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30.03.2010 - Cultural and coaching exchange helps Guyana rugby progression


In 2005 Dave Morris , head of rugby coach development, established the coaching and cultural exchange to the West Indies as part of the BOOST rugby coach development project. In that first year exchanges were established with Guyana and Jamaica, every year subsequently Loughborough has sent student coaches to Guyana for a period of 4-5 weeks to help develop rugby in the region. Guyana men and women won their respective competitions which meant Guyana men qualified for the IRB Las Vegas Sevens and the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The photo show’s BOOST Charitable Trust founder Robert Houston with the Guyana national coaches who have all been to Loughborough University on the exchange. From Left to right: Robert Houston, Larry Adonis, Sherlock Solomon, Alton Aggard and Clinton Clarke.


At the IRB Las Vegas Sevens Guyana produced a brilliant display against the French, going ahead 12-5 before finally being pegged back to draw 12-12. The scale of their achievement is fully recognised when you compare the official IRB stats. Guyana has just 3 clubs with a total playing population across all ages of 1,307. France have 1734 clubs with a total playing population of 273,084.

Well done Guyana!




24.02.2010 - BOOST Success in Presidents XV awards!

BOOST Coach Academy has been awarded the Presidents XV award for 'more referees'. This award recognises our outstanding referee development project that recruits and trains referees in and around the University.

Thanks must go to Alan Biggs and Paul Freestone, Referee Development Officers in the Midlands area, for all of their help in getting the programme off the ground. Thanks also goes to all of those involved in the refereeing, especially those involved in the organisation of referees and the ELRA course.

We look forward to building on this success!




14.02.2010 - Match day clinics begin with a bang

The first Match day clinic was completed with great success on Saturday 13th February. On the day Tom Hobbs led a two hour session with Loughborough Town U13's squad which was followed by free entry into the National League 2 North fixture, won by the Students. A player meet after the game went down a storm with the U13's getting to meet Loughborough Students and Scotland U20 scrum half Henry Pygos.

One parent said ''The whole day was fantastic from start to finish, my son had been looking forward to it since he first heard about it.''

If your school or club are interested in taking part in one of the match day clinics for Loughborough Students home games then please contact the Rugby Coach Development Officer Alex Laybourne on a.c.laybourne@lboro.ac.uk.



03.11.2009 - Success at Charnwood Sports Awards!

Congratulations go to Rugby Coach Development Officer Alex Laybourne for his success in the recent Charnwood Sports Awards. Alex was awarded the Loughborough University Student Sports Award for his voluntary contribution to Loughborough Students Women’s Rugby Club and Boost Coach Academy.



22.09.2009 - Launch of the New site

Today see's the lauch of our new Boost Coach Acedemy website, we hope you like the new site.

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