Player Development
We are here to focus on the holistic personal development of the professional rugby players to ensure that they are equipped with the necessary skills and education to be successful in life outside of rugby.
We are here to focus on the holistic personal development of the professional rugby players to ensure that they are equipped with the necessary skills and education to be successful in life outside of rugby.
The personal mastery sessions’ aim is to set up a game plan for our members’ lives outside of rugby. We do this by exploring the following:
The focus of these group sessions will be to explore:
We arrange and facilitate player sessions about the day-to-day vulnerabilities which they might face. These sessions include the following, but are not limited to:
We work with the North West University (NWU) to provide our players with a 24/7 mental well-being hotline, which they can use for:
– We also have mental health presentation sessions with our members during our union visits to create more awareness about the importance of mental health.
Any player unsure about what he/she wants to do outside of rugby can complete psychometric assessments after which feedback is provided about possible career paths.
Each year we make a number of bursaries available to our players to further their education.
We arrange job shadowing and internship opportunities.
We prepare our players for workplace readiness by assisting them on:
We partnered with Educational Institutes to provide our players with exclusive study benefits. Our partners are:
Our National Player Development Manager works with managers from the Lions, Bulls, Sharks, Western Province and Cheetahs to develop and maintain a standard player development framework and curriculum.
As players’ organisation we want to ensure that all unions address player development in an unswerving and consistent manner to safeguard the members’ development outside of rugby, especially when they move from one union to another.
Part-time player development managers (PDMs)
Our Part-time PDMs will carry out the Player Development Programme and will also draft Personal Development Plans for all senior players.
Tygerberg Business Park
163 Uys Krige Drive
Plattekloof, Cape Town
South Africa
7500
021 887 5786
info@my-players.com
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