Name: Gareth Lewis
Nickname:
Born: 07/04/1953
Weight: 13st and rising
Height: 6ft
Position: Anywhere in the Backs - But has been recently been spied at Lock
Job: Teacher, Chipping Norton
Education: Yes
First Season
No of Games
For 1st XV
Number of Tries
Tries for 1st
Captain
Match Day Superstitions
Most Admired International Player The King -Barry John -Welsh Flyhalf.
Favourite Rugby Tour U19 Tour for Cleve Colts of Holland- but still failed to loose virginity!
Most Embarrassing moment on the Pitch Playing at Pontypool Park, in front of a coach load of my Welsh relatives, being carried off with a dislocated shoulder after 5 mins. We lost 74:0!
Most Embarrasing moment off the Pitch
Best Match for Witney
Worst Match for Witney
How to improve training
Remaining Rugby Ambitions To play first team rugby in the higher league next season!
Miscellaneous Representative : Played and Captained Cleve U16 and Colts, played for Bristol Colts. PE College: Nonnington Captained and also represented South East Colleges.
County Honours : County Cap for Oxfordshire (Centre) 1976-1982/3.
Senior Clubs : Cleve, Chipping Norton, Oxford, London Welsh, Northhampton, Oxford, Banbury, Witney, Oxford Vets, Witney Vets. Occasional guest games for the Blue Boar.
Coaching History : County U18, Up Coached County U21(Including Coaching several Witney Boys) Neal Tullet, Fish, Mark Ward, Paul Brown, Nigel Hugo, Chris Murray also Simon Stevenson and Tim Rodber.
Best rugby moments: Scoring against Pontypool for Oxford a 75 metre run.(true); Tackling Terry Cobner (Welsh International) so hard he had to go off! (true); Turning and catching Clive Rees (Welsh Winger) , tackling him in a 7's match.(true); Running through JC in a 7's match.(Ask JC!). County Championship quarter finals v Glos at Kingsholm in front of 3,000 biast supporters, hearing my sister call out "Go on Gareth!". We lost 24:5 (I think)
Worst moments: Playing Flyhalf behind Mark Godfrey at No8 for Witney at Chipping Norton away in January during a monsoon!
Most Admired Coach: My Dad!
Most Admired Bar Steward: Dave Wicks (In a league of his own)
Most admired team mate! Rhys James (Centre at Oxford). He had all the skills I lacked and I had what he lacked. Between us we made a good player and were telepathic!
Playing Weaknesses : I played rugby when fly halfs were a protected species and to prove my point they have now reached endandered species status. Tackling was for guys who had to to stay in the side! Especially if I was captain! I can tackle but they are rationed!