First players, now coaches and a manager - Otago Touch continues to shine on the national stage.
Dunedin-based Rahul Das, Damian Burden and Toni Wall have been appointed to various national coaching and management positions.
Das has been named in charge of the men's Touch Blacks, Burden is assistant coach of the mixed Touch Blacks, and Wall will manage the men's team for a second consecutive year.
The news comes just a few weeks after six Otago players - Taylor Haugh, Rory van Vugt, Thomas Johnson, Dayna Turnbull, Phoebe Steele and Katie Brock - were named in Touch Blacks squads after impressing at a training camp at Labour Weekend.
Another training camp will be held in Auckland in January before the final squads are named for test series against Australia in April.
Das has coached the national under-15 mixed team and under-17 boys in the past, and said it was a surprise to be named in charge of the men's side.
''After doing the juniors, I thought I might be heading to the youth section,'' he said.
''So it seems to be a little bit of a surprise, but it looks like a good challenge and a good opportunity to step up.''
The appointment tops off a good year for Das, after he coached University A to its first Dunedin premier rugby title since 2010 in the past winter.
His next job with the Touch Blacks is to trim the squad from 20 to 16 in January before the team plays Australia in a three-match series in Auckland.
Burden, who will work alongside Kapiti Coast's Hika Pene with the mixed team, said he was ''very excited'' to fulfil a long-term goal.
''I didn't realise I was that close to getting the position,'' he said.
''I thought it could still be a wee way off. I'm thrilled to have gotten the opportunity at this stage.''
Burden and head coach Pene crossed paths in 2012 and 2013 at youth tournaments, and have kept in touch since, often bouncing ideas off each other.
Burden has coached national age-group teams for the past four years and is the current Otago open mixed and Kaikorai Valley College coach.
He coached Otago's under-21 mixed team to the province's first national title last year, just four years after first coaching at representative level.
''It's something I'm really proud of,'' he said.
''To see how our province has grown ... I guess it's been a process over quite a few years where we have built it back up from some really strong numbers to a bit of a powerhouse with our players and numbers.''
Wall, who managed the men's Touch Blacks at the World Cup in Australia earlier this year, said the appointment of three Otago volunteers at the national level was ''pretty awesome''.
She put it down to hard work from the Otago Touch Association, and was looking forward to being involved for another year.
''I love the whole high-performance sport side of it,'' she said.
''They aren't professional athletes, but they work really hard and put a lot of time, effort and money in.''
Wall has been involved with Otago touch for 12 years. She coaches the Otago Girls' High School year 9 A team, is a member of the Otago Touch Association board and manages Otago junior and senior teams at tournaments.
