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Article: Sharks rugby school now snapping up foreign students.(Sports)
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- The Mercury (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 21, 2006
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BYLINE: mike greenaway
THE blossoming Sharks Academy is now attracting foreign students, and there are 14 British and Irish youngsters learning the art of Sharks rugby at the Absa Stadium-based rugby school.
They are here for a month-long course and have been put through their paces by Balie Swart, Ian McIntosh, Mark Andrews and Gary Teichmann.
"I don't think there is a rugby institution quite like this anywhere in the world," said Ramsay Kinghorn, a teacher at top English school Harrow.
"We are learning a tremendous amount from excellent coaches in weather conditions that are blissful."
Yesterday, the students had a lesson ...