Rugby league

ST PATRICK'S Primary school officials are elated at being chosen to host the NSW Primary Schools rugby league championships next year after the highly successful outing the title made to Griffith this year.

The championships showcase the best talent coming through the ranks, and Wagga Diocese Primary schools sport co-ordinator Bill Ross said St Pats was honoured to be the official hosts of the titles in 2010.

"The Wagga Diocese is part of the MacKillop region and it was MacKillop's turn to host and it basically came around on our roster as well so it just so happened that it came around in the same 12-month period," Ross said.

"But it's the biggest junior rugby league carnival the PSSA hosts because it's an open carnival, so it's a culmination of going from local trials right through to regional selections and each region's player vying to get into state teams."

When asked if he believed any local students would be able to make the state MacKillop team, Ross said it would be tough, but insisted any players willing to put their bodies on the line will be given the chance to show their wares in front of the selectors.

"To get in the MacKillop team our players have to come up against kids from Sydney and Wollongong and so they're coming up against players that are at a pretty high level all the time," he said.

"We will have our Wagga diocese trials which will take in kids out this way, then we'll go to Canberra and come up against Wollongong, Sydney and Parramatta and Canberra Goulburn diocese and then that's when we finally pick our side so it's a pretty wide area to pick from."