Ruggas Awards 2025 Winners Announced

 

Following an exciting process where our readers nominated 265 candidates, which was cut down to 108 candidates by our panel, voted for by the public with a record 221,016 votes, and finally confirmed by our panel.
A significant debate among the panel resulted in all the voted winners being declared winners, except for School of the Year, where Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool was declared the winner after calculating the rankings of the four age groups by adding them together.
Winners:
Player of the Year - Markus Muller (Paarl Gimnasium)
Female Player of the Year - Endinalo Fihla (Western Province)
LSEN Player of the Year - Yusuf Hannibal (Jan Kriel)
Backline Player of the Year - Zekhethelo Siyaya (Westville)
Forward of the Year - AJ Meyer (Grey College)
Most Valuable Player - Josh Neill (Rondebosch)
Team of the Year - Paarl Boishaai 1stXV
School of the Year - Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool
School of the Year (Most Improved) - Hoërskool Durbanville
Coach of the Year - Sean Erasmus (Paarl Boishaai)
Administrator of the Year - Ruan Jacobs (Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool)