THE P&G SURREY YOUTH
GAMES
21 & 22 JUNE
2008
SPORTING YOUNGSTERS RACE
TO THE P&G SURREY YOUTH GAMES!
2,300 competitors from all over Surrey gathered together in Guildford and Woking last weekend (21 & 22 June), alongside Great Britain Sporting Champions Jo Sarjant (basketball) and Cathy Gilliat-Smith (hockey), to take part in the county's largest youth sporting festival, the P&G Surrey Youth Games 2008.
Young people aged from 7 to 15 years old
competed for medals and trophies across 14 different sports,
representing the 11 districts and boroughs in which they live or go
to school. High quality local facilities were
used for the 12th staging of the annual multi-sports
event. Football, hockey, squash, netball and
High-5 netball (a 5-a-side version of the game for primary
age children), tennis and rugby competitions were held on
the magnificent courts and pitches at the University of Surrey's
Varsity Centre; Futsal (a version of indoor football), badminton
and fencing were staged at Woking Leisure Centre and Park with, for
the first time this year, Swimming at Woking Pool in the Park;
athletics, basketball, boccia and judo were held at the
award-winning Guildford Spectrum.
Fencing, futsal, swimming and High-5
netball were demonstration sports at this year's Games but teams
taking part in all other events scored points depending on their
final positions. The annual Overall Borough Trophy was awarded to
the Borough with the highest points total (each boroughs score
calculated using its highest score from eight different sports plus
one disability event) and this year Spelthorne achieved this
honour.
Congratulations
to Spelthorne (87 points) who won the Overall Borough
Trophy and to Woking (81 points) and Elmbridge (76
points) who finished in second and third place respectively. These
positions reflect the consistency of their teams performances
across the range of sports.
The SCPFA Fair Play Award went to Mole
Valley.
To view and purchase photographs
taken by one of the official photographers at this years
event, please visit www.jamesprickett.co.uk
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Borough
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Elmbridge
|
6
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4
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2
|
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Epsom & Ewell
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2
|
2
|
4
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Guildford
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2
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8
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3
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Mole Valley
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1
|
3
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5
|
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Reigate & Banstead
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4
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3
|
1
|
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Runnymede
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1
|
1
|
1
|
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Spelthorne
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3
|
7
|
6
|
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Surrey Heath
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
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Tandridge
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
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Waverley
|
1
|
0
|
5
|
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Woking
|
5
|
2
|
6
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Click here for the full medals breakdown
The P&G Surrey Youth Games have
continued to grow and develop since 1997 with long-standing support
from Sport England and continued support of Procter &
Gamble.
One of the main aims of the Games is to
encourage young people to develop their sporting skills and promote
physical activity as well as fair play in sport.
Over 3,500 young people have attended local coaching sessions over
the past two months in preparation for the Games and, for many of
the players selected, the event is their first experience of
countywide competition. It is hoped that this experience will
encourage all those involved to continue playing at one of the many
quality local sports clubs.
As Surrey's largest multi-sport event,
the Games provide a showcase for Surreys future young sporting
champions. As always the standard of play was extremely high and
Great Britain Basketball player Jo Sarjant and Great Britain
hockey player Cathy Gilliant-Smith, who attended the event
along with many other local dignitaries, may well have seen a 2012
Olympian or Paralympian taking part!
AYoung people attending this years
P&G Surrey Youth Games, had the opportunity to meet two
Sporting Champions: Great Britain
basketball player Jo Sarjant and Great Britain hockey player Cathy
Gilliant-Smith. Sport England's Sporting
Champion scheme brings world-class athletes face-to-face with young
people to inspire and motivate them to participate in
sport.
At the age of about 14 years Jo was
playing county basketball. From there she was
picked for the England U15 Basketball squad and attended a
tournament in France. She then played for the U16, U18 and at 17
years old, was selected for the England National Senior squad and
achieved her first cap. In September 2006, a Great Britain squad
was selected to begin the journey towards the Olympic Games 2012.
Jo was selected for this and played
against Luxemburg, Bosnia, Ireland and Portugal.
Cathy played hockey in county and
regional age groups, and for Sevenoaks Hockey Club before going to
Loughborough University where she began playing National
League.
In 2000 she made her England U21 debut and in 2003 progressed to the Senior side where to date, she has 54 caps and has recently made her Great Britain debut. Career highlights so far include a bronze medal at the 2005 Europeans, bronze at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and gold at the World Cup Qualifying tournament.
In 2000 she made her England U21 debut and in 2003 progressed to the Senior side where to date, she has 54 caps and has recently made her Great Britain debut. Career highlights so far include a bronze medal at the 2005 Europeans, bronze at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and gold at the World Cup Qualifying tournament.
We are very grateful to Sporting
Champions for organising such fantastic role models to visit this
year's Surrey Youth Games.
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2008
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