St Stithians Boys’ College had eight rugby players selected to represent the Golden Lions in their U16 to U19 teams. In addition to the Golden Lions selection, Saints had two cross-country boys run a 5km parkrun. Thomas Lee and Liam Keegan placed 1st and 2nd respectively out of 922 participants.
Thomas won the run in 00:18:20, beating Comrades athletes over this distance. Two hours later he scored a goal for the first hockey side, a great way to show his grit and determination in both sports.
The players selected to represent the Golden Lions are:
- Asenathi Nthlabankaye was selected for the Craven week team
- Tawanda Mutuma was selected for the U18 Academy team
- Nicholas Brimacombe was selected for the U19 Welpies team
- JP Bloem was selected for the U19 Welpies team
- Munasche Chaitezwiwas was selected for the Grant Khomo U16A team
- Demos Mbauya was selected for theGrant Khomo U16A team
- Takudzwa Matipano was selected for the U16 Academy team
- Luhan van Aswegen was selected for the U16 Welpies team.