NSW Junior Rugby Union
Merry Christmas to our Zones, Districts and Schools,
NSW Juniors held their 2020 AGM on Tuesday night and amongst other discussions elected the NSWJRU Committee for 2021 (below).
One of the key items on the agenda was to officially welcome NSW Schools onto the Board of NSW Juniors as a full affiliate, after NSW Schools voted to accept the invitation we unanimously voted to extend at the 2020 AGM. We really look forward to working closely with NSW Schools and our other club based affiliates to help positively grow the junior game across our state.
The AGM voted to accept the constitutional changes required to include NSW Schools, as well as the reflect the changes in NSW Country Rugby’s governance and to include the role of VP State Championships on the executive.
We welcome some new members to the committee and I am sure that they will add valuable contributions to our game.
I’d also like to specifically thank some of our valued servants of the game that are stepping down from roles within NSW Juniors. Luke McCormack, Stuart Burke, John Papahatzis and Kym Knight have all served on the 2020 committee or as representative of affiliates to the committee, and each one of you has had a major contribution to NSW Juniors over multiple years. Without your efforts was certainly could not have improved our pathways and I’d personally like to than each and every one of you.
It would also be remiss of me not to mention our wonderful sponsors – COVID hit some of them harder than others but their support didn’t waiver and we in turn would like to support them in kind. Genesis Proprietary Trading, Estilo Travel, Rugby 1st, the Rugby Club Foundation and the NSW Positive Rugby Foundation have been fantastic supporters of junior rugby and we could not run all of our showpiece Representative Tournaments and programs without them.
A few of the key folk from these sponsors have also stepped down over the year and I’d like to thank them as well – Nick Scarf (Genesis) & Adrian Skeggs (Rugby 1st), you are both champions.
I’d also like to thank Greg Mumm (NSW Positive Rugby Foundation) for his efforts this year in a tough environment, we have appreciated all your help mate.
Lastly if all Zones and Districts could please send me their updated contact details for the following (name, email and mobile phone) so we can update our contact lists for 2021;
• Zone/District President
• Zone/District Secretary
• Zone/District Rep Coordinator
President – Ben Gregory
VP Commercial – Tony Fisher
VP Representative – Sally Tremlett
VP State Championships – Gary Paton
VP SJRU – Anthony Hunt
VP CRU – Mick Melino
VP NSWSRU – Chuck Ardron
SJRU Delegate – Paul Rathborne
CRU Delegate – Renee Park
NSWSRU Delegate – Craig Howe
🏉 Operations
Secretary – Kerry Brady
Social Media Liaison – TBC
Operations Liaison – Ben Kooyman
🏉 7’s Sub-Committee
Chair – Michael Doyle
SJRU Delegate – TBC
CRU Delegate – TBC
NSWSRU Delegate – Kieran Smith
🏉 Girl’s Sub-Committee
Chair – Andrew Hill
SJRU Delegate – June Manu
CRU Delegate – Michelle Edwards
NSWSRU Delegate – Alex Butt
🏉 State Champs Sub-Committee
SJRU Delegate – Andrew Hutton
CRU Delegate – Renee Park
Independent – George Roper
State Champs venues for 2021 have been confirmed as the same as we planned for 2020.
U10-U11– Tuggerah (Tuggerah Sports Complex - Central Coast Juniors) Jul 3rd-4th
U12– Camden (Camden Rugby Park – Camden Rugby) Jun 12th-14th
U13– Dubbo (Apex Oval - Dubbo Roos) Jun 12th-14th
U14– Orange (Endeavour Field – Orange Emus) Jun 12th-14th
U15– Concord (St Lukes Ovals – West Harbour Juniors) Jun 12th-14th
U16– Narrabeen (North Narrabeen Reserve / Rat Park – Narrabeen Juniors) Jun 12th-14th
U18– Narrabeen (North Narrabeen Reserve / Rat Park – Narrabeen Juniors) Jun 12th-14th
U14 (12 aside) – Hunters Hill (Boronia Park – Hunters Hill Rugby) Jun 12th-14th
U16 (XV’s) - Hunters Hill (Boronia Park – Hunters Hill Rugby) Jun 12th-14th
U18 (XV’s) - Hunters Hill (Boronia Park – Hunters Hill Rugby) Jun 12th-14th
Don’t forget the NSWRU U17 State 7s Champs are on this weekend in Bowral. Should be some great rugby on show. Good luck to all teams competing.
I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Year – it wont be long before we are back in full ‘rugby mode’ – thanks for everything you do for rugby and we will see you next year.
cheers
Ben Gregory
President - NSW Junior Rugby Union
Director - NSW Rugby Board
Website : www.nswjuniors.com.au
Email : nswjuniorrugby@gmail.com