Bath Rugby

The SW Division, having been narrowly defeated in the first match by the North (18-21), soundly defeated the Midlands Division (39-7) on the all-weather 3g crum floodlit pitch at Moseley RFC. 

All four Bath Youth players have benefited at some stage by receiving additional coaching with the Bath Rugby Academy, Elite Player Development Groups.

Chris COOK  [9]

(Bath Minis & Juniors, Bath Colts, Millfield School, Somerset U18 & SW England U18)

Tom HARRISON  [3]

(Bath Minis & Juniors, Bath Colts, Hartpury College, Somerset U18 & SW England U18)

Olly ROBINSON  [7]

(Bath Minis & Juniors, Bath Colts, Bath Academy (EPDG), Prior Park College, Somerset U18 & SW England U18)

Mike UREN  [4]

(Keynsham RFC, Bath U16, Bath Colts & St Brendan's Sixth Form College, Somerset U18 & SW England U18)

The Divisional Festival is by means of a series of coaching sessions and trial matches forming the U18 England selection process, and open-side flanker, Olly Robinson, who played England "A" at U16 level and remains a member of the Bath Academy (Elite Player Development Group, and Millfield School scrum-half Chris Cook were both successful in being selected into the England U18 AER Squad (2008-09).

Olly (who captained the South West U18 to victory over the Midlands) and Chris have played rugby together for 12 seasons, from Under 7s at Bath Minis through to the Bath Youth Rugby Colts, can now look forward to representing England U18 in a Squad of around 30 selected players, who will prepare for the AER European Tournament to be played in the Toulon area of France from April 5 to 11.

Two other Bath Rugby Academy players were also selected for the England AER training squad following the festival at Moseley. They are inside centre Ben Mosses (Millfield Scholl & Somerset) and fly half Tom Heathcote (Bishops Wordsworth, Salisbury RFC and Dorset and Wilts.

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