Stefan Sankala, a PE teacher at St. Joseph’s RC High School in Newport has won the National Teacher of the Year Award in Rugby League from the sport’s governing body, the RFL. Stefan was presented with his award at Wembley Stadium during Saturday’s Carnegie Challenge Cup Final, the day after the St Joseph’s Year 8 …
RFL Chairman Richard Lewis today gave an assurance that the sport’s governing body will do as much as possible to maintain the momentum that has seen thousands of people experience Rugby League in Wales at first hand for the first time in recent years. The decision earlier this week by the Directors of Crusaders to …
Wales Rugby League have linked up with the website, Rugby League Project, to display the official statistics for the Welsh national side. Rugby League Project is a free online database accessible to all. It is an ongoing project that has been created with the intention to store the results, scorers and line-ups from every Rugby …
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Wales Rugby League has rallied behind ambitious plans for sport in Wales, which will radically change the way sporting opportunities are planned, developed and promoted across the country. The Vision, developed by Sport Wales, outlines priorities for sport as well as the big shifts necessary in order to deliver increased participation and improved performance. The …
Cardiff today (Monday) played host to the first of a series of a series of seminars to outline the Host City Selection Process for the Rugby League World Cup in 2013. Towns and cities across the UK will learn from these seminars as to how they can benefit from their involvement in what looks to …
Wales Rugby League have congratulated Ray French for being awarded an MBE for services to Rugby League. French was the BBC’s primary Rugby League commentator between 1982 and 2008 commentating on every Challenge Cup Final during that period, but was also a top player in both rugby codes, turning out for England in the 1961 …
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Dan Clements has been named as the new Head of Performance for Wales Rugby League. His appointment fills the role that Anthony Seibold vacated when he left to return to Australia last month. As Head of Performance, he will be delivering strategic plans for the development of Welsh Rugby League players, managing the whole process …
Wales are officially the joint hosts with England in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup where they will take on the Cook Islands for only the second time. This was determined following the draw today (Tuesday) when the World Cup was officially launched at Manchester’s new MediaCityUK development. The Cook Islands encounter will be a …
Anthony Seibold, the South Wales Scorpions’ head coach and Head of Football for Wales Rugby League, has become only the 23rd current Australian coach to have been granted “Professional Coach Status” within the Australian Strength and Conditioning Professional coaching structure. Being granted the ASCA Professional coach status gives him further recognition and places him within …
Janet Ryder, the Assembly Member for North Wales, will be presenting at the Senedd from 5.00pm Wednesday 23rd June in front of the whole parliament house, talking about rugby league. The topic title is “Hope: What is hope? – well it can probably have a different definition for everyone here”. Synopsis: For those of us …
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