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THE MAGAZINE FOR SPORT & LEISURE IN WELWYN HATFIELD. Welcome to this 3rd and Autumn edition of our WHSPAA-EaW magazine. What a great summer! Not only the weather, but the number and variety of activities locally for all ages. The amazing Festival of Sport at Stanborough with its Triathlon that brought in thousands including, not least our Borough Council’s Lead Member for Sport Councillor Darren Bennett and MP Grant Shapps. In the Herts Youth Games, in July after practising for weeks, our teams did us proud with two silver medals being in Badminton and Netball and two bronze medals in Fencing and Table Tennis. National Play Day, in August, with support from partners, was the biggest ever with

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over 5000 with over 100 volunteers working on the different activity stalls. Our cricket, tennis bowls and other outdoor sports clubs have on the whole had a good summer. Now we are moving into the cooler part of the year and while the outdoor sports are going from strength to strength as you can read, this edition will include a focus on ‘In from the Cold’ for those who like their sports indoors at this time of the year. Herts Sports Partnership are supporting our clubs, schools and coaches with a number of programmes, too. For example for head teacher’s there is the ‘Keeping the 2012 Legacy Alive in Hertfordshire’s Schools’, 27th September. Do have a look at their website: www.sportinherts.org.uk. Three of Welwyn Hatfield’s seven county councillors have kindly provided funding to help clubs in their division that need development support, these and their divisions, are: Lynn Chesterman, Welwyn Garden City South; Maureen Cook, Hatfield North ; Richard Smith, Welwyn. If your club is in any of these 3 Divisions and needs development funding please email me for further details and the County Councillors’ Fund application form. While we have heard from many people that ours is a great magazine that fills an important gap in communicating our local sport and physical activities, we would like to hear from you, what do you think? Dave Bartlett email: dave@bartlett1.plus.com Chairman WHSPAA

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Cllr Darren Bennett - sportsblog I would like to introduce myself to you all, as Cllr Darren Bennett, Lead Member for Sport, at Welwyn Hatfield Council. My role as Lead Member is to promote sport within the Borough, working with all the clubs, WHSPAA and Matt Rayner, Youth and Sports Officer at the Council. I am a keen sports person, having run 2 London Marathons, Belfast and Rotterdam as well, and also being an Arsenal supporter for

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my sins, I am very passionate to work with clubs, to promote sport within the Borough.

Welwyn Hatfield. Last year we saw a terrific spectacle in this Country, London 2012, an event which we will never again see in our lifetime. So I believe this is the time to build on this legacy.

I have 2 major projects which I would like to see within Welwyn Hatfield. A Welwyn Hatfield Half Marathon, to run alongside the Festival Sport, is the first event I wish to see.

If anyone else has further ideas of any other events you would like to see, you can contact me on the numbers and social media sites above.

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Clubs Forum Event Handside Partnership WHSPAA is to hold a Clubs Forum Event, 12th November, on two topics: 1. New! WHSPAA and Herts Uni: volunteers coaches and officials for your club: approx 15 minutes 2. Social Media Training for Sports Clubs: approx 2.5 hours The first is on our new programme with Herts Uni. and how clubs can benefit. The second will provides hands

on experience on Social Media use. The forum is open and ideal for all clubs, organisations and their officials. The venue is yet to be announced but any interested parties can contact us or sign up at sport@welhat.gov.uk. With a 7pm start please sign up today as there are limited spaces available. You can find out more by visiting www.welhatsports.org.uk.

SPORT AWARDS 2014 are coming! are sporting heroes, exceptional individuals, teams and coaches out there but we need you to tell the story and get them nominated.

The annual borough Sports Awards nominations open on the 25 October. Over the years there has been incredible support from you, our local sporting community but this year we want even more nominations in. We know there

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Mrs C. Wiper – School Sports Coordinator writes for eaW magazine A late entry to the summer edition of eaW magazine was just too late to be published, however the eaW team thought that you may want to read Mrs. Wiper’s account of the Handside Partnership Football Festival.

referee themselves and a round robin festival took place with every team playing against the other 3. The aim of the games was to make sure everyone was included and everyone had a chance to pass, shoot and score.

