2019 Rugby Festival Brochure
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With the teams come support staff, relatives, friends and supporters of schoolboy rugby. What an awesome opportunity to enjoy the Easter weekend in the company of rugby players and supporters, in an environment and climate that complements the experience. The Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival has been made Home comforts are provided to all players and possible by the magnificent support provided by management in the form of sponsors’ products and all our sponsors. Africa’s biggest bank, Standard keep-sakes. As a reward to the coaching staff for Bank has continued as the Festival’s title sponsor their commitment to schoolboy rugby we ensure this year. Standard Bank has also been Kearsney’s that the odd celebratory libations are provided too. chosen bank for well over two decades and we are delighted to continue the relationship. The Sharks Kearsney teacher Mouton Badenhorst is the have supported this festival from inception in chairman of the Standard Bank Kearsney Easter 2008 and we are proud to be associated with this Rugby Festival committee which includes many winning brand. Halfway Ford and Hendok continue Kearsney staff, KZN Rugby Union officials and to support as major sponsors, with MTN and others who have worked tirelessly to produce a Coopertires as new first tier sponsors. In addition, festival of which we can all be proud. The Kearsney MTN will be providing free WIFI for the entire Easter Rugby Festival committee is comprised duration of the festival. There are also a number of exclusively of volunteer staff. product sponsors for the festival. Please support our sponsors as they not only offer high quality We thank the schoolboy rugby supporters of products and services but they are also prepared to KwaZulu-Natal and the rest of South Africa for invest in supporting sport at school level. their support of the festival. Key to the success of a festival of this nature is For festival news, fixtures, results and match reports, the attention given to the participating teams. We please visit our website: www.kearsney.com endeavour to provide comfortable, spacious on-site For results, news and action shots, follow us on accommodation to all the teams and management Facebook: KearsneyCollege at no cost to the teams. Taking care of the dietary Twitter: @KearsneyNews 3 needs is Compass Group SA representing a global Instagram: kearsney.college catering company operating in clean, modern on-site dining and kitchen facilities. Medical Enjoy the festival and all the entertainment partners - Busamed, Netcare 911, Marsh and around it. Sharks Medical - provide match day care, including post-match rehabilitation, which is on hand to cater Carpe Diem for any eventuality. EASTER RUGBY FESTIVAL - 2019 FESTIVAL EASTER RUGBY KEARSNEY www.kearsney.com @KearsneyNews (#KERF #goodtogo #sbschoolsfest) KearsneyCollege kearsney.college Message from FUNEKA MONTJANE CEO PERSONAL & BUSINESS BANKING IN SOUTH AFRICA | STANDARD BANK South Africans have two significant passions: education and sport. Combine the two and you have some of South Africa’s leading schools competing against each other, and it is guaranteed that families and sports lovers will pour through the gates to enjoy the day. This devotion to education and sport, and the At Standard Bank, we are dedicated to creating acknowledgement that sport unifies people across ongoing partnerships and helping people negotiate economic and social divides, is what drives Standard life’s milestones by assisting them to prepare for Bank to invest in school sport and the development their futures. These partnerships become important of education - a drive to which we devote millions for young customers as they step from supportive of rand each year. We believe that while sport school surroundings to the tertiary environment promotes the building of relationships both on and where the emphasis is on personal independence off the field, it is education that transforms lives and and commitment to studies. communities. Partnerships and relationships are central parts Most important is assisting people who come from of Standard Bank being sure that our customers, the ‘missing middle’ and struggle to access training regardless of age, are ‘Good to Go’. The promise and tertiary education after completing matric. By embodied in our new campaign is that our customers encouraging people with financial means to assist will always have the products and services available those who need to pay outstanding fees, and those when they are needed. Regardless of whether it’s a looking for support to study, has led the bank to personal loan, foreign exchange for a long-awaited support the Feenix crowd-funding initiative. trip, a home loan or any other solution, we will make sure that they are ’Good to Go’ with the financial R19-million was donated to the platform during assistance needed to help meet their dreams. 2018, from 100 businesses and 917 individual funders. Our best wishes go to all the young sportsmen who are competing. Standard Bank urges you to give of Perhaps the epitome of rugby achievement in this your best for your team. Enjoy the matches, enjoy country was the unforgettable moment in 1995 making new friends and enjoy participating. when Francois Pienaar and Nelson Mandela hoisted 5 the World Cup aloft and brought a jubilant nation to its feet. It is in this tradition that we encourage all players to approach South Africa’s favourite sport. By taking part in this premier event, players have reached the pinnacle in school rugby. It is how they worked as a team, how they accepted victory and defeat, and the respect with which they treat their opponents that will be remembered. EASTER RUGBY FESTIVAL - 2019 FESTIVAL EASTER RUGBY KEARSNEY www.kearsney.com @KearsneyNews (#KERF #goodtogo #sbschoolsfest) KearsneyCollege kearsney.college Message from GARY TEICHMANN CEO | THE SHARKS We at the Cell C Sharks are delighted about our ongoing association with the Standard Bank Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival. The strength, success and reputation of this prestigious festival is evident in the calibre of schools who participate in the tournament annually, and this year is no exception. A stellar group of top rugby schools will be Schoolboy rugby plays an invaluable role in the competing against each other in a tournament development of South Africa’s rugby culture. The that attracts top coaches, talent scouts and fans sport at school level is where the foundation is built from across the country. The involvement of our for key values such as sportsmanship, team work, Sharks Academy means we, at the Cell C Sharks, a strong work ethic, perseverance, respect and keep a keen eye on the players participating at the honour to be taught and embraced. These values tournament and their schools, knowing that rugby resonate with our brand and are what we’re about. in the province stands to benefit significantly, both at present as well as in the future. Best wishes to the organising committee, sponsors, participating schools, coaches, players and everyone Annually, our scouts from The Sharks Academy are else associated with this wonderful tournament. impressed with the high quality of rugby on offer, May the 2019 edition of the festival be another the skills displayed, the competitiveness shown, successful one. and the overall spirit of schoolboy rugby, which is a joy to watch. 7 EASTER RUGBY FESTIVAL - 2019 FESTIVAL EASTER RUGBY KEARSNEY www.kearsney.com @KearsneyNews (#KERF #goodtogo #sbschoolsfest) KearsneyCollege kearsney.college Message from Festival director Mouton Badenhorst (left) with the Reservoir Hills Rhinos Rugby Club’s Andrew Osborn, Deon Naicker and Muhammed MOUTON BADENHORST Bwanali and some of the Boots & Balls kit collected last year. DIRECTOR | 12TH STANDARD BANK KEARSNEY EASTER RUGBY FESTIVAL Rugby is so much more than just a game played between two teams. It teaches us about life and that, with the correct attitude and work ethic, it is truly possible to change lives. As organisers of the Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival we’re well aware that, with the privileges we enjoy as a school and a community, comes a responsibility to the wider community. Our Boots & Balls initiative, of collecting new and good condition second-hand rugby kit and clothing, makes it possible for those After the 2018 Kearsney Easter Rugby Festival, one participating in the festival to make a difference to of the recipients of kit collected was the Reservoir the lives of others and to grow the sport of rugby. Hills Rhinos Rugby Club. After finishing bottom of their group the year before, the kit donated by You’re urged to please leave any new or good the festival spurred on the players, who remained condition used kit in the bright yellow collection unbeaten for the entire 2018 season and were bins strategically positioned at the side of the field. crowned Champions of the CF Flew 5th Division.