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In this issue we talk to one of the torch bearers as well as Olympians past and present.

Tina Cook is an eventing hopeful with royal connections, while Duncan Goodhew, the subject of our Big Interview, is a swimming gold medallist and a legend of his sport whose journey to glory began in Sussex. He gives us an insight into life at an Olympiad and shares with us his hopes for London 2012 and its legacy.

We also look ahead to the testimonial match granted by Brighton & Hove Albion to Sussex Sport columnist Michel Kuipers. As well as talking about his big game against Barclays Premier League new boys Reading, the Crawley Town goalkeeper tells us the highlights of his ten years with Brighton and what it will mean to him to step out at the Amex Stadium.

We also meet the Albion’s new chief executive, the vastly-experienced Paul Barber, and hear about two Sussex referees who will be officiating in the Football League for the first time next season..

Our columnists will get you thinking about drugs in cycling and whether American sports are to be taken seriously, and we introduce you to a sport from the other side of the world that we were amazed to find being played in Sussex.

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Dave Brayley 7 Michel Kuipers Testimonial 8 Paul Barber 10 Men In Black, II 13 Cotts’ Column 15 Luke Wright SCCC 16 Preston Nomads 19 London Calling: Charlotte Kerwood 21 Tina Cook 22 Carrying A Torch 25 Paralympics: Will Bayley 26 The Big Interview: Duncan Goodhew 28 Goodhew School Visit 33 The Punter 35 Phil Bell 37 Mr Angry 39 Lindfield Golf Club 40 Adam Lewis Fitness 43 Aussie Rules 44 A-Z of Clubs, Leagues and Sports 46

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Our hard-hitting columnist on suspicion, doubts and whispers in the world of elite cycling

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urrently, there is a 40-year-old athlete who has been banned from competing in the triathlon due to allegations made against him that took place 10 years ago. You may have heard of him: his name is Lance Armstrong.

Cancer survivor Armstrong is a hero to most but a villain to many. Hero because of the way he redefined his sport, winning an unprecedented seven Tours de France, and villain because of the no-nonsense way that he achieved his success, running roughshod over cycling’s establishment and bringing a brashness to the sport that did not sit easily with the laissez-faire approach of European cyclists.

assume that the one who was at the very top of the tree was doing nothing.

That may well be a sensible assumption, but until evidence is produced, it remains just that: an assumption. It’s interesting that the team mate named as the whistle blower on Armstrong is one Floyd Landis, who lied repeatedly about doping before finally being found guilty himself. Not the most credible of witnesses, I’d suggest.

The timing of the allegations, coming as they do just before the Grand Depart of this year’s Tour de France have, yet again, thrown a cloak of suspicion back over the whole peloton, and that unfair air of suspicion means I have the greatest sympathy for one of cycling’s

This year has been simply incredible: winner of the Paris-Nice, Tour de Romandie and Criterium du Dauphine, the first cyclist ever to achieve that feat in a single season, and this form has led to the status of favourite for the annual trip around France. But along with his success have come the whispers…. just how has Wiggins suddenly become so good? Where has this form come from?

And I hate it. I hate that Wiggins now comes under suspicion because he is very good at his sport, in much the way that I hate that Armstrong has to defend himself because he was very good in his sport. Cyclists are subject to the most stringent anti-doping testing of any sport, and Wiggins and Armstrong have

Wiggins has morphed from top Olympic indoor cyclist into record breaking road cyclist in just a matter of years But whether he is a hero or villain, he has always been surrounded with doubt and whispers. That doubt resurfaced again recently when the USADA [United States Anti-Doping Agency] issued an extremely detailed document that outlined a myriad of doping charges against Armstrong. No smoke without fire? Maybe. The document has led to Armstrong’s suspension as a triathlete whilst the investigation is ongoing.

Innocent until proven guilty? Apparently not in the world of the USADA. The main premise of the document appears to be that in the years of Armstrong’s dominance, “everybody” was doing something, so it’s naïve to

greatest current exponents, Britain’s Bradley Wiggins.

Wiggins has morphed from top Olympic indoor cyclist into record breaking road cyclist in just a matter of years. Since Dave Brailsford and Team Sky decided to throw their significant weight behind delivering a British Tour de France Champion with Wiggins at its core, this most idiosyncratic of cyclists has flourished beyond, probably, his own wildest dreams. Through hard work, his star has risen in recent years with a fourth place finish in the Tour in 2009, and a leading challenge last year, until a broken collar bone put paid to his hopes.

never failed a single test. Yet still they are suspected.

I abhor drugs in sport, but I adore triumph in it. Unless people have hard, incontrovertible truth then they should keep their silence until it can be proved, unequivocally, beyond any doubt whatsoever. The whispers about Wiggins should stop and so should the persecution of Armstrong.

However, there is a proviso. If, at some point in the future, transgressions by Armstrong, Wiggins or any rider for that matter are proved, then I would be first in place to throw the stone. Drug cheats should be removed from all sport, but, without proof, so should the whispers.

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Thanks Michel Kuipers testimonial match to be held at the stadium he fought for

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lbion Legend Michel Kuipers’ testimonial will take place at the Amex Stadium on Tuesday 7th August 2012, with Premier League Reading providing the opposition.

The Dutch goalkeeper, who moved to Crawley Town two seasons ago, is expected to play a part in the match, making an overdue first appearance at the stadium he helped to fight for in his decade as Brighton’s last line of defence.

With Albion’s season due to kick off a week after the match, Gus Poyet is likely to field a full-strength side. Brian McDermott has also promised to bring a strong Reading squad to the Amex, with their Premier League campaign starting eleven days after the testimonial.

Kuipers said: “Having been with the Albion as a player for virtually the entire time we were at the Withdean, the dream for us all was to get to the new stadium. I am proud to have been part of that journey to realise the dream, alongside the fans, and I am delighted

Kuipers made his Albion debut away to Southend United on 12th August 2000 after joining the club on a free transfer from Bristol Rovers in June that year.

He moved up the A23 to Crawley Town ten years and three days later, having played his final match for the club at home to Norwich City at Withdean on 13th February 2010.

In the 284 league and cup starts between those games came two championships and another promotion via the play-offs along with plenty of memorable wins, such as the 1-0 home victory over Chesterfield on 1st May 2001 that clinched the League Two title and signalled that the club was on the way back. His own most memorable game was the 2008 Carling Cup tie against Manchester City, Kuipers saving City’s final kick in the penalty shootout after a 2-2 draw to allow Matt Richards to send the Seagulls through.

“The highlights were winning League Two and then League One as champions, and later going up to the

“The game is an important part of the pre-season build up, so I am grateful that GUS POYET is giving me the opportunity to play for the club again” to have the chance to play in front of the Albion fans at the Amex.

“I would like to thank Gus Poyet. The game is an important part of the preseason build up, so I am grateful that he is giving me the opportunity to play for the club again! I would also like to thank Brian McDermott. He has done a great job at Reading to get them into the Premier League, and I appreciate him bringing his team down to Brighton to play.

“Thanks must also go to current chairman Tony Bloom, for granting me the opportunity to play the testimonial at the Amex, and also to his predecessor Dick Knight, who was my chairman for most of my time as a player at the club. Finally, a big thank you to my committee, for all their hard work and help in organising the game.”

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Championship through the play-offs,” he said. “Those were achievements over a whole season, but as an individual game, I would say the best was Manchester City in the Carling Cup, saving Michael Ball’s penalty, their final one, to knock out the richest club in the world.

“Our penalties were fantastic, and theirs were really good as well. I was trying to read the body shape of the penalty takers and I saved the final one.

I think it was probably the most exciting game that we played at Withdean in twelve years.

“Another game of note was the home game against Bristol City [on Easter Monday 2002] in which we allbut-clinched promotion to the Championship. After I’d made loads of saves and with the score at 1-1, Lee

Steele popped up at the far post to score an injury time diving header and sent all the supporters, most of them already right next to the pitch on the running track, into wild celebrations.”

The performance he rates as his best came before the Sky Sports cameras in a Championship match away to Wolves. His save from Kenny Miller is shown before every match at the Amex in a sequence of highlights that puts him firmly among club legends such as Peter Ward, Bobby Zamora, Gary Stevens and Jimmy Case.

“Bobby chipped Matt Murray to put us 1-0 up, and after that we were defending for our lives,” he recalled. “One save I made has been described as the best save in the history of the Albion. I had to go down to my right to block a shot and the ball came out to Kenny Miller. I had to get up quickly, get along the whole length of the goal and throw myself across to my left.

“I got my hands to his shot and as the ball went up in the air and I fell to the ground, it magically fell straight down and I managed to catch it while I was on the floor – and then get up and start an attack. It was one of the best saves I’ve made, certainly. They use it in the sequence of clips before the kick-off at the Amex, which makes me very proud.

It’s great that I’m among those big names. It gives me an emotion that you can’t get from anything else.”

The Brighton fans will relish one last chance to salute Kuipers and belt out their favourite chant about ‘the former Dutch Marine’ at the game. “I’m so grateful to the fans for all the support that they have given me over the years,” he said. “They have been the twelfth man in many games where we really had our backs against the wall but managed to get away with a good result.

They gave us the confidence, motivation and belief to perform and get results.”

