{"id":21105,"date":"2013-07-12T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T21:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/saru-helps-school-rugby-players\/"},"modified":"2013-07-12T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T21:44:10","slug":"saru-helps-school-rugby-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/saru-helps-school-rugby-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Saru helps school rugby players"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jurie Linde. Photo: Gallo Images<\/p>\n

The physical conditioning of school rugby players has improved in the last few years and, although some teams are clearly tactically superior, as far as physical strength and condition are concerned, the gaps between provinces have closed.<\/p>\n

The provincial high performance programme requires each province to identify a squad of at least 30 under-15 players and at least 50 under-17s each year and to begin preparing them for the next year\u2019s Coca-Cola youth weeks \u2013 Craven Academy Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The South African Rugby Union\u2019s<\/a> (Saru) junior high performance manager, Herman Masimla, spoke to Talk Radio 702\u2032s Udo Carelse about the state of the programme.<\/p>\n

Masimla said players are getting bigger every year and there has been noticeable improvement in physical conditioning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been doing research over the past 10 years at Craven Week<\/a> and last week we had under 16s and they look great.\u201d \u2013 Eye Witness News<\/a><\/p>\n

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