Carnegie Challenge Cup 2009 Wembley Weekend

The winners of this year's Carnegie Champion Schools Finals have been crowned.

The event took place at RAF Uxbridge on Friday and saw schools from all over the country taking part in the Years 7 to 10 finals. The Year 7 Boys final, between Castleford High and Outwood Grange, was the traditional Carnegie Challenge Cup Final curtain raiser at Wembley, with Outwood being crowned winners after seeing off Castleford 20-12.

The scores were:

Saturday 29th August 2009 Wembley Stadium
Year 7 (Boys)
Castleford High (Wakefield) 12 - 20 Outwood Grange (Wakefield)

Year 7 (Girls)
Hollingworth High (Rochdale) 36 - 0 De La Salle (St Helens)

Year 8 (Girls)
Settle Middle (North Yorkshire) 20 - 12 Holy Cross (Lancashire)

Year 8 (Boys)
Brooksbank (Calderdale) 32 - 14 Standish (Wigan)

Year 9 (Girls)
Wade Deacon (Halton) 4 - 20 Castleford High (Wakefield)

Year 9 (Boys)
Castleford High (Wakefield) 12 -32 Freeston (Wakefield)

Year 10 (Girls)
Castleford High (Wakefield) 16 - 8 Settle College (North Yorkshire)

Year 10 (Boys)
Castleford High (Wakefield) 20 - 6 Wade Deacon (Halton)

For full match reports click here.

Rugby League has seen an immense growth in schools over the last few years which will support the development of the sport in the future and this competition has played a vital role in introducing Rugby League to an ever increasing number of young people throughout the United Kingdom.

In this year's tournament a total of 1,678 different teams took part in the competition, which is an increase from last year of 175 teams. Overall, 27,537 students took part in this year's Carnegie Champion Schools Tournament.

In 2007 a group of young players became the first teams to play Rugby League at the new Wembley Stadium after its re-opening. West Yorkshire schools Castleford High and Freeston High met in the 2007 Carnegie Champion Schools Year Seven Final.

Remarkably the same teams feature in this year's Carnegie Champion Schools Year 9 Final at Uxbridge and for the third year in a row they will battle it out.

Warrington Wolves deservedly lifted the Carnegie Challenge Cup for the first time in 35 years as Michael Monaghan inspires them to a 25-16 victory over Huddersfield Giants.

A crowd of over 76,000 at Wembley saw Tony Smith's Lancashire side triumph over a spirited Huddersfield side, outscoring them four tries to two. Monaghan got his name on the score sheet as well as picking up the coveted Lance Todd trophy as he put in a man of the match performance. Warrington opened the scoring within the first minute of the game following a try from Richie Mathers and Huddersfield struggled to deal with the Wolves' attacking flair.

Leeds Metropolitan University Chancellor Brendan Foster and Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe MP handed over the historic trophy to the Warrington side as jubilant celebrations ensued.

Earlier, former St Helens, Hull and Wakefield international full back Steve Prescott had delivered the match ball to Wembley following a 700 mile cycle ride across France, a dragon boat trip up the Thames and finally a half marathon to Wembley. Before the game the crowd were entertained by Leeds Met partners, The Black Dyke Band, and international students from Leeds Met were also involved in the pre-match entertainment.

Links between rugby league and Carnegie go back to 1936 when one of the college's first students, the legendary Eric Harris, scored a famous try when Leeds won the Challenge Cup at Wembley.

The University is also recognised in rugby league for its own performance on the pitch, as British University Champions for the third consecutive year, unbeaten at home for four years, and the first student team to reach the third round of the prestigious knock-out competition, the Carnegie Challenge Cup this year.

As well as the Carnegie Challenge Cup, Leeds Met's six-year partnership with the RFL includes the Carnegie Champion Schools Tournament, the biggest rugby league tournament in the world, involving 25,000 school-girls and boys. Leeds Met is also the primary partner for the Carnegie World Club Challenge and the Carnegie Student Ashes. The RFL's full-time referees and technical staff are based at Leeds Met's Headingley Campus and students can be seen rubbing shoulders with these champions around the campus.

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[TheCarolStreamKid]

Since I live in the US, we have The NFL.

(National Fooball League) Type it in the youtube search engine

[LeedsMetUni]

We do have an American Football club here at Leeds Met, and we will hopefully be featuring them on Carnegie Sports Weekly in the upcoming weeks so watch this space!

[CompleteInferno11]

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! OGA are awesome

[mrnoodleheadz]

I go to brooksbank yay

[leeiace11]

the mighty brooksbank win again! ;D

[TheCarolStreamKid]

at the beginning of every nfl game, it has this very cool music.

[emilol1001]

haha we won our game  go settle middle!!

[tapleym8]

hah mis sister abbie tapley was there playing for castlefordhigh and she is on here so i redici

[aimeer24]

thats our match behind the fella when he's speaking...haha, i can hear me mum screaming :|

loved it there :)!

[eminem8745]

yeah heard our school (wade deacon) won! lol