Brigshaw High win Leeds and Hunslet Schools Goldthorpe Cup final

By Peter Smith
Published 4th Feb 2022, 11:45 BST
Updated 4th Feb 2022, 18:06 BST
Brigshaw High celebrate winning the Leeds and Hunslet Schools' Year Eight Goldthorpe Cup. Picture by Mark Hudson.Brigshaw High celebrate winning the Leeds and Hunslet Schools' Year Eight Goldthorpe Cup. Picture by Mark Hudson.
Brigshaw High celebrate winning the Leeds and Hunslet Schools' Year Eight Goldthorpe Cup. Picture by Mark Hudson.
A new generation of rugby league talent is emerging at Brigshaw High School, in Allerton Bywater, near Castleford.

The school’s Year Eight side won the Leeds and Hunslet Schools’ Goldthorpe Cup with a 38-6 victory over Farnley Academy at Hunslet’s South Leeds Stadium.

Two more Brigshaw teams will go for glory at the same venue on Monday, when the Year Sevens take on Cockburn in the Gilston Cup final and the Year 11s face Leeds West Academy for the Wilson Cup.

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The Year 11s are also through to the Yorkshire Cup final which will be played at Featherstone next month.

Leeds Rhinos' Jack Walker is a former Brigshaw pupil. Picture by Jonathan Gawthorpe.Leeds Rhinos' Jack Walker is a former Brigshaw pupil. Picture by Jonathan Gawthorpe.
Leeds Rhinos' Jack Walker is a former Brigshaw pupil. Picture by Jonathan Gawthorpe.

Former Castleford Tigers star Danny Orr - now assistant-coach at Salford Red Devils - and the club’s first team physio’ Matty Crowther are both former pupils, along with Leeds Rhinos’ Jack Walter.

Rhinos youngster Alfie Edgell is in Year 13 at the school and former Brigshaw pupils who have gone into professional rugby league include Featherstone Rovers’ former Leeds Rhinos forward Loui McConnell, Louis Collinson, who made his debut for Batley Bulldogs last week and Myles Tate, of Keighley Cougars.

Another former pupil, Ethan Spear, is in Rhinos' squad for Sunday's Harry Jepson OBE Memorial Trophy tie aganst Hunslet, alongside McConnell.

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Current students are on scholarships at Leeds, Wakefield Trinity, Huddersfield Giants and Castleford.

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