Providing top-quality education to boys from Form 2 to Form 6, we draw on our long and proud tradition, as well as our dynamic and forward-thinking ethos.
Providing top-quality education to boys from Form 2 to Form 6, we draw on our long and proud tradition, as well as our dynamic and forward-thinking ethos.
Providing top-quality education to boys from Form 2 to Form 6, we draw on our long and proud tradition, as well as our dynamic and forward-thinking ethos.
Providing top-quality education to boys from Form 2 to Form 6, we draw on our long and proud tradition, as well as our dynamic and forward-thinking ethos.
2025 Skonk Nicolson U14 & U16 Festival
Maritzburg College is proud to host the 2025 Skonk Nicholson Rugby Festival and to welcome 20 teams and their supporters to our campus. We sincerely hope that all who participate or spectate will enjoy all that is great in schoolboy sport, viz. the camaraderie, team-spirit, passion, commitment and sportsmanship. These were all noble ideals fostered in his rugby teams over 35 seasons by the late Mr Nicholson himself.
Under Skonk’s leadership, College came to be one of the rugby powerhouses in South Africa, producing 14 unbeaten First XVs and countless Natal and SA Schools’ players during his 35 seasons at the helm. Over the passage of years, Skonk coached many players who played provincial and international rugby, including at least 10 Natal flyhalves alone!
Our event logo pays tribute to our beloved Nicholson Arch which stands nearby to the Kent Pavilion at College, overlooking the school’s main rugby field, Goldstone’s. Erected in 1982, the year of Skonk’s retirement. It is a cherished tradition for each First XV player, as he steams onto the pitch, to reach up and touch the apex of the arch, in mute tribute to College’s own ‘Mr Rugby’.
Date: 28 March – 1 April
PROGRAMME
Results U14 & U16
Important Contact:
Tournament Director: Liam Smorfitt
smorfittl@mcollege.co.za
0844744838