On Monday 16th May, the girls gathered one last time to close the season for Awards night at the club.
We were joined by president Garry Coltherd, chairman Ian Carse and DO John Cairns to present the girls with their awards and celebrate the end of the Season with pizzas provided by Box'd Orkney and games of juice pong.

Awards winners were :

• U14s player of the season - Caylinn Williamson
• U16s player of the season - Aleisha Womack
• U18s player of the season  - Catherine Green (not present on the day!)
• Most improved player - Katherine Baillie
• Most promising new player - Rachel McNeish

Well done to all girls who trained and played this year.
Keep an eye on the club website, social media pages and girls facebook group for summer activities and information about new season start!

T.C.

WHERE: Orkney RFC
WHEN: Friday 20 May, 10:00

Since June 1st 2021, Dylan Russell has been running 35km every single week without fail in an attempt to raise money for The Hearts and Balls Charitable Trust which allows support to be given to rugby players impacted by serious injuries or illness.

Aptly named “The 365 Challenge”, his goal was to do this for an entire year, the equivalent distance of running 5km every single day for 365 days! He’s also decided to go even bigger to finish the challenge and for the final two weeks (19th May - 1st June) he will be attempting 14 half marathons, across all 14 Scottish Health-boards in just 14 days!

Dylan’s is being sponsored on the Orkney leg of this amazing fundraising effort by Kirkjuvagr Gin and those in Orkney this Friday (20th) are welcome to come along to The Rugby Club for 10am to support Dylan as he kicks off the Orkney lap of his journey. If you are feeling fit run/cycle along with him (even if only for a small part).

To read more about the great work that The Hearts & Balls charity do and to donate to Dylan’s Go Fund Me page, visit the link below:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/tyzhs-365-challenge

Keep up the great work Dylan!

Reminder to all sections that a review meeting will take place at the Club on Sunday 8 May at 2pm to discuss all the lessons learned from the past season.

Topics:

1. What has been good/enjoyable/positive etc about the last season? The positives
   
2. What has not been good/enjoyable/positive etc about the last season? The frustrations
   
3. Have we missed anything?
   
4. Are there ideas that you know of both in/out Orkney and/or from other clubs you are involved with, that you think may be worth adopting by ORFC?
   

People can join and stay for as long or as short a period that they like as I know people will have other commitments.

If you cannot get along on the day but want to contribute, please email Ian Carse with anything you’d like to be discussed

The three Orkney Teams who participated in the Women's 7s on the day
Photos - Orkney Photographic