Belfast Met are offering talented players a pathway to senior rugby in Ireland through their Rugby Academy.
The academy is the first of it’s kind for U18 students combining full time academic study and rugby training concentrating on to strength and conditioning, technical and tactical game understanding.
The Sports Science Academic Staff at the college are providing full support with regards to the strength and conditioning, sports psychology as well as team and individual video analysis.
A competitive fixture list is currently being developed with a variety of schools for the academy which hopes to recruit players with transferable skills from the likes of GAA, soccer and general athletics who would be interested in playing high level playing rugby at a high level.
The Academy hopes to develop strong links with local clubs providing an alternative route for talented youngsters to get involved with senior rugby and from June 2015 there will be 27-30 rugby players . . .
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