Thursday, May 24, 2007
Tag rugby festival benefits children
A massive exercise is underway at the College to prepare for the arrival of hundreds of children who are taking part in a tag rugby festival. This annual event will bring together youngsters from 72 West Devon Primary schools for a day-long knockout competition on 25 May.
This is the 16th year Marjon has hosted the event and staff are now well rehearsed in the logistics of co-ordinating 72 teams playing on 12 specially marked out rugby pitches in the college grounds.
The Marjon event is co-ordinated by Linzi Tynan, the Sports Centre Manager, with help from Diane Smith the Sports Centre Administrator and Mike Carpenter from Sir John Hunt School Sport Coordinators. The order for the day is to have fun and good sportsmanship is actively encouraged among the teams; bad play is not tolerated. Referees are equally provided from Marjon students and the local police.
Each participating school is asked to raise at least £25 from a sponsored rugby event for the Child Victims of Crime (CVC), the registered charity of the Great Britain Police Rugby Section. Last Year £988 was raised for this worthwhile charity. Volunteers from the police force are taught how to coach the tag teams to participate in the regional and national competitions, helping forge good relationships with the schools and their pupils. CVC provide a trophy and medals for the festival and also pay for the winners to attend a national final at Rugby School.
Registration for the event starts at 9.l5am, with the first games kicking off at 10.00. The finals begin at about 3.30pm.
Diane Smith
School Administrator
School of Sports PE & Leisure/Sports Centre
This is the 16th year Marjon has hosted the event and staff are now well rehearsed in the logistics of co-ordinating 72 teams playing on 12 specially marked out rugby pitches in the college grounds.
The Marjon event is co-ordinated by Linzi Tynan, the Sports Centre Manager, with help from Diane Smith the Sports Centre Administrator and Mike Carpenter from Sir John Hunt School Sport Coordinators. The order for the day is to have fun and good sportsmanship is actively encouraged among the teams; bad play is not tolerated. Referees are equally provided from Marjon students and the local police.
Each participating school is asked to raise at least £25 from a sponsored rugby event for the Child Victims of Crime (CVC), the registered charity of the Great Britain Police Rugby Section. Last Year £988 was raised for this worthwhile charity. Volunteers from the police force are taught how to coach the tag teams to participate in the regional and national competitions, helping forge good relationships with the schools and their pupils. CVC provide a trophy and medals for the festival and also pay for the winners to attend a national final at Rugby School.
Registration for the event starts at 9.l5am, with the first games kicking off at 10.00. The finals begin at about 3.30pm.
Diane Smith
School Administrator
School of Sports PE & Leisure/Sports Centre
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