Scottish Futures U18 enjoy a season of training opportunities
The Scottish Futures U18 Programme has enjoyed a selection of fantastic training opportunities last month.
Launched in 2018, it is a performance development programme initially working with home based players with a focus on the tactical decision making, technical skill underpinning performance, physical attributes and performance characteristics that are needed to succeed in a high-performance rugby environment.
The main training weekend for the U18 Programme recently was an opportunity to have a camp alongside players from the Ireland U18 Emerging Talent programme, with the focus of the weekend designed for Scottish players to interact and learn from other female players with similar interests and performance abilities.
The first day of the camp provided players and coaches with an opportunity to learn and develop through a series of workshop delivered by Scott Forrest, the Scottish Rugby Women’s High-Performance Manager & GB Women’s 7s Head Coach.
Players were also provided with a Performance Lifestyle workshop delivered by Chris Volley from sportscotland Institute of Sport. Chris provided players with a critical insight into how to better organise thier life and sport, managing all those additional responsibilities and pressures that come with being a performance focused rugby player.
This was also a chance to provide the Scottish and Irish coaches with performance focused learning workshops to develop their own coaching profile. Allowing them to focus on their personal performance development in a snapshot across a weekend. All staff were incredibly busy ensuring that the players in their charge received an extremely high standard of delivery across the weekend.
To cap the weekend off, the two squads got the opportunity to participate in a 3 x 30 minute training match. This gave them a chance to express their rugby developments from across the year.
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Robert Lavery, Scottish Rugby’s Performance Pathways Manager Girls’ & Women’s Rugby said: “We focussed on developing the foundations of our Futures Programme again this year. After embedding the programme over the past 2 years, we have created a solid base which will allow us to enhance and grow the programme moving forward.”
“The work that has been going on is key to developing the core skills and behaviours to help our Scotland based players as they continue through the Performance Pathway on their international rugby journey.
“Our players and staff have been working at developing the attributes that align to our Women and Girls Performance Curricula. Throughout this year, the players have been provided with a number of opportunities to develop themselves in training camp environments.
“Our staff are getting concentrated time to work on each player’s performance needs aligned to where we think they should be in this stage of their development. Focussing on key skill sets is absolutely crucial to allow them to excel as they move through the pathway towards hopefully being future international rugby players.
“The alignment of all our Performance Pathway Programmes to the Women and Girls Performance Curricula means we are in a fantastic position to track the needs of the player as they transition within our programmes in Scotland.
“All players and staff have worked incredibly hard this season and they should be extremely proud of their achievements thus far.”
Players will have the opportunity to put themselves forward for the Scottish Futures U20 programme when they reach the right age and stage of their development. This progression in the pathway programme will give players the opportunity to develop their skills, game understanding behaviours in a competitive environment which at U20 level may include identified Scottish Qualified players residing outside Scotland.
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Scottish Futures U18 players 2019/2020
Abbe Bruce
Hillhead Jordanhill
Abbie Ledwidge
Stirling County RFC
April McKenzie
Highland RFC
Carla McDonald
Hillhead Jordanhill
Charlotte Boan
East Kilbride RFC
Charlotte Gilmour
Strathallan HS
Cieron Bell
Ayr RFC
Ciorstaidh Ainsworth
Stirling County RFC
Eilidh MacGilvray
Highland RFC Ellee Mills
Stirling County RFC
Ellie Henderson
Annan RFC
Emelia Knights
Biggar RFC
Emma Inglis Casey
Cartha QP RFC
Freya Walker
Stirling County RFC
Gerry Kimm
Biggar RFC
Hannah Bruce
Cartha QP RFC
Hannah Ramsay
Livingston RFC
Holly McIntyre
Ayr RFC
Imogen Woods
East Lothian Girls
Jess Fyfe
Auchterarder
Kaylee Fraser
Biggar RFC
Lexie Steel
Annan RFC
Lily Paterson
Hillhead Jordanhill
Molly Poolman
Howe Of Fife
Morgan Nellies
Caithness RFC
Natasha Logan
Stirling County RFC
Neve Henderson
Stirling County RFC
Orla Proctor
Stirling County RFC
Rachel Philipps
Biggar RFC
Rhea Clarke
Stirling County RFC
Roma Fraser
Auchterarder
Rosa Cobban
Cartha QP RFC
Shannon Pasotti
Caithness RFC
Siobhann McGinley
Hillhead Jordanhill
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