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Rep scene domination
by KYLIE STEVENS

WESTFIELDS Sports High School has got the blues - but in a good way, with 10 future rugby league stars selected for NSW CHS in the U15s and open squad.
  Alex Savainaea, Jarrad Hayne, Daniel Folks, Troy Pan, Jordan Tuaau, Chris Keating will don the blue jersey in the U15s anlong with Blake Green, Michael Greenfield and John Koborsi in the opens.
  Thirteen players were selected for the Sydney Metropolitan side where they fought for a NSW jersey in Toronto two weeks ago.
Westfields Rep Players ON THE ATTACK... Ten out of 13 Westfields rugby league players made the NSW CHS side.      Photo: HELEN NEZDROPA
It is a great achievement for the school as only two students progressed to Sydney Metropolitan level last year.
  One of them was Liam Fulton, who made it all the way to the Australian Schoolboys squad and is expected to make his first grade debut for the West Tigers this season.
  The boys are products of the school's rugby league program, headed by coordinator Wayne Lambkin.
  Graduates from the program who have made first grade in the NRL
include the Tigers' Michael Buettner and Luke O'Donnell, Eels' Pat Richards and Chris Armit, Rabbitohs' Joven Clarke and Mark Minichello and Dragons' Reece Simmons.
  "Ten boys out of 40 boys selected to represent NSW is a very good result," Lambkin said. "We are starting to develop mature players who I feel can achieve greater things. We've rebuilt the program since I came to the school 18 months ago by bringing in a new focus.
I'm a fulltime coach, rather than a teacher, making the coach-player relationship much easier. Not putting pressure on them also helps.
  He said the new-look program is making a difference where several of the U15 players were part of last year's u14 Buckley Shield side which was state runner-up.

Wednesday 4th June 2003


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