He also won their respect for his part in the struggle to gain planning permission for the new stadium. “I’ve always tried to raise the profile of the club and the need for the stadium, joining in with the petitions, and the marches along the seafront, raising awareness of that great cause. When we

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finally heard the news that we had got permission to go ahead, it was fantastic.

“One of the best days of my life was walking out at the Amex with my son before the Tottenham Hotspur game, seeing all the Albion supporters in the stands - the dream had come true.

Playing there in my testimonial will be very emotional – something I’ve looked forward to for over 12 years. I’m really happy that I will be able to play at the Amex in front of the supporters that I had a journey with, to realise that dream.”

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“The Commitment Here Is Off The Chart” Albion’s potential the draw for new chief executive, he tells Nick Szczepanik

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aul Barber was introduced as Brighton & Hove Albion’s new chief executive in a blaze of publicity last month. And now he hopes to disappear.

Barber, 45, has been commercial and marketing director of the Football Association and executive director of Tottenham Hotspur as well as chief executive of Vancouver Whitecaps. But although he was described by Albion chairman Tony Bloom as “a Premier League signing,” he knows that the arrival the very next day of a player of top flight quality, former Manchester United goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak, is more the sort of new face that gets supporters’ pulses racing.

“The guy in the suit, in my opinion, should be the least important in terms of the fans’ interest and attention,” Barber told Sussex Sport. “The 11 guys on the pitch should be the story. If things go wrong then clearly I have a responsibility. But it’s my job to make sure that things go right.

Bloom is delighted to have secured his services. “Paul has great credentials - a huge amount of experience and great contacts and we’re very excited to have

Barber, a boyhood Spurs supporter who says he is now a firm Brighton fan, had gained inside knowledge of Albion’s recent history while at the FA and knew enough about the club’s turnaround since the exile at Gillingham in 1997 to know that he wanted be involved.

“When the headhunters first called me, they spoke of a football club that was ambitious, up-and-coming, well-run, with

Barber, a boyhood Spurs fan who says he is now a firm Brighton fan, had gained inside knowledge of Albion’s recent history while at the FA. him here. We used an excellent executive search company to assist us and ended up with a hugely long list of potential candidates - we were quite inundated.

Paul was the outstanding candidate among many, many outstanding candidates. I was a bit surprised by how many quality applicants there were, which is a testament to what so many people have done here at the club.”

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a great fan base and fantastic facilities,” he said. “When you put that combination together you immediately become very attracted to the opportunity.

When I asked who it was and they said ‘Brighton’, it became a very easy decision for me.

“People have asked me why I didn’t go back into the Premier League but I think there’s a perception lag about

Brighton. The club is much bigger than most people outside the area realise. The tenth-highest season-ticket sales in the country - a lot of Premier league clubs would like that.

“I’d been following the Brighton story for some time. Way back when I was at the FA, David Davies - one of my friends and colleagues - became engaged in the process. He took a big public position on it, how important it was that we didn’t lose a club in a city and catchment area the size of Brighton. It became one of those compelling stories that you had to keep in touch with.

“Derek Chapman has lent me some books, and I thought I had a good understanding of what happened, but the twists and turns, and the setbacks that were overcome, were more than you ever realised. The investment that has been made and the commitment that has been made here is off the chart. I don’t think there is a club that has been through quite as much in the last 15 years as this one.

“Coming into the club now it’s nice to have some knowledge of that but it’s also about getting to know about the

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club from the inside out, so the next few weeks is going to be about talking to people, listening and getting a real sense of what the club’s about, what it stands for and what people expect here.

“The potential here is great, with foundations to take the club forward, a terrific board of directors, so a lot of the hard work has already been done. My job is to take it a little further forward and see where we can go. The best way to attract the best players is to have a football club that people know and respect. Gus and the coaching staff have done a great job on the field, our job is to make it as easy as possible for them to win matches.”

Barber knows Poyet from the Uruguayan’s time at Tottenham, and although he does not expect to be involved in the playing side - Poyet, Bloom and head of football operations David Burke will handle player

recruitment and contracts - he is looking forward to working with him once more, and ensuring that the grass never appears greener elsewhere for a manager who has regularly been linked with jobs in the Premier League.

“Gus is a great guy,” he said. “I remember him at Spurs as a player and then a coach - the life and soul of the party. He is very highly-respected by players and fans but also the football community. He acted as a real catalyst at Spurs in bringing everyone together.

The fear that he might leave is a sign of progress. Of course we want to keep our best people, that’s true in every business. If you keep progressing and they keep enjoying it, there’s no reason for them to go anywhere else.”

That means maximising the club’s income to give Poyet a playing budget that will match his ambitions, while staying solvent and keeping to new

financial restrictions on how much of a club’s turnover can be spent on player wages. Barber said: “Financial fair play rules mean that clubs will have to work hard to generate as much revenue as they can to justify the spending on players that people expect, and which you have to do in order to progress. So there will be pressure on us to keep building the business. “‘Progress’ is a word I hear around the club a lot and my job is to continue that progress - bring in the best commercial deals to bring in the money we need to buy the best players. Then there’s the stadium and the training ground so that the product the fans see is the best it can be. What the football club does behind the scenes is all geared to helping what goes on out on the pitch. What happens out there is the most important thing.” SXS

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Michel Kuipers testimonial Tuesday 7th August At The AMEX www.seagulls.co.uk

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Men In Black - two Sussex Officials make the big time

By Oliver Benbow

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s the footballing season comes to a close, most football enthusiasts and indeed most football referees will use the summer period to relax, recover and most likely overindulge. But for two local referees the close season is no time to put their feet up, as they begin preparation for what will be the biggest test of their career to date.

Tim Robinson and Harry Lennard were both on the receiving end of phone calls in May, congratulating them on their promotion to the National List of officials in England.

Tim, a teacher from Bognor Regis, was promoted to the National List Referees, meaning that, next season, he will be refereeing Football League fixtures

been promoted; I was in absolute shock.

Even though I knew I was in with a shout as I’d been marked well throughout the season, you never really expect the call to come.

“I’d worked tirelessly for this moment and I was obviously delighted, but my immediate thoughts were, ‘I want to be good at that level now.’ It’s like I’m starting all over again and I just want to be the best assistant that I can be.”

Both Harry and Tim began refereeing at a young age and Harry paid tribute to the advice and guidance he has been given over the years. “When I was studying at the University of Leeds, I was assigned a mentor, Martin Atkinson, who happened to be a Premier League assistant and a Panel Referee,” he said.

“I’m absolutely over the moon to be promoted to the Premier League, It was a surreal moment being told.” for the first time. Tim is just the second Sussex-based official, along with Dave Phillips, to be refereeing on the Football League next season. Not only has Tim worked hard on his own officiating, but he has been keen to pass on his knowledge to help others, coaching promising young referees in the Sussex FA Referees Academy and last year as a coach at the South East Referee Development Group.

Harry, a police officer from Brighton & Hove, was promoted to the Select Group of Assistant Referees, meaning he is now rated as one of the top assistants in the country and next season, will be running the line in the most watched league in the world, the Barclays Premier League.

We caught up with Harry, to find out a little more about what it means to fulfil a lifelong ambition and how he made his way up the ranks of officiating.

“I’m absolutely over the moon to be promoted to the Premier League,” he said. “It was a surreal moment being told. I was up in my loft doing some boarding and the phone went. It was Paul Rejer (Select Group Assistant Referee Manager) letting me know I’d

“So from the age of 18-21 I was invited to nearly all of his Premier League games, which was fantastic.’

“A couple of years later, Martin put me in contact with Peter Kirkup, a FIFA Assistant Referee who has just been out assisting at Euro 2012. Since meeting Peter, my whole approach to assisting has changed. He’s helped me tremendously and is now a really good friend of mine, I can’t thank him enough.

“People often ask why I officiate.

But it’s simple really and I’m sure most officials will agree - no matter what level of football you referee at, whether it’s on the Brighton Sunday League or in a Playoff Final, you get that buzz and it makes it all worthwhile.” SXS

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FORMER SUSSEX BATSMAN TONY COTTEY CASTS AN AMUSING EYE Over THE SUSSEX SPORT SCENE

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ell it’s t20 time again and Sussex started their campaign with a long fruitless trip to Canterbury.

The match was called off 15 minutes before the start after a deluge. I cannot remember so much rainfall since my time at Glamorgan when a dry day above 10 degrees had everyone slapping on the sun cream.

By the time you read this, we will have played a couple of mouth-watering fixtures, against Middlesex and Essex on Sunday June 24th. As a player Middlesex at Lord’s was the match you always looked forward to.

Embers couldn’t contain himself any longer: “ Are we playing a midgets’ eleven, Gatt?”

I’ve always enjoyed playing one-day cricket against Essex. In my day it was always formidable to line up against Messrs Gooch, Hussain, Waugh, etc. I remember vividly a a NatWest semi-final for Glamorgan at Chelmsford in 1997. Essex had four wickets in hand needed 20 runs to win off five overs. It was getting very dark when all of a sudden they lost two quick wickets and it was game on. Mark Ilott, who was batting, started complaining about the light to David Constant, the

the Severn Bridge to Finals Day at the SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff.

