There’s something in the water at Amman Valley Comprehensive School. At least, that’s Wales Women coach Ioan Cunningham’s assessment of Wales’ ostensible rugby hotbed nestled in the Amman Valley.
A conveyor belt works as an equally apt description as well, given the 166 Wales caps and counting coursing through through the school’s proverbial veins, courtesy of current centre and captain Hannah Jones (43), scrum-half Ffion Lewis (28), backrow Jac Morgan (8) and legend Shane Williams (87).
Cunningham, too, is another former pupil who shares the Amman Valley origin point, having scaled through Wales’ youth international ranks while attending the school before electing to turn his career towards coaching.
