1. 25 April 2015
To Whom It May Concern
Re: Dennis Bowes
The International Rugby Academy (IRANZ) provides inspiration and a high performance avenue for
promising players and coaches from throughout the rugby world.
Dennis Bowes is a Graduate of our Advanced Coaches Course and High Performance Coaches Course at
the Sport and Rugby Institute in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Dennis was a great contributor on both Courses he attended and he interacted well with both coaches and
players that were involved in the programmes.
Dennis was extremely proficient in presenting back to the coaching group following workshop modules. His
communication skills were outstanding and he demonstrated sound listening skills and an openness to
different ideas and concepts. Dennis also displayed a very good technical and tactical understanding of the
game and he has good all-round knowledge in all areas. His specialist areas of coaching are defence,
lineout and the contact/breakdown area.
Dennis is a coach that has the experience and ability to coach at the professional level. He impressed all
of his peers as well as the IRANZ staff coaches.
I wish him well in his career and expect to see him progress through the coaching ranks.
Yours faithfully
Steve McHardy
General Manager
P O Box 12420, Wellington, New Zealand
Email: murray@iranz.co.nz Tel: +64 4 382 9119 Fax: +64 4 382 9118
www.iranz.co.nz