By the time this issue of Sussex Sport is out, we’ll have one more home t20 game before – with luck – the quarter-finals.

We really are hoping you will all come out and support the lads against Surrey on July 8th. When the PROBIZ County Ground is full to bursting with a passionate Sussex crowd behind them, it really is a tough place for the opposition to visit. It is certainly worth a 20-run start for Sussex.

We’re hoping that results will mean you can cheer us on to another Finals Day.

All through this, Gatt and Embers are muttering and chuckling between themselves. When Colin got out and in walked Stuart Phelps, at all of 5ft 4”, Embers couldn’t contain himself any longer: “ Are we playing a midgets’ eleven, Gatt?”

I remember playing in an under-strength Glamorgan team in a three-day match versus a Middlesex team containing Gatting, Emburey, Cowans et cetera.

Opening the Glamorgan batting was Hugh Morris (5ft 7”), with Alun Evans (5ft 6”).

Cowans removed both of them and in came Alistair Dalton (5ft 6”) with myself at 5ft 9” (Okay, okay, 5ft 4”!!!) Cowans removes Dalton and in walks our wicket keeper, Colin Metson - 5ft 6”.

All through this, Gatt and Embers are muttering and chuckling between themselves. When Colin got out and in walked Stuart Phelps, at all of 5ft 4”,

umpire. Robert Croft then got involved: “What are you complaining about?” Ilott: “It’s bloody pitch black, I can’t see a thing.“ Croft, pointing to the sky: “What’s that up there?” Ilott: “The moon.” Croft: “How bloody far do you want to see??”

Sussex’s record in t20 over the last three seasons has been very impressive.

Who can forget the fantastic scenes at Edgbaston in 2009 when we beat Somerset in the Final? This has been followed up with two quarter-final losses in 2010 and 2011 respectively. I know Robbo, Yards and the lads are itching to go one better this season and pay their £6 and head over

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The Wright Stuff All-rounder is bashing out the runs, writes BRUCE TALBOT

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uke Wright has sampled t20 in Australia, South Africa and India already this year and he’d love to be collecting a few more air miles before 2012 is out.

England defend the world title he helped them win in Sri Lanka in September but for now the 27-year-old all-rounder is happy to concentrate on matters closer to home which means helping Sussex Sharks maintain their record as one of the most consistent t20 teams in England this summer.

Sussex have been quarter-finalists in four of the last five competitions and are targeting a return to Edgbaston – scene of their 2009 triumph – in August, especially if it will be part of his preparations for the World Cup a few weeks later.

Wright has played 30 t20 internationals since his debut in 2007.

Only four Englishmen have played more and two of them – Kevin Pietersen and Paul Collingwood – have both retired.

“That is a record I am quite proud of,” says Wright, whose last appearance came a year ago against Sri Lanka. “I spoke to Andy Flower earlier in the year and he re-assured me that I am still part of their plans but that I need to keep producing good performances.”

Flower will no doubt have noted that, particularly with the bat, Wright has been keeping his side of the bargain.

In Australia’s Big Bash in January he bashed a competition record 117 from 60 balls and finished second in the run charts for Melbourne Stars with 236

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at 39.33. He is currently negotiating a return to Australia for 2013.

Wright then flew to South Africa where he scored 249 runs for Impi, a side made up of cast-offs from the other franchises and internationals including Collingwood.

A few weeks later he got the big ticket to join Pune Warriors in the Indian Premier League. There was some serious competition for one of the four overseas slots allowed in each game and Wright only played once. Perhaps they should have had more faith in him after his exploits in Australia and South Africa – Pune finished bottom of the pile.

Nonetheless it offered him more valuable experience, particularly an insight into how other players prepared and, in India at least, different methods of playing against spinners.

And the showman in him definitely enjoyed the big crowds, particularly in Australia and India. When he blew away Hobart Hurricanes with that Big Bash record the turn-out was 18,500 – and that was the lowest he played in front of.

“The Big Bash was an awesome experience. It was as close to international cricket as you can get in terms of standard and what I liked about Australia and South Africa was you only played eight games in the group which meant they all meant something.”

No wonder, then, that Wright is delighted that this season’s Friends Life t20 is back to ten group games.

There were 16 last season although

he only played in ten of them because of the knee problem which curtailed his season and forced him to undergo surgery in September.

“Last year we lost five games and still finished second. Sixteen was overkill.”

Having sampled successful franchise t20 in Australia and South Africa does he think the model could be successful here? Would he be happy, for instance, opening the batting for the South Coast Sharks at the Ageas Bowl alongside players from Hampshire and Kent?

The answer to that question, you suspect, is yes. Wright quite likes to be a gun for hire in t20 but he also appreciates that it wouldn’t be popular among counties like Sussex who might miss out.

“Are our fans and Kent fans going to go all the way to Southampton to watch a franchise team? Probably not to be honest,” he says.

If he can transfer his performances overseas into domestic t20 he will be hard to ignore although Wright acknowledges the competition for coveted England places in any format is more intense now than even a year ago and he was left out of the squad for the summer’s one-day series against West Indies.

“There are a lot of quality players after those spots but I want to be in contention and hopefully this summer I can produce the performances to back that up.”

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Enjoyment is key to Nomads’success Mark Pennell on a cricket club fit for heroes

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reston Nomads have a tried and trusted sporting ethos that dates back to their formation in 1927, yet it still receives headline billing on the club website where members are invited to ‘Play with heroes and eat good teas!’

A thumb through the club’s old scorebooks reveals a host of cricketing heroes who have turned out for Nomads since they moved to play on their current home, nestled at the foot of the South Downs, in 1937.

Since then, almost 20 first-class cricketers and a handful of internationals have graced their well manicured greensward that lies along the aptly named Clappers Lane.

Yet none of them can have had a more

and with respect for your team-mates, the officials and opposition.

There are modern day heroes playing for the Nomads too.

Take batsman Jeremy Green, dubbed by his team-mates as ‘Lord Green of Woodmancote’, whose boundary at Bexhill in September clinched the batting bonus point that secured a hattrick of Sussex League championship titles.

Then there is left-arm spinner Stephen Rigg, whose surname and sturdy frame - described by one Nomads wag as ‘one of the most recognisable silhouettes in the league’ - has led to his somewhat cheeky nickname of ‘oil’.

Ground chairman Paul Hird is convinced that characters like Rigg and

“Captained by Kashif Ibrahim, we have achieved unparalleled success over the last five years.” profound influence on events in leafy Fulking than the late Spen Cama.

A valiant amateur all-rounder who turned out for Sussex inbetween the Wars, Cama started his association with Preston Nomads as a teenager and went on to become the club’s lifelong benefactor.

A cricket fanatic with a penchant for a tot of whisky and a nip of snuff - he always wore a snuff spoon on a chain around his neck - Cama’s influence over the club remains as tangible as ever, even approaching the 10th anniversary of his death.

So it seems hugely appropriate that the Spen Cama Memorial Ground now exists to pay tribute to a man whose name remains synonymous with the club and all that is good about the game.

A former barrister who made his millions in land and property deals, Cama died in the spring of 2001 leaving substantial financial bequests to Nomads and the county club.

His other legacy was to help sustain the notion of ‘Nomads cricket’; playing to win in a fair, sportsmanlike manner

Green, the bonhomie that exists within the teams as well as the top amenities, have all helped create Nomads era of success.

“Games are played with good humour, a Corinthian spirit and a strong will to win,” said Paul.

“There are a number of strong, charismatic characters in our teams who like nothing better to celebrate a win and, even more, a trophy.

“Captained by Kashif Ibrahim, we have achieved unparalleled success over the last five years and a part of that can be put down to our facilities.

We have two grounds with dedicated groundsmen, headed by Brian Sandalls, producing top quality playing surfaces that are the envy of many clubs.”

He added: “The winning ethos has been built up over a number of years and stems back to a successful youth set-up comprising more than 220 colts over the age of seven.

That has paid big dividends as eight of our current first-team squad are products of the colts system which, allied to our ability to attract the best players who move to the area, has

helped build a highly motivated and top-quality team.”

Yet enjoyment and success has not been restricted to the Nomads first string. The club’s 2nd XI were champions in 2005 and 2007, the thirds and fourths have both won Mid-Sussex League divisional titles while the club’s women’s team features former England captain Clare Connor.

The man masterminding the club’s success is director of cricket and former Arsenal, Brighton and Charlton footballer Steve Gatting, whose son Joe is a Sussex batsman and fellow Nomad.

Steve is quick to point out the influence of long-term overseas professional, Carl Simon, a 36-year-old pace-man with first-class experience for Antigua and the Leeward Islands.

“When you chart it back, our successes started six or seven years ago when Carl first joined us,” said Gatting: “And he has become part of the furniture since. He played a lot of basketball as a kid and got into cricket at a late stage, but when we were promoted to the Premier League Carl was recommended to us and he quickly fitted in like a dream.”

As for next season’s aspirations Gatting has no doubt, he would love to lead Nomads to a Lord’s appearance in the Cockspur Cup final.

He said: “We reached the southern area semi-final a couple of years back, so that’s something I’d love us to have a bash at. We’d need luck with the draw, all our players available and some decent back-up, because the Cockspur games are generally played on Sundays.

