Welcome to the beginning of South Meck Rugby.  Head Coach Cam Hayes and I have the honor and privilege to coach our Sabre boys through our first season of Sabre rugby.  If we do it right, the boys will come to love and enjoy rugby as much as we do.

Our story as I know it…

Coach Hayes has been trying to start a High School team at South Meck for a number of years now.  The main obstacle was obtaining the required “Faculty Advisor”.  Then came Robert…

South Meck was very fortunate this year to get a transfer student, Robert Vaughan, from West Meck.  Robert played rugby at WMHS and was determined to continue playing while attending SMHS so he recruited Mr. Matthew Rice (Biology) to be our Faculty Advisor.  They found Coach Hayes (and me) to coach…  and also recruited Mr. George Beyer (Chemistry) to be our Faculty Advisor.

We are also very fortunate to hold our Tuesday/Thursday practices ON CAMPUS!! Thanks to Mr. Kevin Hinson (AD) and Coach Rocky White (Football Head Coach), for their support for our on-campus practices.  It is so much easier on our young ruggers and their families to practice on-campus.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving we also give thanks to the Charlotte Tigers rugby team.  They donated a full set of jerseys/shorts/socks to us, in addition to giving us some “South Meck Rugby” t-shirts (they had created a number of years ago when they were just getting started).  We appreciate the generosity and hope to pass on the goodwill.

Our team will do all it can to help our young ruggers become great ruggers, great teammates, great students and great young men (not necessarily in that order 🙂 )

Coach Hawk