Jordaan appointed as Paul Roos’ head coach

Stephan Jordaan will be Paul Roos Gimnasium’s new head coach. Jordaan is not new to the job because he has coached the first team before with Dawie Snyman jr, who is currently is assistant coach for Western Province’s Currie Cup team. 

Jordaan who coached the u16 side last year will replace the vacancy left by Hein Kriek, who left Stellenbosch to join the Pumas in Nelspruit. Frans van Niekerk will still be the head of rugby. Lucas Roothman, assistant coach to Kriek last year, will still be the assistant coach responsible for the backs this year.

Paul Roos Gimnasium is in a very fortunate position to also have the expertise of Jacques Hanekom and the full compliment of resources from the Stellenbosch Academy of Sport (SAS) to our disposal. Hanekom has left WP rugby at the end of 2015 and was appointed to head up the coaching division of SAS.

He will act as director coaching and will work very closely with all the other coaches of Paul Roos including Jordaan and Roothman. Hanekom and Jordaan have coached the first team from 1990 untill 2005 when Hanekom was appointed by WP Rugby. Paul Roos welcome back and old friend who knows the ethos of the school and it’s rugby like the palm of his hand.

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Hannes Nienaber covered schools' rugby in South Africa for Volksblad, Beeld, and Rapport for 11 years. He also created the biggest school rugby website in South Africa - School of Rugby - back in 2007. It eventually morphed into Supersport Schools Plus. He still occasionally milks cows.

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