But it should be a target.”

Having won four Sussex League titles in five years, a brace of Twenty20 successes in three seasons and the National Indoor Six-a-side crown at Lord’s in 2009, perhaps Nomads’ website banner should now read: “Play with heroes, eat good teas then please help polish the silverware!’

I believe Spen might just nod in approval with that philosophy. SXS

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ussex clay pigeon shooter Charlotte Kerwood’s Olympic selection has been confirmed. Kerwood, 25, whose parents own the Northall shooting range near Fletching, had to wait while an appeal from Abbey Burton, her rival for a place, was considered, but she will now take her place in the women’s trap later this month at the Royal Artillery barracks in Woolwich. She said: “I have been working very hard to achieve this and it will be extra special to compete at home.”

Steve Scott, 27, from Battle, was edged out for a place in the double trap by former double Olympic champion Richard Faulds and current world number one Peter Wilson. But Battle had an Olympic success story when Jack Waller, 23, was named in the 13-man Olympic water-polo squad.

Waller has played professionally in Australia and Germany, spending last season with Sant Andreu of Barcelona.

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Shooting star among Sussex Olympians S Chichester-born Lisa Gibson, 22, was named in the 13-strong women’s water-polo squad after recovering from a torn shoulder muscle that had put her place in jeopardy. Gibson, who grew up in the United States, returned to this country five years ago after doing well in national team trials.

Team GB will be making their Olympic debut at the Games.

Barry Middleton of the East Grinstead club will captain the Great Britain hockey squad, which includes four other Sussex players. His clubmates Ashley Jackson, Glen Kirkham and Iain Lewers, will be joined at The Games by Ben Hawes, from Lewes, who now plays for Wimbledon. Middleton, who has been to the past two Olympics and is only four GB caps short of his century, said: “We have a real confidence that we can challenge for medals in this tournament and beyond.” SXS

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Cook’s Royal Progress Tina hopes to ride to Olympic glory with Zara 44 years after Mum missed out on Mexico Games. By MIKE DONOVAN

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ina Cook has revealed her delight that the dream she shared with Zara Phillips since the Queen’s grand-daughter was just ten years old is coming true.

The Findon eventer and the royal are gearing up for the London Olympics.

And Tina disclosed that the pair - who are good friends - had been longing to be on the same Games team since they met at the prestigious Gatcombe Horse trials more than 20 years ago.

She said: “Zara and I were chatting just before the team was announced, hoping we’d both be chosen and we’re delighted it has happened. What makes it especially nice is that she remembers

– General Jock and Midnight Blue – went lame. She was first reserve for the Sydney Games four years later. And, after missing Athens while giving birth to two children, she came back to strike two bronze medals at Beijing.

Zara had horses go lame when in line for Athens and Beijing before getting the opportunity to emulate her mother, the Princess Royal, who competed in the 1976 Montreal Games, and her dad, Captain Mark Phillips, won team gold at Munich in 1972 and a silver at Seoul in 1988. She is riding High Kingdom.

Tina said: “There are certainly a few parellels between us as far as disappointments are concerned.

“Zara and I were chatting just before the team was announced, hoping we’d both be chosen and we’re delighted it has happened. ” me and I remember her when I was a young rider of about 20 or 21 and she was a little of ten and we got talking at Gatcombe. We always said from that day how brilliant it would be if we got into the team together.

“I’ve competed with the other members of the team as part of a team before. I know how strong they are. It was a very difficult team to get into, so it is thrilling to have made it.

“But with Zara, it has been a case of us always missing each other, particularly when it comes to the Olympics. We’ve kind of missed each other in the past, so it is really exciting we’ll be team mates at last. Her being in the team is a great thing. It has been a long time coming with both of us suffering setbacks.”

Tina had been chosen for the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 when both her horses

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I actually replaced Zara when her horse went lame for Beijing. She was unfortunate in that it happened for two Games in a row. As a rider you are dependent on your horses being fit, of course and I’ve had my share of problems too in that regard.

“General Jock went lame before Atlanta and then I spent six weeks in Sydney before being told the day before the start of competition I wouldn’t be required. To go out there and get so close was like a punishment and a half.

“But if you are in a sport long enough you are going to get ups and downs like that. You have to keep your head down and keep battling on and hope that fate works for you. And it has this time for Zara and I so far this time, anyway.”

Tina believes her royal friend is

worthy of her spot. She said: “It might be brilliant to have her but in our eyes she is just another competitor who deserves to be there. She’s a great person and real competitor and successful in her own right. But it is not just about Zara. It is about the team.”

Tina believes, though, that the focus on Zara will help her own performance.

“That’s fine as far as I’m concerned.

But she’s a tough cookie who has been brought up with all the attention. I hope everyone gives her a chance to compete like she should be able to.”

Tina, who has won European gold in a glittering career, hopes to add to her Olympic medal collection, which totals bronzes in the team and individual competition in Beijing. And it has been a rocky road to London with the horse which helped her to glory in China almost dying of colitis, an inflammation of the colon, last year.

And, of course, the passing of her father, the legendary Findon horse trainer and multi-champion jockey Josh Gifford, in February.

She said: “The last year hasn’t been great. A real roller coaster. The situation with Miners Frolic went on for a long time and although he got better we didn’t know whether he would be able to return. There was dad becoming ill and us losing him, of course, plus a few other things which happened, made it a tough period.

“But getting called up for the Olympics was great news. It was a fairytale when my dad trained Aldaniti to win the Grand National with Bob Champion riding him (the horse having been considered a crock and the jockey having come back from suffering cancer).

It would be another fairytale if Miners Frolic and I can win a medal or two in

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It was a fairytale when my dad trained Aldaniti to win the Grand National. It would be another fairytale if Miners Frolic and I can win a medal or two in London

London and for my dad to be looking down on us. It’d be fantastic.”

The squad was chosen following a final trial at the Equi-Trek Bramham International Horse Trials in Yorkshire.

She said: “He has proved himself this year. All credit to everybody who has supported us and given us a chance.

Hopefully no one will begrudge us our place after what we’ve gone through.”

Tina is convinced the two bronze medal she and Miners Frolic won four years ago helped seal the spot she has worked towards since Beijing.

“The final trial wasn’t perfect – Miners Frolic had an unusual blip in the show –jumping. But other riders failed to

have perfect performances as well.

The selectors considered that I have shown in the past I can produce when it is needed. Miners Frolic has proved himself. He did well in two events before the last trial.”

Meanwhile, Tina has the incentive of going for Olympic gold for the sake of her mum, the former British showjumper. Althea Roger-Smith, as she was then, opted out of campaigning for the 1968 Mexico Games with the horse Questionaire by selling the horse to help raise funds for married life with Josh.

Anthea said: “It was one of those things. We were getting married, buying houses and things. You have to

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make decision. Probably afterwards I regretted it, but that was the decision i made at the time. I’ll be living through Tina what I wanted to do but didn’t do.

It is good that way.

Tina said: “My mum was incredibly talented and very much at the top of her sport. But that was a decision they had to make then. There have been, in the past, offers for Minors Frolic. If I’d have owned him he would have been sold as well but because I’d already sold him to his present owners (Nick and Valda Embericos and Sarah Pelham) they were in a position where they didn’t need to sell.” SXS

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The Olympic flame will make its way through Sussex later this month. Nick Szczepanik meets one of the bearers

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housands of Sussex people will be going to the Olympics later this summer, most to watch and some to compete. But for three days this month, the Olympics comes to Sussex as the flame is carried through the county on its way to Stratford.

The torch bearers include Chris Cannon, who will carry the flame for 300 metres in his home town of Worthing on Monday July 16th. A keen runner, Chris – who is also the press steward at Brighton & Hove Albion’s American Express Community Stadium – is looking forward to being part of history.

“I can’t wait,” he told Sussex Sport.

“A Facebook group has been set up for torch-bearers and I’ve been reading about the experiences of other people who have already done it. They all say it goes too quickly but that it’s one of the best days of your life - the way people talk to you, want pictures taken with you, visiting schools, the media interest. It’s as if it’s not real. As it gets closer and closer people are recognizing me in Worthing. It doesn’t happen to me - I’m just Chris Cannon.”

He is too modest. Although he does not know why he was selected, it cannot be unrelated to his charity work. “Coca -Cola and Lloyds were asking for nominations for people you thought should carry the flame,” he explains.

“My daughter asked if she could nominate me.

“You go through a Facebook-style system where you had to get so many ‘likes’ from people. I’d raised quite a lot of money for Help For Heroes last year, running four marathons and four halfmarathons. I also do a walking club at work, helping to get people fit, so I got enough ‘likes’.

“The second stage was a panel. I don’t even know all the people who were on it - Dizzee Rascal was one - and they voted for the people who had been nominated. Why I was picked I don’t know - maybe because it’s my 50th year, maybe because it was going through my home town, or because they liked what they saw, I don’t know.

“I’m sure there were more deserving people who weren’t picked. But I got through, and I heard in December. I still had to wait for final confirmation in March, after security checks, when I heard officially. It was a helluva thing to be told. I know people from Sussex who are doing it other areas of the country, so I’m lucky to get Worthing.”

