This year we started Rugby a season earlier because the coaches and I agreed that it would be good to have time before the season officially started to get fit and stronger and to teach the basic rules and techniques to the new younger player. After discussing with the coaches and Derrick Quinet, we were able to get two practice sessions on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. I spread the word about Rugby and got other players to recruit more. We managed to get a decent amount of people to join the team at that time and we were successful at getting around 12 people each session. This is a big improvement from the turnout of last season’s Rugby.
I was and am determined to create a strong and large enough team this year so that we could finally compete properly against the other Rugby teams. I wanted to possibly win some matches as well this season. This might then eventually lead to the inclusion of the ISK Rugby team in the Rugby league. At the moment we are still only able to play friendly matches as well as a friendly tournament that we are trying to add more teams to each year. Therefore I spent and spend a lot of time discussing with the coaches on the plan for training sessions and tactics.
My determination and leadership initiative awarded me the captaincy of the team this year. This is a role that I greatly appreciate and enjoy because of the challenge of it. I am determined to make Rugby a bigger sport at ISK and therefore I am motivated to lead the team. I hope that our success as a team will build attention for Rugby at ISK. We have already discussed to introduce Rugby to middle school but it has been harder to do than expected because of the disorganization and misunderstanding between the interested players in middle school and the athletic organizers.
Therefore there are still many aspects we have to work on to develop the Rugby program. However, now that the Rugby season is about to officially start we hope that many more players will join and that we can now start training seriously so that we are fully prepared for our first match in a few weeks.
I will update on the progress of the Rugby season later on.
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