Cumbria Youth Games
Cumbria Youth Games 2008
The Cumbria Youth Games was held on the 5th of July
in Carlisle, with events taking place at a number of venues,
including Sheepmount, St. Aidens school and the Sands
Centre. After a hard day of very tense competition the final
results were in. Allerdale had an extremely good result and
were tied in third place with Eden but after a very strong
performance Carlisle came first and won the Lonsdale Cup!
Allerdale's representatives at this years games were:
Year 3 & 4 Hockey - ASHFIELD JUNIOR SCHOOL, WORKINGTON
Year 5 & below mini Tennis - SILLOTH PRIMARY SCHOOL
Year 6 & below tag Rugby Union - KIRKBRIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL,
WIGTON
Year 6 & below Kwik Cricket - EAGLESFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL,
COCKERMOUTH
Year 6 & below netball -BECKSTONE PRIMARY SCHOOL
Year 6 & below Athletics - SEATON JUNIOR SCHOOL
Year 6 & Below Orienteering - mixed - highest scorers in the
school league
Year 6 Girls Football- SILLOTH PRIMARY SCHOOL
Year 6 Boys Football- SEATON JUNIOR SCHOOL
Under 12's mixed Basketball- MIXED TEAM
Well Done to all Allerdale's competitors who did an amazing job
and got us a great and well deserved result. Tournaments
and festivals for next years games will be starting in September so
it's never to early to start training!
For more information on the Games call Rebecca Stamper 01900
702711.
The Youth Games 2006
Allerdale Clinch it for a 3rd Year!!
The annual Cumbria Youth Games (CYG) is the
largest multi-sport participation event for young people in
Cumbria with each of the 6 districts taking part.
This year the Cumbria Youth Games were held
in Whitehaven on the 8th July with an even wider range
of sports involved and participants range from as young
as 6 years old up to 18 years of age. For the 3rd year
running Allerdale's sporting stars did it again and we came home
with the Lonsdale Trophy. A great day was had by all even though
the weather was not fantastic!
This year's events were as follows:
Orienteering
Athletics
Boccia Football
Kwik
Cricket Tennis
Basketball Rugby
Union
Netball
Badminton
Hockey
Tournaments for the selection of teams took place around
the Borough from January, kicking off with the Badminton Festival
which was new to the Games this year.
The following teams were winners in Allerdale and so went
to the games to represent the Borough.
- Badminton - Keswick A team won the tournament so
they will be heading to the Youth Games along with 2 girls and 2
boys from Nelson Thomlinson School who came a close second in the
tournament!
- Netball - Beckstone Primary School
- Mixed Tag Rugby - Thomlinson Junior School
- Girls Tag Rugby - Netherhall Specialist Sports
College
- Hockey - Thomlinson Junior School
- Tennis - Silloth School
- Cricket - Thomlinson Junior School
- Girls football - Nelson Thomlinson School and
Netherhall Specialist Sports College
- Boys Basketball - participants from a range of
schools
- Girls Basketball - participants from a range of
schools
- Orienteering - participants from a range of
schools
- Athletics - participants from a range of
schools
- Inclusive Athletics - Stainburn School
- Boccia - Stainburn School
There's only 51 weeks until the next games so
time to get training!
Cumbria Youth Games 2005
Allerdale brings home the Trophy for the second year
running!
In 2005 the Cumbria Youth Games was hosted in Barrow
on Saturday 2nd July. There were 14 sports that
took place this year which included orienteering, kwick
cricket, cycling, boccia and girls football. In the months leading
up to the games district tournaments and festivals were held in
which the winning teams went forward to represent
Allerdale at the Games.
This year Allerdale were the winners of the Lonsdale Trophy
for the second year running!
The teams that represented Allerdale this year were:
- Keswick School - Girls Rugby Union
- Stainburn School - Boccia
- Netherhall School - Cycling and Girls and Boys Basketball
- Thomlinson Junior School - Mixed Rugby Union, Netball and
Hockey
- Nelson Thomlinson School - Girls Football
- Mixed School teams were put in for - orienteering, kwick
cricket
Allerdale Hosts the 2004 Cumbria Youth Games
The 2004 Games were held for the 1st time in Allerdale at
Moorclose Leisure Centre, Cockermouth School and Netherhall
School, Specialist Sports College, Maryport on 26th
June. Approximately 900 young people participated
in 11 different competitive sports, those
being:
- Hockey
- Rugby Union
- Rugby League
- Tennis
- Kwick Cricket
- Netball
- Cycling
- Boccia
- Basketball
- Girls Football
- Athletics
Sport England fund the Cumbria
Youth Games with additional contributions from Cumbria County
Council and the six local authorities in Cumbria. Due
to Allerdale hosting this years Games, local sponsorship was
secured from The Cumberland Building Society, Tesco, Graves
(Cumberland) Ltd, Allerdale Borough Council, Allerdale Leisure Ltd,
Subway, Lakeland Willow Spring Water, and the Media Partner was the
West Cumberland Times and
Star.
Allerdale - Overall Winners!
The overall winners of the Cumbria Youth Games
was Allerdale. Cumbria Playing Fields Association donated the
Lonsdale Trophy to the Cumbria Youth Games which was accepted by 2
members of the Allerdale Boccia team on behalf of Allerdale.
Well done to all who
represented Allerdale in the Cumbria Youth
Games.
All Cumbria Youth Games photographs are
supplied courtesy of the Times & Star, Cumbria Newspapers Ltd
and are under Copyright.