He is certainly more deserving than some of the celebrity torch-bearers who appear to have little connection with the Olympics, the neighbourhood where they carried the flame, or even Great Britain – Ivory Coast and Chelsea forward Didier Drogba, for instance, who carried the flame in Swindon, or Black-Eyed Peas singer and The Voice panelist will i am, an American, who ran in Taunton, Somerset.

“I don’t want to criticise anyone, but I think it should just be local people,” Chris said. “No doubt some Olympic gold medallists will carry the torch, and I have great respect for them, but Didier Drogba? Will.i.am? I don’t know. This is my claim to fame, so someone like Drogba is taking away someone else’s opportunity - someone like me who is never going to get that chance again.”

On the day, though, Chris will be just as much the centre of attention. “It means a lot to people. It has surprised me how much the public are really chuffed that it is coming to Worthing.

People are so excited to meet a torchbearer. I’ve contacted a couple of local schools and hospitals to take the torch round and show them. My neighbour said ‘You’re going to be famous!’ I’m not, but it’s nice that people think like that.

Because the first day of the torch was a big success, I think every town is going to try to better that. Everyone wants to come out and see the flame.”

The flame will begin its day’s journey in Portsmouth, getting to Worthing late in the afternoon. “The torch arrives at Broadwater Green, goes south past the Steine Gardens and then along to Lancing,” Chris said. “It will be about 4.30, but I don’t know where exactly my section will be. I will meet the person

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who runs before me, hand them the torch and the torches ‘kiss.’ My torch will then light, and I do my 300 metres.

“There are people running with you for security - I think they are police officers - and they make sure everything is done correctly, the torch is lit, the crowds are kept back. By July they will have got good at it. We follow in a bus, getting back on the bus once our part is done. The day ends at Hove Park, where there will be a big celebration. I haven’t got tickets, but I’ve been invited to one in Birmingham as a VIP as a torch-bearer, which is nice.

“Some people are lucky if someone has to pull out for some reason, they get to do 600 metres. But I’m very happy with what I’ve got. I feel very privileged to get it. When my daughter nominated me, I thought ‘if it happens, it happens.’

And to actually get it was amazing. I’ll try to do Worthing proud over my 300 metres.” SXS

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Where there’s a Will there’s a way Paralympian with golden dreams.

MIKE DONOVAN reports

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ill Bayley was brought up close to an enchanted forest.

The Sussex table tennis ace could be forgiven for believing not much luck rubbed off on him from the woodland overlooking Groombridge Place which, according to its website, has ‘quiet seats, beautiful flowers, strange plants and shy deer’ and a zebra-donkey cross (a zeedon)”.

You see, Bayley was born with arthrogryposis, a rare congenital disorder that affects all four of his limbs. His feet were splinted from birth and he had his first operation aged three months. Several reconstructive surgeries directed by John Fixon followed at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. By the time he was three, Will was able to walk in Pedro boots.

At seven, he was diagnosed with cancer, namely Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, and began a six-month course of chemotherapy at Great Ormond Street.

But bubbly Bayley, 24, from Groombridge, who has been selected for the London Paralympic Games bidding for a gold medal, refuses to play the self-pity card.

The mere fact he has survived the Big C makes him feel he is fortunate, of course.

But, as you can tell by the radio adverts he has done for Holiday Inn hotel, the guy is upbeat, positive and friendly.

They were characteristics which were underlined when I first made contact with him. He started calling me ‘mate’ from the off.

It was while he was recovering from cancer that Bayley discovered he was a decent table tennis player.

And he swiftly developed his skills and techniques after his grandmother bought him his first table tennis table.

He nipped across the Sussex-Kent

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border to join Byng Table Tennis Club in Tunbridge Wells as a 12-year-old.

Will improved so much he competed at adult county level among ablebodied players.

He met Joe Stotesbury, a Paralympian, and they went down to Bristol as students together and joined the Bristol Table Tennis Academy headed by Kevin Satchell, who Will cites as a “massive influence” on the success he has enjoyed.

Satchell insists: “Will Bayley is one of the most focussed and dedicated players I have ever worked with. I have no doubt he will achieve his goal of a gold medal in London 2012.”

Will’s mentor helped guide him to the Beijing Games four years ago where he was only removed from medal contention by favourite Jochen Wollmart.

And he has gone on.

Will sealed a gold in the singles at the European Championships in Split, Croatia, last October. And he also struck silver in the team competition.

He finished 2011 by being voted the European Players’ Player of the Year.

And this year Will has gone into overdrive by sealing the world No.1 ranking.

Selection for the home Games is due reward.

He says: “I am really proud to have been chosen.”

Bayley feels a strong team spirit boosts chances of success for GB’s table tennis line-up in the Paralympics.

He says: “Our team live and train together. We have been working really hard to prepare for London 2012.

“I know that with the support of Paralympics GB we will be well prepared for the Games.

“For instance, we went on a recent trip to Italy and it was useful and enjoyable.”

Will is excited about entertaining the nation.

He says: “I am really looking forward to playing in front of a home crowd

which will include my friends and family. “Another big advantage is that I will only be 40 minutes from home!

“It is also a really exciting opportunity to raise the profile of the Paralympics and to give people the opportunity to see how great the sports are in it.”

Will is only just 24 but is among the more experienced members of Britain’s table tennis team for the multi-games which begin in August.

Together they make up one of the youngest squads in the world.

Paralympic GB Chef de Mission Craig Hunter remarked on this after the team was announced recently.

Hunter said: “I’m delighted to welcome this group of athletes to Paralympics GB. All ten are ranked within the top 11 in the world.

“That shows that there is real potential within the squad and tributes should be paid to the governing body for supporting these athletes.”

Performance Manager Gorazd Vecko added: “I am very proud that this young squad have earned their place at the Paralympic Games.

“We have a lot of players besides Will well-placed to do well. It is a great situation to be in going into a home Games, particularly as the table tennis will be very competitive.” SXS

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“The Olympics are almost a spiritual experience.”

Gold medallist Duncan Goodhew talks to Sussex Sport about schools, swimming and Team GB’s Olympic chances.

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ne of the most recognisable of Olympians will be back in Sussex this month when Duncan Goodhew visits Peacehaven Community School to open their Olympic fortnight. (See page 33) It was at his family home in Yapton, West Sussex, that he took the first steps – or perhaps that should be strokes – towards Olympic glory in Moscow in 1980, where he won gold

stand out. But nowadays, at 55, he is pleased to be able to pass on his knowledge and experience to young people.

“One of the things that came out of a survey particularly a few years ago was that primary schools especially benefit from outside visits from people that will bring something to a school,” he told Sussex Sport. “Being a sportsman but also being dyslexic

“By the end of this term, I doubt there will be a single school that has not had an Olympic project that has touched on the Olympic values along with diet and excellence in physical activity.” in the 100m breaststroke. His late father Don dug up a tennis court to make a swimming pool and the rest is sporting history.

Goodhew’s story was not one of unbroken success from that point forward – far from it. He is dyslexic and found school a struggle. And he suffered the traumatic loss of all his body hair following nerve damage sustained as a result of falling from a tree.

There is something ironic in the fact that Goodhew now makes many speaking visits to schools. He admits that he was something of a rebel during his own school days, which began at Windlesham House School near Worthing – a combination of his baldness and dyslexia making him

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and having lost my hair, I can maybe connect with kids who are slightly marginalised in the school.

“I’m lucky to have a good reason to go in to schools. It’s something I have always felt is important. I know what a huge part sport played in turning my life around. Sport was a lifeline that saved my life.

“You won’t know how much impact you will have had, but I’ve been doing this long enough to have people coming up to me years later and quoting verbatim some of the things I’ve said, and being thanked for things I’ve helped them with. So it’s very gratifying, although for several years I wondered if it was really a good use of my time. It’s a vindication of what you have believed in when someone tells

you that it has been worth while.”

The children of Peacehaven are likely to remember Goodhew’s visit for many years, especially with his Olympic credentials. He believes that the London Games have already brought benefits before a javelin is thrown, an oar dipped in water or a ball volleyed. “I’m seeing children getting involved in a wider conversation about sport and physical exercise and its impact and that of good diet, the idea of what it takes to achieve excellence,” he said.

“By the end of this term, I doubt there will be a single school that has not had an Olympic project that has touched on the Olympic values along with diet and excellence in physical activity. That is a really positive thing, and those children will watch the Olympics in a way that is different from the way they’ve watched any other sport in their lives. And the long-term impact of that is bound to be very positive.”

Needless to say, Goodhew is looking forward to the Games. “I’m a Team GB Ambassador and I have a company that’s delivering some of the behindthe-scenes work,” he said. “So as an ambassador I have some tickets and I’ll be going with my family to see some swimming.”

And did his gold medal get him free admission to other events? “As an Olympian I did get offered a pair of tickets as a concession, but I still had to buy them, and there was no discount, and otherwise I just entered the lottery like everyone else - I haven’t got a free pass! I’m going to see volleyball, and beach volleyball,

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Everybody should learn to swim, full stop. It’s a life skill, and one which should be taught in school in my opinion

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and the open-water swimming. That’s all the tickets I could get apart from the pool swimming. My son got a couple of tickets to the football, but he’s not taking me.”

