After just one season of playing club rugby and Kyra Mocetuba is basking in triple success. Not only having been asked to join the England Player Development Group (the pathway for playing for The Roses), but also for Surrey Rugby.  In addition, she has been offered a Sports Scholarship for Gordon’s Sixth Form!

The U16 fly half rugby player was encouraged by her coaches at Gordon’s to join Guildford Rugby Club last year: “I’d say Gordon’s was the main drive for me. They got me to join the club at the beginning. I think the girls’ rugby here is really, really good. They push girls a lot to step outside their comfort zone.”

Such is her passion for the sport that she trains twice a week with Guildford and also with her father at home! The two of them analyse games and then go out and practise drills. “I feel that rugby is a break from everything else. It is amazing. It gives you an excuse to forget everything, to have a break from the stress of GCSEs.

Currently nursing a fractured wrist (on her writing hand!) from playing rugby, with GCSE exams looming, Kyra said:  “I feel that when you love a sport so much you just dive right in, I didn’t even think twice when I fractured this wrist. A tackle fell on it and I carried on playing.”

Her dream is to play for England one day and her advice to anyone else with ambitions like hers: “If you have a dream don’t give up on it. Make it your drive and don’t stop”.