Just before the summer period eight students each from Stanborough, Applecroft and Lakeside met on the fields at Applecroft Primary School for an exciting festival of football.

The Year 5 children from Applecroft demonstrated some great skills and great understanding. The Year 9 children from Stanborough were very patient and gave sympathetic passes to every player. The Year 13 students from Stanborough organised their teams brilliantly and made sure everyone was happy. The Lakeside children had a great time and celebrated every pass, shot and goal with exuberance!

The students ranged from Year 5 to Year 13 and after a quick introduction they were mixed up and put into 4 teams. 2 games then took place using 2 pitches. The students managed to

We want the story of how that person goes the extra mile or how good your team really is or if your club deserves the title of club of the year we want to hear from you. We have 12 different awards including, school awards, coaching, volunteering, athlete and team awards. Nomination forms will be available from the WHSPAA website or visit www.welhat.gov.uk/sportawards2014.

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This time of year, as the days start to cool and people ease themselves back into their winter sports, our clinic is filled with a mix of acute sprains and strains from pre-season training, and longer term niggles that people had hoped might go away over the summer holidays but haven’t (for one reason or another)! Our summer months were kept busy by dozens of tennis players, triathletes and cyclists – and those whose recovery process involves much longer term rehabilitation, such as after knee or shoulder surgery. We’re looking forward to bringing eaW readers a regular column with advice on common

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Hatfield Town FC Manager Micky Nathan tells eaW magazine about the club’s plans for this season.

Hatfield Town Football Club Build for new 2013/14 season Hatfield Town FC manager Micky Nathan has relished taking charge of the team for the coming season. ‘The pre season has been a successful one with some fine performances over strong opposition. The club has had a massive overhaul. We’ve had to bring in a whole new squad plus a brand new Hatfield 1886 side that will play in the Herts County league for the first time’. ‘I think that Hatfield are a club that can go places this season, not just the first team, but

the 1886 side in the county league, the youth teams and the disability side. Every team associated with Hatfield Town FC should be proud to wear the shirt and wear it with pride.’ ‘Chairman Chris Maloney aims to make the club a credit to the town it represents, and a positive influence on the youth of Hatfield.’ Hatfield Town are an ambitious club whose plans for the future include the building of their own ground and advancement within the pyramid.

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SPORT • LEISURE • LIFESTYLE & FITNESS The Welwyn Wheelers signed off their season in September and now look ahead to the winter.

Welwyn Wheelers season update The last track racing meeting in the Welwyn Wheelers summer programme was run in mid September to finish off a successful season at the Gosling Sports Park velodrome. The track training sessions on Monday evenings and Saturday mornings have been well supported and the club coaches have worked hard to ensure that the riders benefit from the activity. The club made its annual trip to Assen in Holland in July where a large number of the clubs youth riders, well supported by parents and club coaches, took part in the 6 day Assen International Youth Tour. Racing takes place on closed roads with around 700 riders from a wide range of countries split into a number of age related categories with racing on various courses. The trip was enjoyed by

everyone and plans are already being made to attend the 50th Anniversary event in 2014. The Wheelers winter programme is now under way and one of main activities will be participating in cyclo-cross events in the local East and Central Leagues. Welwyn Wheelers are promoting an East Region Cyclo-cross event at Stanborough Park on Saturday October 5th which will see over 200 entries split into various age and ability groups racing in events ranging from 20 minutes for under 12 riders to one hour for the ‘elite senior’ riders. The winter programme also includes using road bikes on the track at Gosling Sports Park plus off road and road rides to keep riders fit and active through the winter. See the website for further details www. welwynwheelers.org.uk

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After the Olympics last year and recent Euro Championships are more people taking to hockey?

WGC Hockey Club see upturn in new takers to the sport After the success of Team GB at last year’s Olympic Games and with the recent European Championships, the game of hockey has been introduced to a whole new audience and also rekindled former enthusiasts’ love of the sport after enjoying daily TV coverage for 2 weeks.