He is cautiously optimistic about Team GB’s chances in the pool and beyond. “Six medals are what is predicted by the swimming association for Great Britain, and I think if you were a betting man or woman then that’s a fair bet. But being an optimist and believing in the sensational atmosphere that the team have got, the haul can be closer to ten medals than six.

“As a nation overall, we won 19 gold medals in Beijing. I have no doubt that we will win far more medals, but the gold ones are hard – really difficult.

Chris Hoy and Becky [Rebecca] Adlington won five of those 19, and Becky is favourite to win one, but not the other, so someone has to underperform for her to get two. And Chris Hoy has lost one of his events.

But on the other hand there are events

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“The first time you arrive at an Olympics, you find it far outside your experience even if you’ve been to world championships or a Commonwealth Games. To give you an idea, think of the last time you were in a stadium filled with 40,000 or more people. That is the number of competitors, support staff and media that will be in London for the Olympic Games. 205 countries will be taking part – the whole world, with sport the common language.

“You see every size and shape of competitors. At my first Games [in Montreal in 1976] I walked past a photocall with Nadia Comaneci, the gymnast, and her teammate, a basketball player, who was eight feet tall. Even the dining halls are extraordinary. Food is served 24 hours a day, the widest variety you will see in your life, catering for every appetite in the world.

“At your first Olympics, you cannot fail to be impressed by the size, the dynamic, the scale and the attention

“It’s not just learning to swim, it’s also the quality of the experience. If a kid doesn’t have a great experience, they are not left with a love of the water and they are not inspired to carry on swimming – or any other sport, for that matter, whether it’s a bad football coach or whatever. The whole idea is to inspire children to love exercise, and particularly swimming. Southern Water have been a great supporter of my sport.

“Everybody should learn to swim, full stop. It’s a life skill, and one which should be taught in school in my opinion. Every parent would agree with that, especially if their toddler has been near water over a summer holiday. And it’s the best long-term strategy for good health – something you can do when you can do nothing else. If your knees or your hips have gone you can still swim. So it’s logical for individuals and society to make sure that people can swim, to keep everybody well as long as possible.”

Children who learn to swim, he

Because of my swimming experience and the work I have done subsequently, I have learned that we are not designed to polish chairs. Exercise is crucial in getting performance out of yourself where we are likely to pick up golds where we didn’t last time.

“I’d like to think we can get into the low twenties. But you’ve got to remember that in Athens eight years ago it was eleven, and less before that. So we have been going pretty dramatically up. Beijing was an extraordinary Olympics for us, and what a feeling it will give the country if we can equal that total or better it. I’ll be cheering like mad and probably chomping at the bit to get back in the water, forgetting that I haven’t done the training and that I’m a bit long in the tooth to do it.”

As a former competitor, he believes that British athletes approaching their first Games may not realise quite what awaits them. “This is a once-in-alifetime experience,” he said. “It’s not just physical, it’s an emotional, almost a spiritual experience. It changes the mood, and attitude and behaviour of everyone you know.

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to detail. But at your second, if you’re lucky enough and if you’re in contention, you don’t see very much at all until after you’ve competed, because everything is programmed, and winning is a process of removing all excuses. The aim is to have no excuses. You don’t walk further than you have to walk, you don’t think about anything you don’t have to – you focus totally on what you’re going to be doing.”

As a former Olympic gold medallist, Goodhew has found himself especially in demand this year, fitting in media demands among his existing and heavy commitment to spreading the word about swimming. “It has been a very exciting year but also a very busy one,” he said. “I have been working with Southern Water, supporting their Learn To Swim scheme for almost 15 years. Since it started, they have helped 600,000 children.

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believes, have an advantage over nonswimmers in maintaining long-term health. “Swimming is the best form of exercise to keep you fit,” he said. “It has to be the number one exercise strategy for addressing the obesity crisis. I say that because not only do six million people swim regularly in the UK, but also swimming is by far the number one activity that people who don’t take part in exercise say they would most like to try. So it has the most latent potential of any physical activity in terms of getting people to take exercise.

“Because of my swimming experience and the work I have done subsequently, I have learned that we are not designed to polish chairs. We haven’t evolved that far from being hunter-gatherers. Exercise is crucial in getting performance out of yourself – not just in terms of sport, but in everything else that you do in life. ”

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School’s gold standard Olympic fortnight

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Swimming medallist Goodhew to open memorable celebration of Games at Peacehaven Community School

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he 2012 Olympics officially get under way on Friday July 27th, but pupils at Peacehaven Community School will get a taste of the summer games almost three weeks early. The school begins its own Olympic fortnight on Monday July 9th, when Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew MBE will open the proceedings.

Goodhew, who took gold in the 100m breaststroke at the Moscow Games in 1980, will also talk to the 170 or so year 7-10 students at the school and watch as pupils kitted out in colours representing the six continents – minus Antarctica, which has yet to provide an Olympic medallist – form a human version of the five Olympic rings bordered in white.

A birds-eye view photograph will be taken and displayed in the school’s reception area as a lasting reminder of the two-week event, which was organized by Colette Barry, PE Teacher and school Sports Coordinator, and supported with funding from sponsors Southern Water.

And in case, like me, you were concerned that the International Olympic Committee would be sending its high-powered lawyers down to the Sussex cliff tops to investigate a breach of its jealously-guarded copyright, there is no need to worry.

The school has signed up to the Olympics’ Get Set network and so is allowed to use the famous Olympic symbol.

In the true spirit of the Games, the opening day will begin with an Olympic torch travelling the streets. It

will begin at the Greenwich Meridian, which passes through Peacehaven, and make its way to three other schools - Telscombe Cliffs, Hoddern Junior School and Peacehaven Infants - before arriving at Peacehaven Community School.

Over the fortnight, pupils will compete in their continental groups, and those who have best exemplified the three Olympic values – friendship, respect, excellence – and the four Paralympic values - equality, courage, determination and inspiration - will be entered into a draw to win tickets for the women’s football match at Wembley between Great Britain and Brazil.

Many of us will have indelible memories of this country’s Olympic summer of 2012. For the young people of Peacehaven, those memories should be even stronger.

Southern Water’s Learn To Swim programme, now in its 20th year, has taught more than 600,000 children to swim. Qualified instructors teach the children aged four to 12 using the most up-to-date training techniques as recommended by the Amateur Swimming Association.

Each child receives a swimming bag and safety booklet and is rewarded for success with a certificate. Their triumphs are celebrated at two special awards ceremonies each year. For more information please visit the website – www.southernwater.co.uk/ learntoswim SXS

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Our columnist Kevin Rogers discusses gender politics in the Stables

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oday I’m going to talk about sex!

What’s the difference between a boy horse and a girl horse?

When it comes to stud value, about £30 million. Frankel, the new Mick Jagger in waiting, is looking forward to ‘covering’ God knows how many mares a year at a cost that would make a Premier League footballer skint for a fortnight.

Frankel has just won at Royal Ascot and the Aussie super-mare. Black Caviar ran, and won, on Saturday and although she has won £5 million in prize money - way more than Frankel can dream of - she is worth a fraction of Frankel’s value. They will not meet on the racecourse, not only because of

charming on the block. Frankel will then visit thousands more romantic venues, charming the bridle off all and sundry, before retiring to the Voodoo Lounge for cocktails and anecdotes with Mick Jagger, while Black Caviar sits in the bridal barn surrounded by fading garlands, probably half-eaten, with her well-worn copy of The Female Eunuch at her side.

If you are getting irate about the flagrant misogyny of horse breeding, spare some eye-watering sympathy for the non Frankelesque colts of this world, about 99% of them. The vast majority of male flat horses above the age of four and nearly all jumpers are gelded - the seed of the humdrum is not

will be keen on getting this ‘black type.’

They will also be more prepared to fight for a place than those who already have the black type. This works best in listed or Group 3s and Group 2s. This is not statistically proven, as far as I know, but it sometimes works for an each-way punt.

Lastly, some years ago, myself, my mate Mark and an ex-girlfriend of mine went to Sandown for the Whitbread.

Mark and I studied for hours and eventually came up with the winner, who lost. My ex duly backed the winner at 12/1. Chastened and broke, I asked how she had come up with Stromboli, as it was held at the weights. Stromboli was a good-looking, strong chap and

The vast majority of male flat horses above the age of four and nearly all jumpers are gelded - This, unfortunately, means the greatest horse I have ever seen, Red Rum, has no direct descendants fear of failure but because Frankel is a miler and Black Caviar a sprinter. They could split the difference and meet after seven furlongs, which would suit neither and both would probably get beaten by a second rate specialist sevenfurlong horse and everyone goes home miserable.

One day they may get together in a candlelit barn where they will fall in love and have a beautiful baby which, if a son, will be worth zillions; and, if a girl, will have to wait for the new prince

sought after. This, unfortunately, means the greatest horse I have ever seen, Red Rum, has no direct descendants - such is life.

Hopefully we can deduce a useful betting idea from this battle of the sexes. Fillies and mares get a weight allowance (non-handicaps) against colts and, more interesting for us, to become a ‘Bride of Frankel’ a mare ideally needs ‘black type,’ which means they need to win or be placed in a listed or group race. My theory is that trainers

completely white, she replied. She backed him because Stromboli looked like me. Initially I was flattered until I realised he was a gelding. I have been happily married for 25 years - to someone else.

