07/07/2026
PROVIDE IT… AND THEY WILL COME. 🏉🔥
People keep saying “rugby is dying.”
I don’t believe young people have lost the love for the game.
I believe we need to give them more opportunities to fall in love with it.
More chances to:
🏉 Learn
⚡ Upskill
🧠 Understand the game
🤝 Build friendships
😂 Have fun
🔥 And just PLAY!
Our Ponsonby Rugby Club Holiday Clinic is proof.
90+ young athletes coming together in one place
Different clubs
Different schools
Different backgrounds
all connected by one thing…
THE LOVE OF THE GAME. ❤️🏉
And this is what I keep saying:
When you provide a quality programme…
When kids are actually coached…
When they are challenged…
When they improve…
When the environment has energy…
And when they can have a laugh while doing it…
THEY WILL COME.
Kids still want rugby.
They still want to learn.
They still want to compete.
They still want to belong to something.
We just have to PROVIDE IT.
90+ ATHLETES. ONE EPIC CLINIC. 🙌🏾🔥
The game isn’t dead.
The kids are waiting. 🏉
07/07/2026
Day 2 in the bag for our
Ponsonby Rugby Club
Manurewa Rugby Football Club Inc
Holiday clinics. Alot of learning, fun, making new friends but also banking memories 🏦.
Bring on the next 2 days 🙌🏾
05/07/2026
Ponsonby rugby clinic day 1 - The ice is officially broken
🧊🏉🖤💙
05/07/2026
Every sunday you'll see these athletes up in Hobsonville putting in work.
From
Speed 🏃🏿♂️💨🏃🏾♀️💨
Agility 👟
Fitness 🥵
Tacklin 👨🏻👨🏾
11 weeks in the bank 🏦
Fitness testing results show their hard work has paid off!!
Have an awesome school break. See you all in term 3
04/07/2026
11 WEEKS OF PREPARATION… FOR ONE DAY. 🔥
Today our troopers stepped onto the competition floor at the College Youth Games and absolutely emptied the tank. 🙌🏾
Every early morning.
Every hard session.
Every sore body.
Every moment they wanted to stop but kept pushing…
It all came down to today.
And man… THEY THREW IT DOWN. 😤🔥
Every WOD. Every rep. Every station. These super athletes gave 110% effort and represented with pride.
We honestly can’t put into words how proud we are.
Because today they weren’t only representing themselves…
They represented the whole IRON UP AIGA. 🖤❤️
They represented their own aiga waiting and cheering on the sidelines.
They represented every person who helped them through these last 11 weeks.
But what made us most proud wasn’t just the performance…
It was the way they backed each other.
The way they stayed together.
The way they encouraged each other when things got hard.
The hugs. The huddles. The laughs. The pain. The support.
That’s aiga. That’s culture. That’s IRON UP. 🫱🏾🫲🏽
To our athletes, hold your heads HIGH.
You were brave enough to step onto that floor, attack every challenge and give everything you had.
Proud is honestly an understatement. 🥹🙌🏾
Fa'afetai lava collegeyouthgamesnz fornthe memories banked!
11 weeks done.
College Youth Games done.
Memories for life. ❤️🔥
IRON SHARPENS IRON. ⚔️
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