PROFILES

Colts Coaches 2008

Andrew Bloxsom  1st colts Head Coach

Andrew played most of his rugby as back rower for East’s in the Brisbane competition and joined Randwick Rugby club as a player in 2004 and 2005.

With injury finishing his playing career in 2006 he joined the colt’s 1st grade coaching squad and in 2007 he took on the role of Head coach 1st colts and is the same for the 2008 season.

Andrew at 30 years of age is a young coach on the way up and has a very good eye for detail and is constantly looking to improve his knowledge of the game and the intricacies’ that in capsules a game of rugby  and his ambitions is too coach our 1st grade team.  In 2007 was the NSW 15’s forward coach against  QLD 15’s and has again been appointed in 2008

Mal Stokes 1st grade colt’s assistant coach

Mal started playing rugby for Randwick in 1976 mainly as a centre but has played most backline positions in his 170 game career. Mal brings a wealth of rugby experience and experience of playing in a club environment and the joys of being promoted to a higher team and the pitfalls of being dropped as he has played every grade from 1st grade to 6th grade and has captained 2nd grade and 4th grade.

In 1982 Mal was the recipient of the Don Quinlan trophy.

Mal is a teacher at Trinity College after spending many years teaching at Waverley College and has coached both colleges 1st 15 teams and has coached CAS rep teams.

Mal has been coaching colts on and off since 1996 and this is his 3rd season with Randwick 1st colts.

Ben Rutherford 2nd colts head coach

Ben is part of the new breed of coaches looking at being part of the future at Randwick and with his passion for running rugby and teaching players the skills to play this type of game the quality of coaches coming through is very high.

Ben is an ex Waverley student and has spent many weekends watching the Galloping Greens and is totally focused on ensuring Randwick stay one of the benchmark clubs in Sydney.

Ben joined Colts in 2006 as manager of the 2nd colt’s team and with coaching part of his future he headed to Leinster Rugby club in Ireland and took on a 3 month coaching apprenticeship role with former 1st grade coaches Michael Cheika and David Knox.

In 2007 Ben took on the role of head coach colts 2nd grade and took them to the semi finals and is looking for better results in 2008.

Michael Michaels 2nd colt’s assistant coach

Mick Mick first started playing with Randwick Colts in 1975 as a dashing winger and in the preceding years played grade finishing playing in the mid 80s.

Mick joined the colts coaching squad in 2005 as backs coach of 3rd grade colts and narrowly lost the Grand Final to West Harbour. In 2006 Mick became head coach of the u/19’s which won the premiership from Eastwood and in 2007 again coached the u/19’s to the semi finals and this year has moved up to 2nd colts working with Ben Rutherford.

Mick Lewis 3rd colts Head Coach

 Mick has had a long and varied career at Randwick as a coach and manager. Having spent the last couple of years with grade as the manager of the 3rd grade and 2nd grade teams this year he has seen the light and returned to colts taking on the challenging role of coaching the 3rd grade colts.

Mick brings a lot of experience in coaching having previously coached at Randwick and also Sydney University.

Vlad Savosky 3rd colt’s assistant coach

Vlad joined the club from Newcastle in 2006 and played as a prop but injury in this year’s pre season has stopped him playing this year and has joined us to pass on his experience as a current player to our young 3rd colts players. Vlad being a prop has been invaluable in helping the players with their scrummaging and line outs and has clearly show he a talent for coaching once his playing days are finished.

We are very lucky to have Vlad help us this year and hopefully he will be able to play next season and come back when his playing days are finished and take up from where he finished with Colts.

Carl McDonald Head Trainer

Carl has been the head colt’s trainer since 2004 after spending years with the junior teams.

Carl has been instrumental in ensuring all our colt’s team are fit and in 2006 and 2007 he has been heavily involved with the 1st colts team and fitness has never been a weakness for any of our colts teams.

In 2006 and 2007 Carl was involved as fitness trainer with the Australian 7s and has been able to bring this experience to Colts.

This year Carl has taken on a role as skills coach and has managed to improve many of the skills, mainly catch and pass that are sometimes ignored.

David Cahill Colt’s manager

David has been in charge of the colt’s management team for the past 3 years having spent many years in juniors as club president, registrar, manager and chief bottle wash. With his capable team of Steven Holton, Richard Brincat, Terry O’Shea the management side of running a colt’s organisation is in good hands and game days, registrations, fees, gear hand outs go without a hitch and even the request 15 minutes before a game from a player for a new stud for his boots is not a problem we are very fortunate to have such a capable and well organised group of people looking after the players welfare.