The Mead Community Primary School Sports Gala Evening 26 th April 2016
Welcome Welcome to our first Sports Gala Evening. Our aim is to celebrate the talents of our sporting children and alumni. These are children and young people who are competing at county level or above and showing a huge commitment to their respective sports. In this Olympic year we are thrilled to be joined by special guests Adele Nicoll, Joanna Miri and Pete Cracknell who will be sharing their experiences of competing at National and World level with our young athletes. We are also joined by our Gamesmakers, These are children who have been chosen to represent their school at our forthcoming Olympic Carnival, our annual community event, which this year is focusing on health and fitness. The Gamesmakers have applied to take on this role and shown a commitment to helping the whole community to take part and enjoy our Olympic Carnival. Thank you to the parents who have come with their sporting children and no doubt spend many hours supporting their children to compete as they travel to competitions and matches, as well as training every week. At The Mead we hugely value the contribution made by parents to their children’s success, both in their academic work and extra curricicular activities. We hope you will enjoy the evening and celebration of all the children and their successes. Please do take the time to let us know what you thought of the evening by emailing us at feedback@themead.wits.sch.uk. Thanks to Trowbridge Rugby Club for their lovely venue and to Friends of the Mead for their support in making this event possible. •
Adele Nicoll Team GB shot putter and discus thrower. She is currently ranked number 1 in the UK for her age and as one of the top athletes in Europe. She has represented both Great Britain, and Wales at a world and European level. She has 11 British Titles, is the under 17 British Record Holder, Welsh record holder at every age group apart from seniors, ranked number 1 in Wales seniors and number 3 in UK seniors. She was World Youth Championship Finalist in 2013, European Junior Finalist in 2015 and BBC WALES Junior Sports Personality of 2013.
Pete Cracknell Pete did gymnastics for fun, once or twice a week from 11 to 19. He started trampolining at University, again for fun. He started competing at 21, where he was typically the only competitor in 19+ novice category. He made the national circuit at 24 and took up Double Mini Trampoline (DMT). Pete competed in DMT nationally and made the England team at 26, followed by the GB team at 27. He has competed in 5 consecutive World Championships, the World Games and 2 European Championships. He was 2011 British Champion in DMT and 2013 World Team Bronze.
Joanna Miri Joanna is 21 years old, training full time at the University of Bath with the National Modern Pentathlon squad. Originally from South West Scotland, Joanna has competed at European and World Championships and World Cups.
Caleb Nash Caleb has been a member of the Bath and Wiltshire District school side for two seasons, the past year as the under 11s captain. Not just a capable sportsman, Caleb has shown the values and personality traits that the association values so dearly and has thus become an integral part of our activities. He has represented the District at both home and abroad travelling to places such as Lithuania, Germany, Belgium and Holland. His coach describes him as an ‘excellent role model for his peers ‘ ...
Harry Cottrell Harry started training at Staverton playing fields for Trowbridge Rangers in September 2012. This season his team played in the Rio Ferdinand cup getting to the final on 19 th March at Corsham FC and won it 9- 0. He has played in many games and tournaments over the past 3 ½ years. During Year 2 Harry was scouted by Reading football club and invited to train in their academy in Swindon. In October 2014 (Year 3) Harry was invited to Wiltshire FC trials at Beaversbrook sports facility in Calne. He was successful and made the U8s squad and trains in Chippenham every Friday night.
Jack Amor Jack started playing for Trowbridge Town U7s in November 2014, he began in the ‘C’ Team but by February 2015 Jack became the regular Goalkeeper for the ‘C’ Team and was then approached to become the ‘A’ Team Goalkeeper by the end of the 2014/15 season. During his first season with Trowbridge Town (2014/15), Jack was awarded the TTFC U7s Supporters Player award. Jack’s manager put his name forward for a trial at FC Wilts in October 2015. Jack successfully completed his trial in goal for FC Wilts and has since taken part in 3 tournaments for them.
