Sharks Women to play at Douglas Mitchell this Friday, June 21
The winners of this game will, likely, secure semifinal qualification so a real arm wrestle is expected.
The Southern KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Sub-Union is hosting the Sharks Women and the Border Ladies in an interprovincial fixture at Douglas Mitchell in Uvongo this Friday at 14:00.
The Border Ladies and Sharks Women are currently fourth and fifth, respectively, in the national premier women’s competition, which is currently well into the second round of a double-round format.
Both teams are full of enterprise and play an adventurous brand of rugby.
The Border Ladies are known for their ability to score out of the slimmest opportunity and cannot be given any space, or they will take immediate advantage.
The Sharks play a territorial, space-aligned game with a real commitment to defence that invariably leads to turnover opportunities.
The winners of this game will likely secure semifinal qualification, so a real arm wrestle is expected.
There will be numerous current and former national players on view.
For the Sharks Women, the current Springbok halfback duo of Tayla Kinsey (Sharks captain) and Mary Zulu are symbols of how the women’s game has progressed so positively over the past decade.
The advent of a fully professional competition for the women’s game in South Africa is dawning.
This will lead to a very different and equally diverse competition.
These players will be able to train as elite athletes, and the on-field experience that spectators will witness will be very attractive and extremely competitive.
The Sharks team is comprised of players selected from the current KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union club women’s premier competition in which eight clubs compete.
These clubs, comprising UKZN (Durban and Pietermaritzburg), DUT (Durban and Pietermaritzburg), Harlequins, Jaguars, Varsity College and Richards Bay, travel distances every week to compete against their peers.
Many are students who have come through the development programmes of the KZN Rugby Union and SA Rugby.
Others are exposed to the game for the first time when they join these academic institutions, or open clubs post their high school careers.
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