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Girls Rugby Awards Night 2022

23/5/2022

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.

U14s player of the season Caylinn Williamson + Garry Coltherd

U16s player of the season Aleisha Womack + John Cairns

U18s player of the season Catherine Green + Gordon Wark

Most improved player Katherine Baillie + Ian Carse

Most promising new player Rachel McNeish + Florence Ungaro

Come & Support Dylan’s Orkney run

19/5/2022

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!

ORFC AGM 2022

16/5/2022

WHEN: 19:00, Wednesday 1 June
WHERE: Orkney RFC Clubrooms

No Proxy Votes will be accepted.

A good turnout of members is required to attend

ORFC Season Review Meeting

5/5/2022

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:

What has been good/enjoyable/positive etc about the last season? The positives
What has not been good/enjoyable/positive etc about the last season? The frustrations
Have we missed anything?
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

Match Reports | Saltire Energy Caledonia Youth Finals 1-5-22

3/5/2022

Saltire Energy Caledonia Youth Shield U16 Final
Orkney RFC U16s v Dundee Rugby
Sheddocksley Sports Centre, Aberdeen
Sunday 1 May 2022

A 21 player squad headed off to Aberdeen on Saturday for the Saltire Energy Caledonia Youth Shield U16 Final against Dundee Rugby. This promised to the toughest game of the season for the squad against a strong conference team.

Orkney RFC U 16 Squad

Double success for Orkney in the 2022 7s

1/5/2022

Orkney 'A' - Winners of the 2022 Men's Tournament.

Back row, from the left: Stephen Kemp, Jon Tait, Garry Coltherd, William Thomson, Chris Guthrie, Matt Jackson, Liam Moar & Norman Sinclair. Front row, from the left: Jon Tait, Alan Brown, Philip Ross, Scott Rendall and Scott Russell.

Orkney Women won their own round robin tournament, while Orkney A beat Orkney B 42-0 in the final of the men’s cup.

The Auld Bulls were victorious in the Bowl against Corsies Commandos & Ale Stars beat Hot Tattie in the Plate final.

PLAYER AWARDS:

Jamie Flett - Grangemouth U23 Player Quaich for young player of the tournament
Matt Jackson - Keith Hutchison Memorial Trophy for best Orkney RFC player of the tournament

Congratulations to all the teams involved and big thanks to all the volunteers & spectators for making the day a success!