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PHIL BELL hopes for an improvement in the weather

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t this time of year, it would seem a sensible suggestion that racecourses are at their maximum earning potential, the warm, sunny weather encouraging people by the coach-load to descend on their local racecourse for an afternoon or evening out with friends, family or business colleagues.

Sadly, the Great British Summer isn’t quite what I remember as a child and the terrible weather of the last couple of months is playing havoc with our sport. Race meetings are being abandoned for waterlogging – and it’s June!

The financial impact of the poor weather conditions cannot be underestimated. If the sun shines it can

the year scheduled for August.

Fontwell Park’s Ladies Evening has grown in popularity every year since its inception in 2004 and this year’s meeting on Thursday 16th August once again has a prize of £2,000 for the Best Dressed Lady. As well as the seven races on the card, there is a performance from The Magic of Take That after racing has finished. The important aspect of this fixture is that it appeals to a wide audience and brings in many new customers to the course.

At Brighton, the three-day racing festival starts on Wednesday 8th August. Ladies’ Day is on Thursday 9th August and the course is also offering £2,000 cash for the Best-Dressed Lady.

the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot under his regular pilot Tom Queally.

The winning distance of eleven lengths is rarely seen in a flat race, let alone at one of the biggest fixtures in the calendar. He now heads to the Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood. He’s a once-in-a-lifetime racehorse and we should all enjoy him while he’s at his peak. SXS

Fontwell Park’s Ladies Evening has grown in popularity since its inception in 2004 and this year’s has a prize of £2,000 for the Best Dressed Lady add thousands of people to the gate.

As well as the revenue from ticket sales, there is the additional spend on food, drink and betting. When it rains, attendances can be at least 50% down.

These challenges need to be met with new ideas for increasing income and the use of racecourses on nonracing days is growing. The majority are ideal for conferences, meetings, weddings, private parties, trade shows, etc. Both Brighton and Fontwell Park have significant ‘non-racing’ businesses which help alleviate the impact of bad weather affecting racing.

The management teams at both courses will be hoping for better weather as the summer continues with some of the most important fixtures of

We’re expecting hundreds of entrants!

Our company Northern Racing has recently merged with Arena Leisure, owners of seven racecourses around the country including Lingfield Park, Doncaster and Windsor. The new company now operates 38% of the fixtures in the UK. It’s extremely early days but there is huge amount of scope for our courses to work together to increase the appeal and popularity of horse racing. One of our first initiatives is ‘Come Racing for £10’ where customers can come racing at most fixtures at this competitive rate in June, July and August. All the details are at www.come-racing.co.uk.

On the national racing front, our new superstar Frankel took his earnings to £1.6m when demolishing the field in

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MR ANGRY GETS HOT UNDER THE COLLAR AND SHOOTS FROM THE LIP

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on’t get me wrong, people, I love America. I really do. Fantastic people, amazing scenery, relatively inexpensive, vast open spaces, beautiful cities, stunning wildlife. The USA has it all. Sport, however, not so good. The main American sports, the ones which fill stadia, the ones for which your archetypal blue-collar, deep pan pizza (smothered in jack cheese) munching, beer-guzzling armchair fan races home to the den to park himself in front of the screen, are American football, baseball & basketball.

Ice hockey might scrape in there too.

To my mind, American football is basically a dull version of rugby with crash helmets.

Again, more crash helmets, but with the added bonus of massive gloves (mitts, I believe is the correct terminology).

Baseball’s annual championship is amusingly entitled the ‘World Series’.

Somewhat laughable, as nobody else in the world gives a Yankee’s keister about baseball. Maybe it’s thought that the rest of the world are equally enraptured by what is, if truth be told, a kid’s playground game.

And, as if to cement their position as masters of the misplacement of global epithet, the main sport that the Americans have relegated to children’s playgrounds is football (sorry, soccer)… one which

to Europe. He could, I suppose, join one of those tragic US teams like LA Galaxy or Hicksville Starburst where the cream of 1990s world soccer while away the empty post-fitness days. But then again, what do I know? I’m just a limey griping about the greatest sporting nation of all time. Guess I oughta shut the hell up and head for Disneyworld.

Hang loose, guys Captain Angry

Baseball? Well, that’s just a fancy-schmancy name for rounders, isn’t it? Again, more crash helmets, but with the added bonus of massive gloves Rows of players, padded up to look like a gang of Frankenstein’s monsters, shout a random selection of numbers and then crash into each other, while someone throws the ball to a runner, and that’s about it.

Basketball is now entirely populated by protagonists of over seven feet in height.

You want to be a pro basketball player, question number one is not ‘Are you any good?’ but ‘How tall are you?’ Six foot nine? Too short. Six four? Don’t waste our time. At some stage the authorities are going to have to raise the baskets because the players will be injuring their backs bending over to put the ball in.

Baseball? Well, that’s just a fancyschmancy name for rounders, isn’t it?

is genuinely a world sport. Have you noticed that whenever there’s a US TV show on portraying family life, at some point Mom will say she’s just going to take her daughter to soccer practice?

You will then see a few shots of pre-teen kiddies running aimlessly about in shorts miskicking soccer balls, while a tracksuited coach with a whistle tells them how awesome they are.

I don’t know about you but it makes my blood boil. This is a sport adored by almost every country in the world, which has, in America, achieved the status of ‘pin the tail on the donkey’. If an American bucks the trend and actually wants to become a pro soccer player, then he really has to come

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In the footsteps of Monty Golf College prepares youngsters for success

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t first glance, the sight of a group of dedicated young golfers honing their games on the range and the practice putting greens of Lindfield Golf Club is nothing out of the ordinary.

It is surely a scene replicated across the length and breadth of the country at any club with a thriving youth section.

These golfers, however, are a little bit different. Not only do they dream of being the next Tiger Woods every time they smash a booming drive arrowing down the middle of the fairway, they are chasing that dream with a vengeance.

Lindfield is one of Sussex’s wellrespected courses, but what sets it apart from its peers and draws young golfers like a powerful magnet from across the county, the rest of the United Kingdom and beyond is The Golf College.

Situated at the club and run by Lindfield since 2007, the college educates boys and girls aged between 16-19 years currently playing off a single figure handicap, providing students with the best technical and physiological training, priming them for a career at the top level.

It helps to have expert instruction and guidance, and there can be few better than the college’s Master

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Professional, Denis Pugh, who is a frequent visitor to Lindfield. A former coach to eight-time Order of Merit winner Colin Montgomerie, Denis is the man Ryder Cup players Francesco and Edoardo Molinari look to for help with their game.

Immersed in the sport 24/7, students on the Advanced Apprenticeship in Golf should rightly assume their handicap is going to tumble. But other areas of the game are covered as well, from how to get a job as a course pro, to how to tour successfully.

There are other courses, too. The Golf Gap Year Course is aimed at students who have finished their A-levels and are undecided about their next step, while the Golf to Employment Course focuses more on learning the all-round skills needed to enter other areas of the golf industry.

It is easy to see why teenagers are drawn to what used to be viewed as an old man’s game. No fewer than 89 golfers made more than $1million in prize money on the US PGA Tour in 2011, with 23 golfers making Euro millions on the equivalent tour this side of the pond.

Seeing young phenoms such as Rory McIlroy – a Major champion at 22, already set up for life financially and with a glamorous girlfriend in tennis star Caroline Wozniacki – it is easy to

say “I want that too”.

Few players make it to the very top, of course. But The Golf College is well aware of this and does not make any false promises. It merely puts the component parts in place to allow the golfer to become the best that he or she can be. Natural talent, desire to succeed and determination all come from within.

The club itself is something of a young go-getter, too. Designed by Patrick Tallack and opened in 1990, it is a testing 5,957-yard parkland course close to Haywards Heath in West Sussex which provides a pleasurable challenge without being unfair.

Formerly known as Paxhill Park, which is where it is situated, the club changed its name to Lindfield several years ago and has worked hard to build a well-deserved reputation for friendliness and value for money under Director of Golf, Paul Lyons, a former European Tour player.

Former members will still recognise the layout, but the feedback from the current membership is that the changes have been for the better. Not so much as a metamorphosis, more of a rebirth.

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It is easy to see why teenagers are drawn to an old man’s game. No fewer than 89 golfers made more than $1million in prize money on the US PGA Tour in 2011

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ou’ve chosen a destination, booked your accommodation, crossed fingers for hot weather, and then it hits you…it’s time to reveal your beach body again!

How does losing a stone sound right now? Well, burning 2lbs of fat each week is very realistic so just 4-8weeks will produce dramatic results.

Interested? Here’s how!

Adam’s Top 10 Tips for a Pre-Holiday Shape-Up! 1. Exercise 6 days a week, 1-day rest.

Those calories have to be burned and muscles worked into shape. If you don’t exercise much at the moment start gentle!

2. Cardiovascular exercise, like jogging, mainly uses big lower body muscles; meaning lots of calories burned. Aim for 30mins+ of cardio daily.

