On Saturday 28th June, over 100 children from Shrewsbury and Atcham participated in the Shropshire Youth Games at RAF Cosford. Teams were represented in 10 sports, putting in extremely good performances all round. Gaining 2nd place in the Netball, 4th in the boys and girls hockey, 2nd in the girls Tag rugby, 4th in the mixed Tag Rugby, 1st in the Table Tennis, 6th in the Badminton and 5th in the Rounders. Cheerleading was included in the games but it was not a competitive activity. Other activities were available during the day including, orienteering, wheel chair multi skills, face painting and many more activities that took place in the game village
Sean McCarthy said “I was very impressed by the standard of play throughout the whole day, all the participants who took part did their district proud. I was extremely pleased with the standard of play from the table tennis team, which enabled them to win the event, but more importunately all the children that competed on the day did their best and enjoyed the day. I would like to say a big thankyou to the people that came on the day to help out with the various teams and to those that helped in selecting teams prior to the games, without your help and assistance these type of events would not be possible”.
Teams were selected by a variety of methods such as, coaching from Shrewsbury Leisure staff, school festivals, activities organised by the Shrewsbury School Sports Partnership and current after school coaching programmes. The preparation prior to the youth games meant that nearly 200 children benefited from the Youth Games in some way.
Sean McCarthy, Sports Development Manager.
Tel. 01743 281573
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