Monty gives back to SACS

Monty gives back to SACS

10 Mar 2010

Former Springbok fullback Percy Montgomery has given his support to the SACS Rugby Foundation.

The Foundation, which was launched last week, aims to make SACS Junior the leading rugby school in the Western Cape and a top five national rugby entity; and to elevate SACS High’s rugby status to No 1 in the Western Cape and among the top 10 schools in South Africa.

‘Now that I have retired and settled in Cape Town I can give of my time to the school whose people gave so much of their time to me,’ said Montgomery, SACS’ most famous old boy. ‘The Foundation is incredibly exciting because it gives me a chance to say thank you for what was done for me and to contribute towards giving others the same opportunity I had.

‘I, like everyone involved in the Foundation, believe SACS can be and must be powerful in rugby, but most important is that we provide an option for students to make SACS their school of choice, and that the Foundation provides the kind of funding that ensures the best players in the junior school progress to the high school and are not lured away to other institutions.’

Funding generated by the Foundation will primarily be allocated to such bursaries, but the Foundation’s belief in education means funding will not be restricted to rugby players only, and allowance has been made to improve the intellectual capital of rugby masters who coach and administer the game, and boys whose involvement in rugby extends beyond playing the game.


6 Comments

  • 1.Gambit25: Reply to this comment
    10 Mar 2010, 11:02 am

    Good on you Percy…

    Good luck, but SACS has quite a way to go to reach Paarl Gym, Paarl Boys, Paul Roos and Bishops!

  • 2.Michael: Reply to this comment
    10 Mar 2010, 12:00 pm

    @Gambit25: Sadly, yes. We have produced the likes of Monty, Dollie and Paul Delport. We also celebrate when we beat Rondebosch every few years, though we regularly beat many other schools. It is because academic studies comes before sport and rightly so.

    I agree too it is fantastic that Monty is becoming involved. It can only help to raise sports’ standards. He cannot help academically; he failed Matric.

  • 3.Michael: Reply to this comment
    10 Mar 2010, 12:01 pm

    @Michael: Failed the first time round, that is.

  • 4.TASSIES: Reply to this comment
    10 Mar 2010, 21:09 pm

    @Michael: then he didn’t fail Michael? But Percy is no Nobel Prize for Literature candidate is he then? I suspect that is what you were alluding to. A genius at rugby is good enough for the rest of us. Giving back is a sign of a true human champion. From a WBHSOB.

  • 5.Michael: Reply to this comment
    11 Mar 2010, 00:19 am

    @TASSIES: He failed. No failure would have meant passing Matric at his first attempt. He succeeded at his second attempt.

    He has always been a SACS man, one of the most passionate. I’d rather have him mentoring the current generation than HO de Villiers who was a useless coach.

    Monty was one year ahead of me during his repeat year.

  • 6.Bergie: Reply to this comment
    15 Mar 2010, 11:56 am

    This is good to see, Monty will always be a legend. You will be surprised at the results.

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