Accra, Feb. 16, GNA - Mr Herbert Mensah, President and Board Chairman of Ghana Rugby, has been nominated by the Board of the Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) for the position of President of the World Rugby continental body, Rugby Africa.
Rugby Africa would be electing new Executive Committee members at an Annual General Meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, on 2 March 2019.
Mr. Mensah, took over the reign at Ghana Rugby in June of 2014 and in less than four years steered the Union that was sitting with "nothing" after 11 years since its establishment in 2003 to achieve some remarkable feats:
He introduced a professional online and decentralised Rugby Management System, scrumIT, that has revolutionised the administrative running of rugby in Ghana and also introduced an online financial accounting system, that can boast of the ONLY sports Association that have produced Audited financial statements since 2015,
Mr. also established the first-ever ten team domestic league and since 2018 incorporated both a men's and women's section to the annual Ghana Rugby Club Championship and resuscitated Women in Rugby in Ghana.
He built a team that would take part in this year's Rugby Africa Women's Sevens Cup as well as in the yet to be announced Women's Fifteens Tournament.
Mr. Mensah, also introduced youth development on the basis of the World Rugby "Get Into Rugby" Programme, that has seen more than 5,000 new participants introduced to the Game of Rugby Union with a target of 10,000 for 2019.
Under his reign, they successfully not only hosted, but won two Rugby Africa Men's Fifteens Tournaments, the 2017 Regional Challenge and the 2018 Bronze Cup.
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