Dubbo and Orange have both been chosen to host some of the country's most exciting young rugby players this year.
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The venues for the 2021 Positive Rugby Foundation Boys NSW State Championship were announced on Saturday, with the Dubbo Kangaroos selected as the host club for the under 13s titles.
The carnival will be played out at Apex Oval while Orange's Endeavour Oval will host the under 14s titles.
All the state championships will run on the June long weekend.
NSW Juniors president Ben Gregory is looking forward to getting the show on the road after last year's event had to be cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions.
"Things are looking positive from all the information we have on the COVID front and what we'll be allowed to do," he said.
"So we're very excited to be able to resume our rep programs across all of NSW junior rugby union including school stuff."
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The venues chosen to host this year's championships are the same that would have hosted last year's events.
"We were very happy to support our clubs that had put their hands up for 2020," Gregory said.
All venues are expected to host almost 20 teams, with some coming from as far as Melbourne to take part.
"Obviously there's a long time between now and the June long weekend, but they've (Melbourne team) already shown indications that they want to come up," Gregory said.
"All the teams from the country zones in the state and all the Sydney districts are welcome to come.
"We usually get somewhere in the vicinity of 16-18 teams come to Orange which is a fantastic number of people to congregate in the Central West and they will see great rugby.
"These guys are all competing for a state championship, but there's the added bonus that they're all competing to make a Sydney and a country under 14s team as well.
The competitions will run on the long weekend of June 12 to June 14.