No. 7, 17 November 2017
Dear
As we've seen some better weather emerge in the capital and a decent summer looks promising, the wheels of the Red Machine keep turning and there is still plenty going on around the club. Our Women's Sevens team have claimed the first silverware of the summer season and our Off-season Training programme kicked off at Evans Bay this week. This is the latest from Marist St Pats...
The 2017 Marist St Pats Annual Report has been released ahead of the Annual General Meeting on 30 November. It is now available to download...
>>>
Marist St Pats has won the Women's competition in the annual Ambassador's Sevens series, taking home the Eleanor Roosevelt Trophy...
>>>
Six Marist St Pats players have been named in the Wellington mens representative Sevens squad ahead of as they start their preparations for the Central Regional Qualifier tournament on 9 December...
>>>
Eight-time Jubilee Cup winner and MSP Life Member
Murray Tocker will join Andrew Robinson and Bernie Upton in our Premier coaching team for 2018...
>>>
2012 Jubilee Cup winning captain
Arden David will complete the Premier coaching team where he will continue his focus on defence and developing mental skills...
>>>
Our Off-season strength and conditioning programme kicked off at Evans Bay this week. We're fortunate to have the services of our new Strength and Conditioning Coach
Max Symes who has recently completed an internship with the Highlanders. All new and returning players along with College leavers are welcome...
>>>
Marist St Pats has an exciting new coaching team for our Under 21 programme for 2018. This Sunday we are inviting all players who would like to learn more about Marist St Pats to our Evans Bay Gymnasium to chat to the coaches and find out why so many players choose MSP as their club...
>>>
In case you missed it:
25 Sept: Naitoa Ah Kuoi named in NZ Secondary Schools
12 Sept: Premier and Colts coaches named for 2018
2 Sept: Women win big at Club Prizegiving
30 Aug: Five in Wellington Pride squad
Around the traps:
It's been great to see
Jeff To'omaga-Allen return to the All Blacks fold over the past couple of months - and even better to see him on the field in the past few weeks... Congratulations to our players who contributed to the Wellington Lions winning the Mitre10 Cup Championship, earning promotion to the Premiership in 2018 (
Vince Sakaria, Ha'amea Ahio, James Tuiatua, Billy Proctor, Andrew Wells, Sam Lousi and Jeff To'omaga Allen)... Wellington Rugby has confirmed further changes to the Premier grade competition with the Jubilee Cup and Hardham Cup competitions to be contested by the Top 7 and Bottom 7 of the Swindale Shield respectively...
Billy Proctor has been included in the New Zealand Under 20s squad in preparation for the 2018 Under 20 World Cup...
Elijah Fonoti toured with the New Zealand Marist Colts in August...
Regan Sword represented New Zealand Marist in their fixture against the Heartland XV earlier this month... Former MSP prop
Donald Brighouse has made his test debut for Manu Samoa on their end of season Northern Hemisphere tour... In mid-October our Women's side hosted, and beat, the Queensland Samoa Womens team at Prince of Wales Park... At the Wellington Club Rugby Awards
Matt Peni was named Wellington Development Player of the Year, while
Billy Proctor was named Best Performing Player in the Wellington Academy... Former Marist St Pats junior players
Nikora Broughton (Hato Paora),
Samson Alaimoana and
Jeremiah Tuiatua (St Patrick's College) who will attend the Hurricanes Regional U17 Coaching Camp in December...
Are you following us social media?
 |
 |
 |
