UK Tour 2020 - England & Wales - Coventry Rugby Tours UK March 8th to 15th 2020
Coventry High School team coming off a Rugby PA State Champhionship Final appearance, tour and play games in England and Wales.
Tour Cardif Castle, visited and toured
principalitystadium.wales . Met with USA Eagle Flyhalf AJ Macginty at the Sale Sharks stadium. Toured the Big Pit - Big Pit National Coal Museum. The team participated in pro trainings at pro facilities and played two rugby matches in England & Wales.
See our Facebook Albums for photos from each day of the 2020 UK Tour:
https://www.facebook.com/CoventryRugbyWildcats/photos_albums
Details
Cardiff Wales, Principality Stadium, Cardiff Castle, and some rugby in the rain vs Llandaff North RSSC, North Cardiff Wales UK.
Coventry Rugby v Chester RUFC (Senior Colts u18) ----------------
Coventry Rugby Wildcats with Mark Jennings from Neubria & AJ MacGinty ----------------
"Huge thank you to AJ and Mark for coming in and talking to our players about what they can accomplish. What an inspiration!" - Coach Mal
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Alan "AJ" MacGinty is an Irish-born professional rugby player, who represents the United States USA Rugby in international competition. He primarily plays as a fly-half. MacGinty plays club rugby for English Premiership team Sale Sharks.
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Chester RUFC History: ----------------
There is evidence that a team from Chester played a game against New Brighton at the end of the 19th century, and that club confirms that such a match appears in their records during the season 1879/80. However no reference has been found to a Chester Rugby Club prior to 1925 when it would appear that Chester RUFC was formed under the Chairmanship of Colonel Charles Bromley during a meeting at the YMCA in October of that year.
Having played on pitches at both the Racecourse and Bumpers Lane, in 1932 the Club moved to rented facilities at Boughton Hall as tenants of the Cricket Club. Here they stayed for almost 30 years until an old American army camp, along with adjoining fields, at Vicars Cross was purchased and the Club moved there in 1961. More: https://www.chesterrufc.com/a/club-history-57082.html
- Salford Red Devils Rugby League Game - Big Pit National Mine Museum -
Big Pit National Coal Museum
History Museum
Blaenavon, UK
https://museum.wales/bigpit/
Big Pit - Big Pit National Coal Museum - Big Pit is a real coal mine and one of Britain's leading mining museums. With facilities to educate and entertain all ages, it's an exciting and informative day out.
Enjoy a multi-media tour of a modern coal mine with a virtual miner in the Mining Galleries, exhibitions in the Pithead Baths and Historic colliery buildings open to the public for the first time. All this AND the world-famous Underground Tour. Go 300 feet underground with a real miner and see what life was like for the thousands of men who worked at the coal face.
