/U-16 rugby teams.
The Montfort Rugby boys who played Singapore Rugby (South) are:
1) Ariel Salim 2A1 (Full Back)
2) Justin Seow 2A3 (Hooker)
3) Leon Lim 2A3 (Flanker/2nd Row)
4) Calvin Lim 2AA (Scrum-Half)
5) Muhd Fardanshah 2AB (Prop)
6) Ahmad Danial 2E4 (Winger)
7) Tang Han Yang 2E4 (Prop)
8) Muhd Nabil 2A3 (Centre)
9) Harish Pandey 2AB (Flanker)
10) Mohd Shamir 1AB (Winger)
11) Kirish 1E4 (Utility Back/LooseForward)
12) Dom Daniel Kumar 1E2 (Scrum Half)
13) Alvin Yap 1A1 (Prop)
14) Lewis Syn 1E1 (Hooker)
On behalf of Montfort Rugby, the boys would like to thank Mr Ismail from Singapore Rugby for organizing this tournament. It really gave the Montfort boys valuable game time and the chance to interact with boys from other schools in a rugby setting.
Montfort Rugby would also like to thank Mr Jamal (Coach, Singapore Rugby South) for coaching the boys and always encouraging the boys to do their best during the game.
We look forward to more such tournaments as it helps to bring the rugby community closer.