Havilland campus in Hatfield with competitive games every Saturday throughout the season.

Here at Welwyn Garden City hockey club, we are always keen to welcome new players to our club whether they are getting back into the wonderful game or picking up a hockey stick for the first time.

The club benefits from a strong youth section with training held at the De Havilland campus every Sunday morning. It’s the perfect opportunity to get the whole family involved in a sport which everyone will enjoy. Student memberships are also available as well as a discounted membership rate for goal keepers.

With male and female teams suitable for all abilities, we’re sure you will enjoy trying to re-create some of the skills seen performed by the British team. If you are interested in coming along to have a go, we train every Wednesday at the De

We are especially looking for new members for our ladies section of the club so if you are looking for a fun and social way to keep fit, please get in touch!

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What inspired you to open the opening of Platypus all those nearly 50 years ago?

The Platypus Swimming Club was founded in 1966 to enable disabled people and volunteer helpers of all ages and abilities including non-swimmers from the town of Hatfield and the surrounding area to enjoy the benefits of swimming in safety and privacy.

An awareness of the benefits of water therapy exclusively for the use of people with disabilities. This led to a small group of very enthusiastic and dedicated people taking the opportunity to form the Club in 1966 when the Hatfield R.D.C. agreed to make the new Hatfield Swim Centre available for two dedicated hours each week.

eaW meets with the team from Platypus to dive a little deeper, and find out a little more information about the club and the stories it has to tell. Why should people choose Platypus?

What have been the success stories?

Members of all abilities including non-swimmers are encouraged to have fun and enjoy the benefits of swimming in safety and privacy. Members range from very young children with congenital and mental disabilities to car accident, stoke-victims and 80-year olds and above suffering simply from the effects of age.

Too numerous to mention but three come to mind: Some non-swimmers have learnt to swim and now attend competitive galas increasing their self-esteem.

For the more competitive members the Club actively competes in several galas at local, regional and National level

One of our members fell out of bed at a local hospital, broke his neck and was told he would never walk or swim again. Now, a few years later and with lots of encouragement, help and coaching, he is able to walk short

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Are you interested in the CoachMark Bursary Scheme? The recent Girls Get Sporty event at the Hertfordshire Sports Village saw the launch of the latest round of the CoachMark Bursary scheme, which helps with the costs of coaching courses. distances and swim on his back completely unaided. A young man in his early thirties who suffered extensive brain injury leaving him impaired vision in one eye and left side paralyses has shown great progress. 2-years ago he was the NASCH (National Association of Swimming Clubs for the Handicapped) 4-Lengths Gold medallist at the Annual UK National Finals Gala held at Leamington Spa. What does the club stand for? Inclusion in an enjoyable, healthy swimming activity including some who could feel marginalised in a normal general

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Less than 40% of coaches are female, and in many sports that figure is even lower. This inequality in the gender of sports coaches is welldocumented and the reasons for it are complex. Finance is just one of the issues, and coaching courses can be expensive – it costs over £300 just to qualify in some sports! The CoachMark Bursary pays

half of course costs (up to a maximum of £500) and, thus far, nearly £7,000 has been paid to 26 coaches in 15 different sports and physical activities. The CoachMark Bursary is run by Herts Sports Partnership (HSP). Normally, the bursary is open to all coaches - male or female! However the Herts Coaches Association, who work closely with HSP, identified women coaches as a priority, and a ‘female only’ round of the bursary is proving to be popular. To find out more about the CoachMark Bursary, go to www.coachingherts.org.uk.

Hatfield Bowls Club Hatfield Bowls Club is a combined indoor and outdoor green, located at 1 College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9PJ. We are known for our friendliness, and have a mixed membership of ladies and men. You can play in matches which are either green friendly, or cup fixtures in ladies, men’s and also mixed teams, or just roll up on the greens. There are also national, county, district, and club competitions in which to play if you wish. We welcome new members of any age, and coaching

is available. And of course, bowling is good exercise. We also have a strong social membership including a darts section. Social events are organised throughout the year, so you may use the club’s facilities if you just want to have somewhere to have a drink in pleasant surroundings. For more information, please contact either Richard Lush on 01707 267606 or Pat Pike on 01707 262286. Alternatively, just call into the club any evening after 6.30pm to speak to our bar stewards Alun and Shena.