Ross Mason Ross Mason has played football since the age of 4. He joined the FC Wiltshire development centre at age 7 and trained as a goal- keeper. In Spring 2015 he was selected to represent Bath & Wiltshire schoolboys at U10's. In March 2016, he was a member of the Bath & Wiltshire U10's team which made it to the quarter finals of a competition in Gothenburg, Sweden. This month Ross has been selected to play up a year group in goal for the Wiltshire under 11's team in the South West regional final of the English Schools FA Danone Nations Cup. Ross has just been selected to play cricket for Wiltshire U10's in the 2016 summer squad.
Will Stanton Will started playing football when he was 6 for local team Trowbridge Wanderers. His coach saw his potential and introduced him to the Swindon Town FC academy. He was given a professional contract when he was 8 years old. He continued to play with them for 8 years through to when he was 14. He had amazing opportunities, playing against all the Premiership clubs at their training grounds including Chelsea, Tottenham, Manchester United, Liverpool, Everton, Aston Villa, Fulham, Swansea to name but a few. He has now switched to playing rugby for Trowbridge and he also plays for St Laurence in a very successful team which have been invited by several public schools to play including a tournament at Milfield school. He still keeps his hand in playing football for Trowbridge Wanderers and is the captain of the school football team.
Lyndon Banfield Lyndon has been with FC Wilts since June 2014. FC Wilts are part of the Junior Premier League, a development centre providing training for gifted boys. Lyndon also plays for Melksham Town FC and trains three times a week and has games twice a week. During his time at FC Wilts Lyndon has been top goal scorer for both U10 and U11. The team travelled to Belgium and were finalists in the Hagueland Cup, won the Southwest Futsal Competition and were finalists at the grand final futsal championship in Birmingham where Lyndon was awarded gold award by the Junior Premier League. Over the last season Lyndon has been recognised by opposition teams gaining 3 gold and 3 silver awards. Lyndon has also this year trained with Swindon town and Southampton academies.
Megan Tate Megan started playing tag rugby at the age of 7 at Avonvale in Bath. In June 2013 she decided to attend a girls taster session run by Bath Rugby Ladies. For the next 18 months Megan trained and played for Bath under the guidance of 2 England Ladies Internationals. In March 2015 Megan joined Bradford on Avon’s Bobcat team. Megan’s form as a scum half was rewarded when she was selected for the Somerset County team in Sept 2015. Megan is regularly used by Bath Rugby to promote Women / Girls rugby and appeared in Visit England’s Rugby World Cup TV adverts in 2015.
Jake Nickerson Jake has been playing rugby for Trowbridge rugby club since 2012 was selected to play in the Wiltshire and Dorset County Squad. A year after playing for county he was then selected to train and play in the Bath academy U15’s squad. Jake lives and breathes rugby and his dream job would be to play professional rugby ultimately for Bath. In athletics Jake competed in the National Schools cross country and went on to represent Wiltshire in the final in Blackburn in 2015 coming 45 th out of the country for his age group. He also represented Wiltshire at the Gateshead national school final for triplejump coming 6 th for his age group. He also qualified to represent Wiltshire in pentathlon, coming 20 th . By qualifying for all three events he earned himself the title of the Ultimate Athlete Award.
Wilf Birkett-Wedes Wilf joined Bath Swords fencing club aged 8 and won his first trophy trophy that year in the foil at the Bath Annual Championships. He and his best friend Josh also competed that year in the Bath School Championship coming joint second. Their combined score meant the Mead came second overall. Wilf now fences epee and recently came first in his age group at Dunstan School. He also competed at Regional Level in January qualifying for the British Youth Championships which will be held in Sheffield on 30th April.
Rihana Ogborne Rihana has been dancing since she was 3 and competing since she was 7. She has qualified every year for the National Finals in Blackpool both as a solo performer and with her dance partner. She now teaches one night a week and gives 1-1 lessons and choreographs for students who wish to enter competition. She also performs at a number of charity fundraisers throughout the South of England.
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