VODAFONE has launched the 2010\/\u201911 Try Harder Rugby Awards for Schools with even bigger and better prizes for winners, their schools and their rugby coaches.
\nThis season, each month\u2019s winner will receive a sports voucher for \u00a3300; his school will receive a \u00a3500 voucher and will be offered a communications review from Vodafone, and the nominating rugby coach will receive the very latest iPhone 4. And the name of every rugby coach who nominates a player will be put into the hat for a very special prize at the end of the season.
\nAnother innovation for this year\u2019s Awards is that nominations can be made online. Schools rugby coaches wishing to nominate players can go to www.tryharder.co.uk. Paper nomination forms, however, can still be obtained by phoning Duffy Rafferty Communications on 028 9073 0880 or by emailing naomi@duffyrafferty.com and requesting one.
\nPauline Quigley, Head of Vodafone Northern Ireland said, \u201cTry Harder has been very successful over the past few years, with schools from all over Northern Ireland nominating players of all ages and abilities for awards, based on their willingness to try harder at their rugby.
\n\u201cThere is no doubt that the game is progressing really well at schools level with more and more Ulster schools starting to teach and play the sport.
\n\u201cWe at Vodafone are delighted this season to be able to offer enhanced prizes to the \u2018Try Harder\u2019 winners, the winners\u2019 schools and the rugby coaches and we hope that with nominations being taken online, it will make it even easier to nominate players.
\n\u201cVodafone started the Try Harder Awards to encourage all players, not to reward the best players\u201d, Pauline added. \u201cWe also wanted to ensure a \u2018level playing field\u2019 for all the rugby-playing schools so that they all would have an equal chance of having a winner.\u201d
\nThis is the fourth season of the Vodafone Try Harder Rugby Awards for Schools. The project was initiated to encourage the playing of rugby in schools and to highlight Vodafone as one of Ulster Rugby\u2019s main sponsors.
\nThis season there will be five awards presented for the months of October and November 2010 and for January, February and March 2011. Nominations for each month\u2019s award should be made before the 10th of the following month. So nominations for the first (October) award should be made by November 10th.<\/p>\n
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Over the three years of the Awards there have been winners from schools all around the country and of all ages. Last year\u2019s winners were:
\nCathal McNally from Abbey Christian Brothers Grammar School in Newry, Mark McIlwaine, from Lurgan Junior High School, Cory Ponter from Antrim Grammar School, Adam Sherrard from Coleraine Academical Institution and twins Josiah and Louis Whitworth from Drumragh College in Omagh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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