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GIRLS GET SPORTY Coaches and players inspire girls to get sporty! During late August more than 100 young girls, aged from 1115 joined experienced players and coaches from Hertfordshire Mavericks Netball Club, Arsenal Ladies Football Club and Saracens Women’s Rugby Club for a day of sporting fun, skills and games. This exciting event, a new initiative specifically designed to encourage girls to take up a new sport in a fun and inspirational environment, was held at the Hertfordshire Sports Village. Almost 40 coaches and players, many of whom are involved in

their sports at national level, led demonstrations, held skills sessions and took part in question and answer forums before each team mascot competed in an finale race! Aresenal Ladies Gunnersaurus was victorious! The free Girls Get Sporty event attracted girls from across the county and was organised in partnership with the three clubs, the Herts Sports Partnership and Hertfordshire Sports Village, the venue for the day. The girls had a fantastic day and were presented with a souvenir photograph to take away as a memento of the day. Jane Shewring of the Herts Sports Partnership was delighted with the event’s success and says about the day, ‘It’s great to see so many youngsters involved in

these three sports and we are confident that many of them will continue to play one or more of them in the future. With so many high quality coaches and players involved today, we really hope that the youngsters will be inspired and take away with them the belief that they can enjoy, improve and achieve through sport.’

teams sports, the chance to be exposed to a number of different skills required in the three sports, which they can take and develop within school and their general lives.

A Hertfordshire Coaching Bursary Scheme launched during the day. The scheme is managed by the Herts Sports Partnership and specifically encourages women to take up sports coaching and support existing female coaches to develop their skills. Women are currently under-represented among the sports coaching community and this scheme aims to go some way to redress this imbalance. Arsenal Ladies were extremely excited to be apart of the Girls Get Sporty Day at the University of Hertfordshire, alongside Saracen’s Women’s rugby and Mavericks Netball. It was great to see such a range of ages from the girls that took part in the day and all of whom were very enthusiastic throughout the day, which made our jobs of coaching them all very enjoyable.

Arsenal Ladies thoroughly enjoyed being part of the day and we all hope that the girls who took part either join a club, continue to play recreationally or at the very least had fun meeting new people and being active and healthy. If you know any girls that want to try a new sport or are interested in coaching contact the Herts Sports Partnership about opportunities to join local sessions, clubs and courses on 01707 281201 or www.sportinherts. org.uk.

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New Season – New Home for Welwyn Lacrosse Welwyn Lacrosse Club will be starting the new season with both a new home ground and a new training venue. The Club will be playing their home games at Sherrardswood School in Welwyn , with mens games taking place on Saturday afternoons and womens matches taking place on Sundays. The Club’s former training venue at the College Lane Hertfordshire University Site was

lost to redevelopment during the summer. However the Club have managed to transfer to the Sports Village at the De Havilland Site in Hatfield, although training will now take place on a Tuesday night. The Club will be running three mens teams in the South East Mens Lacrosse League and one ladies team in the South East Womens league, as well a junior boys and girls teams. ‘We are able to offer lacrosse

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for pretty much all levels for men – from international standard in our first team to complete beginner in our third team’ explained Hamish Tiley, first team captain. Womens’ captain, Sam Wisbey is keen to encourage anyone who is interested to come and have a go at the game - ‘we have a mixture of experienced and novice players – but whatever the level we want to make sure our training sessions and matches are fun to take part in’.

If you want to find out more about the Club, visit our web site at www.pitchero.com/clubs/ welwynlacrosseclub, which has contact details for team captains and coaches.

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SPORT • LEISURE • LIFESTYLE & FITNESS 13 year old fund raiser Poppy Young tells eaW magazine about her fund raising and new venture of writing children’s books.

