Green Machine win Sanix Tourney

GLENWOOD High School has won the prestigious international rugby union tournament, The Sanix World Rugby Youth Invitational Tournament in Japan.

Thirty Glenwood school-boy rugby players and six staff members travelled to the Global Arena in Fukuoka in Japan on 24 April, and in the final, took on Higashi Fukuoka High School from Japan, beating them 45 – 6.

This is the second time Glenwood has won this prominent tournament, being part of an elite group of schools such as Hamilton Boys High School (NZ) who won this tournament in 2014, 2011 and 2010, Christchurch Boys (NZ) who won in 2006, 2005 and Rotorua Boys’ High (NZ) in 2014 and 2003. Glenwood is the only South African school that has won this tournament twice.

In 2008 Glenwood was chosen by SARU to represent South Africa at the prestigious Sanix World Youth Championships in Japan and won the tournament, beating the champions of England, New Zealand and France along the way. Glenwood was invited back in 2009 and, although they did not win the tournament, they had the satisfaction of beating the New Zealand champions, De La Salle College from Auckland 37 – 10 in the third-place playoff.