junior section From the 1970s rugby in local schools began to decline, affecting player numbers, so in the 1980s the club formed a junior and minis section. The club gained several successes in the President's Cup, bringing top level opposition such as Blackheath to Baldock Road for competitive fixtures in the Pilkington Cup, and with the arrival of leagues in the 1990s Letchworth briefly reached the heights of London North 2, but found themselves in London 4 by 1998. Changes in the game and population at large meant that player numbers had fallen by the end of the 1990s, but the club could still field three XVs and by 2002 Letchworth were back in London 2, where they have remained ever since. Club honours Hertfordshire Presidents' Cup winners (5): 1977, 1978, 1987, 2014, 2015 Hertfordshire 1 champions: 1989–90 London 3 North West champions: 1990–91 London 4 North West champions: 2000–01 London 2 (north-east v north-west) promotion playoff winners: 2001–02 Current squad The Letchworth Garden City Rugby Club Senior Men's Squad for the 2019–20 season; Junior rugby For a period junior rugby was a low priority at Letchworth, but in recent years that has changed dramatically. Several years of steady growth since 2000 culminated in January 2007 when both the club's Under 13 and Under 14 teams won promotion to the first division of the Herts/Middlesex League in only their second season in the league. Another notable achievement was during the 2009/08 season, where the U'15's were crowned county champions after seeing off Old Albanians in a hard-fought final. Women's and girls' rugby A women's team existed at the club for a short period in the 1990s, but it was not until 2004 that the female game was revived at the club with the formation of a girls' section catering for girls aged 11 to 18. Beginning with only seven girls in its first year, by 2006 the section had grown to be one of the largest in the region when it lifted its first trophy - the Rochford Tens. In 2006 the club also hosted one of the largest one-day girls' rugby festivals ever - Hertfordshire Girls' Sevens. At its peak the girls' team was in the top ten in the country, reaching the semi-finals of the National Cup, the last five of the National 10s, and winning the Plate competition at the National Sevens twice, and Letchworth girls featured