A RUGBY player from Hampshire is one of just 20 nationwide to be selected for an academy programme.

Player and coach Sasha Bryan, 17, was chosen to attend the National Young Coaches Academy at Loughborough last weekend (DEC 21).

The course will help Sasha, an upper-sixth student at Winchester’s Peter Symonds College, to improve her coaching skills (including instruction, demonstration, observation, analysis, feedback and questioning), and β€˜to become great teachers of people as well as of sport.’