AT LAST REPORT
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Taking lessons from the gods

Hillside rugby team prepares for New Zealand

By ANDY FRASER

When the senior rugby team of Hillside
secondary school captured the New Zealand
Sheila, emblematic of provincial high school

rugby stipremecy, there was something more at
stake than simply winning the champtonship.

For Hillside, the award
was almost necessary to
ensure them of the right
attitude when they travel to
New Zealand on a rugby
tour this sammer.

The team will be playing
10 games against New
Zealand) opposition, as

tough as theyll find

anywhere in the world, and

the boys belheved they

necded the championship

before they move into the

home of the best rugby tn the 1924 when th. unng All

world Blacks” visite B ¢ and
The New /caland Sticld  sugpested 1 the New

has an interesting /ealand Rugt (enmion that

background going back to they donate a phy to the

province for school rugby
supremacy.

And as an_ intriguing
sidclinc, some membcrs of
this year's edition of the All-
Blacks gave instructions to
the Hillside squad when they
were here in October.

For head coach Brian
Lynch and his assistant Barry
Gosney, the trip to New
Zealand will be a
homecoming, both men
being born in the Islands

The win for Hillside tn the
provincial championships
meant the first time the
trophy had ever been won by
a North Shore school sod of
course the first ever by
Hillside

Lynch who has been
coaching at Hillside for five
years believes that the visit
plus the fact that he has 1?

players relurning neat

season will leave the West
Van school playing from a
position of strength.

With New Zealand rugby
being in the forefront of the
sport, the games and in-
struction the boys will
receive will be a definite
asset to the development of
the sport at the school.

A total of 26 players, two
student managers and the
two coaches will be on the
tour which begins June 29
and ends August 45 at

Rarotonga in the (© ook
Islands.
While on the C ook

Islands, the team will be the
official Canadian
representative at the annual
constitution celebrations
celebrating 15 years of sclf
government, their last

funchon before

returning
home

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