South African u18 sevens group announced

By Hannes Nienaber , in Rugby | News , at 2014-02-08 Tags: Sevens Rugby

The South African Rugby Union (SARU) will be fielding a South African Under-18 Sevens team. The team will compete in the African Youth Games on 22 – 31 May 2014 in Gabarone, Botswana.

The training squad features several players from the SA Under-16 High Performance squad from 2013 as well as PJ Toerien and Marco Janse van Vuuren who both played for the SA Schools team last year. Whilst the likes of Jaco Coetzee, Morne Joubert and Luigy van Jaarsveld were all prominent players at the U18 Craven Week.

Paul Roos have the most players in the squad with three, followed by Affies, Garsfontein, Grey College, Glenwood and sevens masters Tygerberg with two each. Some of the players in the squad matriculated last year, but we have still included their schools name.

*Please note that this is not the final team and players from outside this squad can still be in contention. The final team will be announced in March.

SA Under-18 Sevens training squad: Eduan Keyter, Tiaan Schmulian (both Affies), PJ Toerien, Franco Naude (both Garsfontein), Luigy van Jaarsveld (Marlow Landbou), Curwin Bosch (Grey Boys’ High School), Michael Andrade, Alex Jonker (both Grey College), Luwellyn Hein (Louis Botha), Gerhard Holtzhausen (Noord-Kaap), Jaco Coetzee, Morne Joubert (both Glenwood), Xolisa Guma (Maritzburg College), Willem Massyn (Monument), Cyprian Ncomo (HTS Middelburg), Marco Janse van Vuuren (Transvalia), Herschel Jantjies, Edwil van der Merwe, Edrich Venter (all Paul Roos Gimnasium), Keenan Abrahams (Paarl Gimnasium), Ivan Kuntz, Wynand McGlachlyn (both Tygerberg), Adriaan Louw, Grant Williams (both Western Province).

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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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