Wallaroos selection for former South Darwin

Congratulations to former South Darwin Rugby Union 10’s players, Caroline Vakalahi and Mollie Gray who have been selected in the Australian women’s Wallaroos team for the 2014 World Cup in France.

Both Caroline and Mollie played for Souths in the 2010 Women’s NTRU 10’s season and are currently playing with the Australian Services Rugby Union team. Whilst in Darwin they were both working in the Defence Force, but still managed to play a number of games for Souths, with Mollie playing most of the 2010 season and going on to win Best and Fairest in the same year.

Their selection follows solid performances in the 2013 National Women’s Rugby Championship in Sydney.

The South Darwin Women’s Rugby preparations are underway for this season with training to commence this Thursday 27 March, 6pm. Good luck to all our women players and we look forward to watching Souths promising players Ellerslie Hardwicke, and Rebecca Dunbar, both NT representative players.

Junior of the Month Profile: Samson Boynton

This month’s BMD Construction South Darwin Rugby Union Club’s Junior profile is on Samson Boynton from the Under 7’s Bunnies.

Samson Boynton has played with the Bunnies for the past three years. He’s really excited about 2014 as with this season he’ll really get the opportunity to bring together all the skills he’s learnt over the last few seasons. Samson is also ready to help his fellow Bunnies that are new to the team.

Samson is known for his wicked speed, ball handling skills and best of all, his good sportsmanship. South Darwin is very proud to have young Bunnies like Samson on board. He is passionate about playing for his favourite red and green Club!

Samson answers the hard questions in his 30 seconds with Club Junior Committee Member Jack Forrest, take a look:

1. How old were you when you started playing rugby?
3 years old

2. What are your hobbies?
Playing with brother Tru, rugby, bowling, dancing, skate park.

3. Best Rugby Team?
Wallabies

4. Favourite food?
Watermelon

5. Best thing about playing for Souths is…..
Scoring Hundreds of tries

6. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Race Car Driver

7. Recent Achievements
Award at school for being a good role model

Well done Samson – keep on enjoying your Rugby with your Bunnies team mates!

Ladies Night at Rydges Darwin Airport Resort & Hotel

The Ladies of South Darwin Rugby Club including player’s partners, women’s rugby, club volunteers, committee members, friends and sponsors celebrated the upcoming season on Friday night. With sparkling champagne and canapes served by the pool at Rydges Darwin Resort, and many great prizes it provided for a very enjoyable evening.

Thank you to our sponsors Rydges Darwin Airport Resort & Hotel for hosting this event. Also to our photographer Clare-Louise Smith, and prizes donated from Timeout Fitness, The Bookshop in the Mall, Natalie Rowe from Intimo Lingerie and Ella Bache Fannie Bay.

Keep an eye out for the May edition of Resident Magazine for photos from the event.

Zen Quarter renew sponsorship with South Darwin

Zen Quarter has renewed their commitment with South Darwin Rugby Union Club by signing on for the 2014 as a major sponsor.

Zen Quarter’s Darwin Developer Michael Anthony is not only building the city’s newest property site, he is also helping South Darwin Rugby Club to grow and be a professional club with a sustainable future.

”Zen Quarter is investing into the future of Darwin, and we want to invest in sporting clubs like South Darwin Rugby Union Club who play an important role in providing opportunities for those in Darwin to connect to a club. Sporting Clubs are what makes a community and we want to be part of that,” said Michael Anthony, Zen Quarter Developer.

The South Darwin Rugby Club Committee are committed to building a more professional Club and they have made significant inroads recently with securing former Wallaby captain Nathan Sharpe as their Ambassador, further developed their corporate events including the Sponsors (Evening), Old Boys Network Event and Ladies Event at Darwin Rydges Darwin Airport Hotel on Friday 21 March and have built a solid line up of teams for the 2014 season including seniors, women’s and junior teams.

Zen Quarter provides South Darwin Rugby Club additional resources to build the Club on and off the field. “South Darwin Rugby Club welcomes all new members from the juniors, to the women’s to the men’s senior side. We also have many supporters who join our Club because they want to be part of a community. Zen Quarter will help us build our supporter base and we will be launching our new South Darwin Rugby Club membership program in the coming weeks,” said Club President Katie Kelly.

Zen Quarter is in a prime city position facing Francis bay and with water views from all sides of the building. They offer competitively lower prices, low body corporate, high returns and exceptional views and there are now limited apartments remaining. Investors should visitwww.zenquarter.com and send an enquiry to find about the 2 year rental guarantees full furniture bonus.

For further information, please:
Contact:
South Darwin Rugby Club, Katie Kelly 0481 458 640
Michael Anthony, Zen Quarter, TBA
Web: www.southdarwin.com.au
Twitter: twitter.com/southdarwin
Email: rugby@southdarwin.com.au