Where is the Best School Sports Arena in SA?

It is that school field which holds the fondest memories, when as eighth Grader’s we watched in awe as our first team demolished the...

Parents: The Subliminal Power Of Positive Cheering

We have all heard it and even said it before, phrases of encouragement directed towards young athletes with phrases like, “dig a little deeper” or “you have to want it more than they do” or, ideally, “be mentally tough.”  

Where is the Best School Sports Arena? 2016 Edition

There was a tremendous response to last year’s poll to find which school sports field was the best. The REC at Queen’s College took...

Curro Hillcrest’s Future Sport Ambitions

The amount of Co-educational schools in the country that can compete against the traditional monastic schools in the sporting arena can be counted on one hand.

Sports Psychology: A Letter to Parents

Dear Parents of talented athletes

Bech: A SA Schoolboy Coaching Legend

One Michael Brian Bechet needs no introduction in SA schoolboy sporting circles. On and off the hockey Astro there is little that the man, universally know quite simply as “Bech” has not done.

Rugby: The Paul Roos Rugby Philosophy

SA School Sports Magazine spoke to Paul Roos director of rugby Ryno Combrinck and asked the school’s rugby mentor to tell us about their success in winning the Sanix international rugby competition in Japan earlier this season.

The 50 Top Boys Sports Schools of 2017 & The Cost

“You pays your money and you takes your choice,” wrote Mark Twain in 1884 at the end of Chapter 28 of Huckleberry Finn.

The REC Voted As Best Sports Field

It is a field that has been dubbed “The House of Pain” ,holds more than 90 years of memories and has produced seven international...

Top “All-Rounder” Sport Rankings?

  We were interested at trying to find out which boy school’s are amongst the top “all-rounders” in South Africa when it came to school...