Girls invited to try Touch Rugby
'Scrum along girls' is the call from the touch rugby Try Touch brigade.
There are still more men than women joining up for the thrd year in successive blowing away the cobwebs for a summer of weekly touch rugby.
The sessions, run by Carmarthenshire sports development officer, Matthew Adams gives players a chance to practice and improve some of the skills needed for Touch.
Groups are split into teams and played a few shortened games against one another other.
Carmarthenshire sports development officer, Matthew Adams Mr Adams said: “It’s great to see Touch starting up again in Llanelli. We are seeing more and more people take up the game. It’s currently mainly men’s teams, but we’re trying to encourage more women to either join mixed teams or form women-only teams.”
Althought the league was initial set up and run by thye county sports development unit, it has just been passed on to new WRU participation officer, Daryl Richards.
The WRU has appointed 14 regional officers who will be running adults social Touch Rugby leagues across the country with the aim of getting more people off their sofas and on to the playing fields.
Mr Adams saoid: “Touch is a fantastic vehicle for this as it requires very little equipment, burns lots of calories, has a very low chance of injury and is great fun!”
Part of our role with SDU is to help establish more opportunities for more people to become more active, more often. Once we have helped establish a new club or league, it’s about getting other partners or volunteers involved so that it can sustain itself and SDU can back away and take on a more of a supportive role. Daryl will now be coordinating the league in 2012 and we wish him every success
The start of the league is planned for Wednesday, May 16th from 6.30pm at Ysgol y Strade. All enquiries to Daryl Richards.
There are still more men than women joining up for the thrd year in successive blowing away the cobwebs for a summer of weekly touch rugby.
The sessions, run by Carmarthenshire sports development officer, Matthew Adams gives players a chance to practice and improve some of the skills needed for Touch.
Groups are split into teams and played a few shortened games against one another other.
Carmarthenshire sports development officer, Matthew Adams Mr Adams said: “It’s great to see Touch starting up again in Llanelli. We are seeing more and more people take up the game. It’s currently mainly men’s teams, but we’re trying to encourage more women to either join mixed teams or form women-only teams.”
Althought the league was initial set up and run by thye county sports development unit, it has just been passed on to new WRU participation officer, Daryl Richards.
The WRU has appointed 14 regional officers who will be running adults social Touch Rugby leagues across the country with the aim of getting more people off their sofas and on to the playing fields.
Mr Adams saoid: “Touch is a fantastic vehicle for this as it requires very little equipment, burns lots of calories, has a very low chance of injury and is great fun!”
Part of our role with SDU is to help establish more opportunities for more people to become more active, more often. Once we have helped establish a new club or league, it’s about getting other partners or volunteers involved so that it can sustain itself and SDU can back away and take on a more of a supportive role. Daryl will now be coordinating the league in 2012 and we wish him every success
The start of the league is planned for Wednesday, May 16th from 6.30pm at Ysgol y Strade. All enquiries to Daryl Richards.
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