Former Eastern Province Craven Week and SA Schools prop Lupumlo Mguca, is being provided a once in a lifetime opportunity to finish his studies at the prestigious Burnside High School in Christchurch, New Zealand. <\/p>\n
Mguca will be leaving for New Zealand later this week on a scholarship, provided by the SA Rugby EP Kings Academy, along with support from the EP Rugby Union.<\/p>\n
On his arrival in New Zealand, Mguca will complete four of his matric subjects, while taking part in an extensive rugby programme offered through the school.<\/p>\n
He will then return next year, where he will complete his matric in line with the Kings Academy Programme.<\/p>\n
Burnside High School is the largest secondary school in the South Island of New Zealand. It is a co-ed school with an established reputation for academic excellence, with 2,600 registered students including international students from more than 45 different countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an amazing opportunity for a local boy from Swartkops Valley Motherwell, to experience the culture of New Zealand, and be schooled and coached by some of New Zealand\u2019s top coaches.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first scrumming coaching session is going to be taken by the legendry Mike Cron the All Black scrum guru,\u201d said Academy Manager, Robbie Kempson.<\/p>\n
Kempson said Mguca would be staying in a Homestay programme while in New Zealand \u2013 where exchange students are placed with a local family\u2013 being placed with the school\u2019s first team coach\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a great opportunity for him, no other school in New Zealand offers such a full programme to develop their students rugby abilities.<\/p>\n
The number of hours of high-level skills training and weights is basically the same as for a professional player,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Eastern Province Craven Week and SA Schools prop Lupumlo Mguca, is being provided a once in a lifetime opportunity to finish his studies at the prestigious Burnside High School in Christchurch, New Zealand. Mguca will be leaving for New Zealand later this week on a scholarship, provided by the SA Rugby EP Kings Academy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}