Bromsgrove School are delighted with the appointment of Tony Windo as Director of Rugby at the school commencing August 2011.
Tony joins the school to head a team of high calibre and experienced staff. His role will see him developing links with local clubs and schools, especially Worcester Warriors and promoting Bromsgrove as a centre of excellence for youngsters keen to further their skills and participation at all levels of rugby.
The school has a proven track record of producing high quality players such as current internationals Ben Foden, Andy Goode and Matt Mullan as well as George Robson who has played for England Saxons. The appointment will also hopefully strengthen links with Worcester Warriors where a number of Old Bromsgrovians Ollie Frost, James Freeman, Mike Penn, Joel Dudley and Louis Padian ply their trade.
Tony, whose playing career saw him play over 400 senior games at prop for home-town club Gloucester and Worcester, joins Bromsgrove from Worcester Warriors which he joined as part of the coaching set-up in a full-time role in 2008. Tony’s most recent role at Warriors was as Skills Development and Scrum Coach, a position that saw him work closely with all the club’s front row forwards in both the Warriors and Academy squads.
Warriors have expressed their delight at Tony’s appointment and Head Coach Richard Hill said: “We congratulate Tony on the new role he will take on from this August and we believe his appointment will further enhance the very strong links between Worcester Warriors and Bromsgrove School.
Paul Mullan, Second Deputy, Co-Curricula at Bromsgrove School said, “Bromsgrove School are very excited by the appointment of Tony Windo as the new director of Rugby. We are looking to Tony to further enhance the School’s rugby reputation both locally and nationally.”
Tony said, “the opportunity to progress my career at a high level school such as Bromsgrove was too good an opening to turn down and it is a move I am very excited about. It will enable me to develop even stronger links between Bromsgrove School and the Warriors, a club I still feel passionately about.”
Bromsgrove School’s commitment to the sports is well known and a major development of sports facilities has just started at the School. Among the projects due for completion by Summer 2012 is a spectacular new indoor sports arena, one of the largest any UK school has ever constructed, with seating for up to 900 people. The building will accommodate eight badminton courts and will be large enough to host regional and national indoor hockey, basketball and netball events. Interlinked via covered walkways, the existing buildings will be refurbished and redesigned to sit seamlessly next to the new. The new arena will be preceded by a fresh and contemporary hospitality suite overlooking the School’s floodlit netball and hockey courts, it will encompass new dance studios and a viewing area for the redesigned swimming pool.
Headmaster Chris Edwards said, “Tony Windo and Paul Mullan are as fine a coaching team as any School in Britain could ask for. I expect Tony’s talent and experience to take Bromsgrove rugby even higher. These are exciting times.”