Rugby is a team game for all shapes and sizes
To play a part in the development of our young people, has been one of the core reasons for creating THE RUGBY UNIVERSE. Rugby is a beautiful game that has a place for all shapes and sizes! A game that teaches life skills based on the core values of respect, humility, trust, resilience, team work and discipline. It embraces the individual, human spirit and a team culture.
About Us
The Mission
To design and deliver popular and leading programmes with a person centred approach as the key, using unique coaching methods to teach the fundamental skills of the game and to develop positive behaviours within individuals. And to help people with a similar passion to be able to build a rewarding business in their allocated geographical area.
The Vision
To build a global footprint through our sports and rugby programmes, that impacts communities and the lives of young people in a positive way.
RUGBY
We are creators of fun rugby programmes for boys and girls at all levels. All of our programmes are based on the fundamentals of physical development and the fundamentals and skills of the beautiful game of rugby. Our aim is to help maximise the development of these fundamentals in kids, building confidence, important social skills, and growing a passion for the game.
We believe in the value of fun, but also believe in cultivating an attitude of having a good go at it, and planting the seed that hard work beats talent. We champion the development of the player as a whole, and over the long term. Our programmes start with kids as young as 18 months old with our popular Tiny Tacklers Programme and continue to when they enter the adult game. We also run Rugby Skills Camps in the holidays and weekly skills sessions/academies and rugby after school clubs.
We aim to develop all the key areas needed by players, to play the game in whatever format they choose.
We use our unique coaching method in THE RUGBY UNIVERSE programmes.
MULTI SPORT
We are also championing the introduction of different sports during the formative years. We believe that it helps to establish the love of physical activity and a healthy lifestyle, from an early age, and gives children the chance to enjoy different games and develop different skills during the process. We use different sports and equipment in our rugby programmes and we run Multi Sports Camps during the holidays.
CAMPS
Our holiday rugby and multi sports camps are great ways to keep kids active, learning and practicing different skills and sports through fun games and exercises.
RUGBY PARTIES
We love rugby and there is no better way to have a Kids Rugby Party on your birthday. We run an hour session as part of your child’s party!
Areas of development
Technical skills
The development of technique under pressure.
Tactical skills
The development of game sense, game management, awareness, anticipation, decision-making and finishing.
Physical ability
Fundamental movement and motor skills, hand-eye coordination, strength, balance, power, agility, speed, endurance.
Psychological skills
The development of a growth mindset and positive behaviours of team spirit, encouragement, teamwork, friendship, resilience, trust, respect, humility, discipline and self motivation.
Leadership skills
Self-organisation, self-reflection, self-correction, problem solving, decision making, communication, directing and organising others, people skills, social skills and leading through being authentic.
Programme delivery
Weekly programme sessions
School partnerships - after school clubs, curriculum delivery
Club partnerships
Holiday camps
THE RUGBY UNIVERSE Academy
Kids Parties
Kids Club - Out of School Fun - After School Wraparound Care
A team game for all shapes and sizes
About the creators
Corné du Rand, the founder of THE RUGBY UNIVERSE, and creator of the different programmes, strongly believes that rugby is a game for all. He believes that kids learn valuable life skills, build confidence, and are healthier in body and mind, when they are involved in good sports environments. Such environments promotes fun, purposeful learning, inclusiveness and leadership development.
Born in South Africa, a country with a strong rugby culture, he fell in love with the game from a very young age, making lifelong friends, cherishing everything the game added to his life. In 1995, while studying a business degree in Recreation and Sports Management at the University of Pretoria, Nelson Mandela, a world leader and president of the new post-apartheid South Africa, handed over the Webb Ellis Cup to the Rugby World Cup tournament hosts, South Africa. Crowning the country's beloved Springbok rugby team as the new world champions!
Experiencing firsthand, the power of sport, in binding a nation’s people together, has been a key influence in Corné’s belief that sport has a major role to play in people's lives, their communities and the wider world we live in.
Corné deems that he has been very fortunate being part of fantastic team environments as he grew up. He played rugby from the age of 6 at school and captained various teams, including playing for the University of Pretoria and various club levels in the United Kingdom. He played representative rugby for his provinces at school (Mpumalanga Pumas) and at university (Blue Bulls), in South Africa, before he played professional and semi-professional rugby in the Republic and the UK. His coaching journey started at university but his first paid position was as a player-coach for Ealing Trailfinders senior men’s first team in London in 2006. As a RFU Level 3 qualified coach and Director of Rugby, Corné has coached and managed clubs, and across all different ages, from toddlers and minis rugby to junior and adults, and at all levels from amateur and development to performance programmes.
After working for numerous rugby clubs (including the University of Pretoria, Ealing Trailfinders, London Scottish, Grasshoppers RFC, London Cornish) to help design, lead and deliver beneficial development rugby programmes in communities, Corné gained invaluable experience and felt it was time to put his ideas, beliefs and experience all to work, and THE RUGBY UNIVERSE was created.
We are now also offering franchise opportunities, looking to support franchisees to build their own successful and rewarding sports and rugby business. We aim to grow the footprint of our fun programmes worldwide and we are excited to find the right candidates to get involved.
About our coaches
All our coaches and staff are recruited and trained up as creators of fun learning environments. Our coaches use our unique coaching method to help develop our young people as healthy human beings. Our coaches shows integrity, a passion for sport, humility and a genuine interest in the person as an individual. We love seeing young people achieve their goals, and we hope our programmes and those delivering it, bring out the best in the individual.
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