Poppy Young and Heli the Rescue Helicopter 13 year old Poppy Young from Welwyn Garden City is one young lady that has already made significant steps forward in the world of fund raising for her beloved Herts Air Ambulance as well as dedicating her spare time into writing children’s books. Poppy told eaW magazine, ‘I love raising funds for my local Herts Air Ambulance Helicopter as the job that they do is fantastic. They ﬂy several times a day in order to help rescue injured people and help take them to hospital and the Herts Air Ambulance is able to reach anywhere within the county of Hertfordshire in just 20 minutes. It ﬂies at 150mph and is only 8 minutes from a hospital!’ Poppy goes on, ‘The work that the helicopter and its crew do can be the difference between life and death and even though

I have never needed the help of my local Herts Air Ambulance it is great knowing that they are only a phone call away. The important life saving medical equipment that they carry means that they are like a ﬂying hospital A&E department. The amazing work that they do is only possible due to donations raised by people like you and me.’ With Poppy keen to find new ways of raising money for The Herts Air Ambulance, including cake sales, carved pumpkins, sponsored runs and even school fund raising, Poppy has now embarked on writing books about the Herts Air Ambulance called Heli the Rescue Helicopter.

Poppy (left) collecting her Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Certificate look to publish one of Poppy’s stories online so please look out for further details sometime soon. Poppy concluded, ‘I have also been very lucky and was

awarded the Diana Award as a Champion fund raiser where I had to go up to Canary Wharf to collect my certificate. Also, last year I was awarded a Queens Diamond Jubilee Award from my local council.’

So far Poppy has written 9 different stories and has plans for many more. eaW magazine will

Hertfordshire Summer

School Games During the summer month of June, winning teams from the Welwyn Hatfield Partnership attended the Hertfordshire Summer School Games finals at Oaklands College in Smallford. Before the games started the competitors were entertained by a dance group and were addressed by an inspirational young athlete. The School Games oath was read out by the Hertfordshire Sports Apprentice team before the teams were dismissed to their competitions. All the teams that represented the partnership did extremely well and the Partnership picked up a gold and two bronze medals on the way too!! Springmead School represented the partnership in Mixed U11 Kwik Cricket. St. Michael Woolmer Green took part in the QuickSticks and the Mixed U11 Tag Rugby competition. Harwood Hill had teams in the Mixed U11 Tri Golf, Mixed U11 Tag Rugby competition and Mixed U9 Mini Tennis

competition. Lakeside competed in the SLD U19 Swimming competition on the day too at the University of Hertfordshire. The Partnerships secondary schools were very successful with Onslow fencing team achieving bronze medal position in the Mixed U15 Go Fence competition. Onslow U15 girls Volley squad picked up a bronze medal in the Volleyball competition.

Sports Leaders support Our Lady’s Primary School Our Lady’s Catholic Primary School deserved recognition at the end of June as the whole school celebrated with an open air mass followed by an alfresco lunch.

The medal total for the year is up on last years with Welwyn Hatﬁeld achieving four gold, 1 silver and three bronze medals.

In the afternoon they organised activities on the school field. Sports Leaders from Years 9, 10, 12 and 13 at Stanborough delivered four activities; including relay races, parachute games and mini athletics. 200 children were involved in these activities. It was quite a spectacle to behold seeing so many children active and happy.

eaW would like to congratulate the teams that represented the partnership in all three county competitions and look forward to next year.

Continuing the celebrations, six keen Year 9 sports leaders delivered a multi activity carousel to 120 children as part of a project sponsored by Sports

For the second year running Stanborough School are County champions in the U15 Boys Volleyball competition battling their way to gold medal position, well done!!

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Leaders UK and Asda. The Year 9 students have been planning and organising this event for several weeks; choosing the activities, designing certificates and liaising with Asda who provided the refreshments – snacks and drinks to keep everyone going. Two special guests also attended. Amy Wareing (a Paralympic sprinter) and Daniel Gardner (an Olympic pole vaulter). They both spoke to the students and helped with the delivery of the activities. The Year 9 students worked very hard all afternoon making the event a huge success. Competitors praised were Kayleigh Fox, Amy Cross, Lily Peterkin, Natalie Warner, Tom Hamer and Alex Harrison.

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