With the qualifying rounds of the Broncos Schoolboy Challenge competitions virtually over and the knock out stages National Arrive Alive Cup set to commence it has been a boon year for last years National Finalists and current Queensland Champions Keebra Park. While the Southport based school has traditionally been a stronghold of schoolboy football, this years results have seen its strongest showing across the board and an indicator that the schools “Sports Specialisation in Rugby League Program” in conjunction with the Wests Tigers affiliation are really making a difference.

“I’m particularly pleased with the results so far this year” said coach of 18 years Greg Lenton. “We have always performed well at the senior school level and while we have continued this we have also had some exceptional success within the junior school” he added.

In the Open A division where Keebra are the current Queensland Champions and 2006 National finalists the side captained by hooker and Nerang Junior Jimmy Poland have just one game of the round robin component left and should finish in first place.

“We have faced some pretty stiff competition so far this year and there are no easy games” he said. “The boys are training well though and are confident that we can give a good account of ourselves in the Arrive Alive Cup” he added.

In other divisions the Open C’s have made it into the Gold Coast Titans Cup final where they will face rivals Palm Beach Currumbin in a highly anticipated match up where both schools will be looking to cement themselves as inaugural champions.
The 15 yrs and 13yrs teams have won the Broncos Powerade Kevin Walters Cup and Steve Renouf Shields pre challenge rounds respectively while the 14 yrs side has finished third in the Michael Hancock Cup. These results are extremely important as the guarantee qualification for the 2007 competitions.