3. Try alternating moderate intensity cardio days, getting you warm and slightly breathless (walking, gentle cycling, slow swimming) that burn calories slower allowing longer workouts, with more intense days that gets you sweaty and your heart rate racing. Running, hill cycling or fast swimming burns calories faster but tires you sooner, causing more soreness the next day.

4. Vary the type of cardio exercise you do each day to save overworking the same muscles and joints. Try dancing, rowing, kayaking, skipping, or skating.

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Get your beach body ready NOW! 5. Sculpt firmer muscles by adding 30min resistance-based workouts 3 days a week leaving a days rest between. You could try the gym, Pilates, or a fast-paced circuit-training workout at home.

6. Boost results by increasing your everyday activity. Include all those tips you’ve heard before. Take the stairs instead of lift, walk instead of driving, get off the bus a stop early, stand instead of sitting, and walk while on the phone.

7. Consume fewer calories. The average man requires 2500kcals and 2000kcals for women, but if your weight is too high you can be sure that too many high-calorie treats are finding their way into your diet or your meals are too big.

8. Instead of starving yourself, focus on cleaning your diet. Until your holiday, no fried food, cakes, sweets, pies, pastry, processed foods or alcohol. Instead, consume more lean sources of protein, high fibre carbohydrates, fruit and vegetables.

9. Stay hydrated. Hot summer weather and sweaty exercise causes you to lose more water than usual, so replace it to maintain your energy and focus.

10. Don’t quit! Use this as a chance to achieving something dramatic; relax on holiday knowing you really deserve it!

Got a question? If you have a question about this article, or have a fitness problem you’d like Adam to cover in a future issue, email adam@yourfitnesscoach.co.uk Brief Bio: Adam Lewis is a freelance mobile personal trainer around Brighton and Sussex, specialising in workouts within client’s homes. With over 15 years, experience in the fitness industry Adam is a certified Personal Trainer, with a degree in Sport & Exercise Science and a Masters in Sports Nutrition. www.YourFitnessCoach.co.uk

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Swans’ Way

Aussie code is alive and kicking in Sussex writes Nick Szczepanik

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f you’ve ever thought that American football would be more of a man’s game without the helmets and all that padding, or that what rugby needs is a bit more attitude, then the Sussex Swans could be the team for you. The county’s Australian Rules football club is always on the lookout for new blood – not too much of which will be spilt – as it attempts to spread the word about one of the most popular sports Down Under.

You may have seen Aussie Rules, as the game is more commonly known, on Channel Four many years ago, before it took the satellite TV shilling - an egg-shaped ball, pairs of posts at each end of an oval field, with

a visit, they were far too good for Southampton Titans, although club president Alan Chambers admitted that host teams are often strongest, with some players less than keen on away trips. “You’ve got students in the teams and people here for the summer doing bar work who can’t give up shifts,” he explained.

Chambers is a Scot, but, and without wishing to indulge in national stereotyping, does the reference to bar work suggest that Australians visiting these shores make up a large percentage of the squad? “We’ve got more non-Aussies than Aussies,” he said. “Irishmen are useful too. There are a lot of skills that are transferable from Gaelic football.”

Injuries seem to be an unavoidable hazard of such a high-contact sport, and one player was carried off in the opening minutes of the game against Southampton smaller posts outside them, and goal judges dressed as if they were about to serve you some sliced kangaroo at a supermarket deli counter. Like me, you may be surprised to learn that it is played here and not only within the Antipodean quarters of London.

The capital has enough players to fill 18-a-side teams, but the Swans play in a nine-a-side league. They are one of six teams in the Southern division of the AFLB [Australian Rules Football Britain] league, and they hope to be in this season’s Grand Final, which will be contested by the top-placed team and the winner of an eliminator between the runner-up and third-placed team. The demands of travelling mean that the six teams take it in turns to host triple-headers, with all teams in action at the same venue on the same day.

The Swans play at Hove Recreation Ground, the home of Hove Rugby Club, and when Sussex Sport paid

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But the accents of the players in the starting lineup revealed that most were from the southern hemisphere.

“Some of them are just passing through, others have put down roots.

The number 12 plays cricket on a Saturday for West Chiltington but he’s awesome. We can get him more easily when we’re at home than when we’re on the road.”

But there are locally-born players too, and the club was founded by a Brit. “It was started in Shoreham in 1991 by a bloke called Julian Clark who just wanted to form an Aussie Rules team,” said Sam Dixon, the club’s longest-serving player. “It was in Brighton for two years before it moved to Crawley, eventually coming back here. He was English but just loved Aussie Rules. He emigrated to Australia about five years after he started the team.”

Dixon joined in 1993. “I’ve had a couple of years off through injury,

another year when I went to Australia and played there, another year through footballing differences. I watched it on Channel Four, saw an advert one day and thought I’d give it a go and loved it. It used to be the 18-a-side version. When it was on Channel Four, people knew about it - they knew it was tight shorts, sleeveless shirts and fighting - but at least they knew something about the game. When it went over to Sky, it lost followers. They get money, but they lose exposure.”

Chambers also encountered the sport first on TV. “I thought it looked a good, exciting sport but never got a chance to play until I was working with an Australian guy up in Crawley and he said ‘There’s a team here.’ I went along and he broke his collarbone in the first game. That didn’t put me off, but I lost my guy to go with and I didn’t get into it for another couple of years. Sometimes that’s what it takes, someone to say ‘Why don’t you come along?’

Injuries seem to be an unavoidable hazard of such a high-contact sport, and one player was carried off in the opening minutes of the game against Southampton, while a player who had been injured away to Bournemouth the previous week limped past on crutches. “I was once on the bench with two other guys and all three of us had broken collarbones at some time or other,” Chambers said.

However, it was not injury that brought this match to a premature

“

Irishmen are useful too.

There are a lot of skills that are transferable from Gaelic football

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end with Sussex leading by seven goals and four “behinds” (when the ball passes between the outer posts but not the central pair) to two and four. Instead it was the early departure of the umpire, who took exception to verbals from some of the players.

Officials are hard to find, and one will often take all three games in a day.

This one’s disappearance was a first, I was assured, but the female supporters enjoying the action on the sidelines are regulars and their number is growing as, Chambers hopes, will the playing squad.

“This competition in its present format has been going since, I think, 2004,” he said. “This league is good for developing the sport in town and cities around London. With nine men you can get a foothold and then hopefully grow it from there.” SXS

Interested in playing Aussie Rules? Contact Alan.Chambers1@yahoo.co.uk

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SussexSport AMERICAN FOOTBALL

Sussex Thunder Broadbridge Heath Athletics Stadium, Wickhurst Lane, Broadbridge Heath, Horsham, RH12 3YS info@sussexthunder.com www.sussexthunder.com Chichester Sharks (Flag Football) New Park Rd., Chichester PO19 7XY www.chichestersharks.co.uk

ANGLING

Billingshurst Angling Society 01403 782160 School House, Weald School, Billingshurst RH14 9RX www.billingshurstas.co.uk Chichester & District Angling Soc Mrs Leslie Carver 01903 713084 chichester-as.co.uk Clive Vale Angling Club Kevin Thornely. clivevaleac@live.co.uk www.clivevaleac.co.uk Copthorne & District Angling Soc Richamp@aol.com www.copthorneangling.co.uk Crawley Angling Society Mr S Clark 01923 467064 secretary@crawleyanglingsociety.co.uk www.crawleyanglingsociety.co.uk Hassocks & District Angling Soc Mrs J. Fisher 01444 235978 (not after 9pm) www.hassocksfishing.co.uk Henfield & District Angling Soc Glyn Jones, 01403 734 500 enquires@henfieldas.co.uk www.henfieldas.co.uk Horsham & Dist Angling Assoc Ian Petch, 01403 262 255 general_enquiries@hdaa.co.uk www.hdaa.co.uk/index.html L’hampton & Dist Angling Club Fisherman’s Quay, Littlehampton BN17 5BL george@mywebbox.co.uk www.ldac.co.uk Rother Fishery Association (RFA) Mr V Gould, 07776 031 472 odaarfa@tesco.net www.fishingkent.com Southdown Angling Association Mike Richardson 01435 812854 secretary.saa@gmail.com www.southdown-angling.org.uk Petworth & Bognor Angling Club 01903 770099 membership@sussexangling.co.uk www.sussexangling.co.uk Pulborough Angling Society Heather Brunning 01798 815132 joinus@pulboroughas.com www.pulboroughas.com/index.html Rudgwick Angling Society G.Wingate, Oaklands, North Heath, Farnborough, W.Sussex, RH20 1DN 01798 873412 Shoreham Angling Squad (sea) Sean Clark 07917410332 meisto@ntlworld.com, www.shorehamanglingsquad.com South Coast Angling Club (sea) 01273 454388 info@southcoastanglingclub.co.uk www.southcoastanglingclub.co.uk/index.html

ARCHERY

1066 Archery Club Ann Hyde-Barnett annhydebarnett@aol.com www.1066archery.co.uk Arundown AC Rod Brown 01903 713 747 clubsec@officials.co.uk www.arundown.org.uk Bayeux Bowmen 01424 425 112 bayeux.bowmen@btinternet.com www.bayeuxbowmen.co.uk Bognor Regis AC 01243 827 000 bognorregisarcheryclub.co.uk/default.aspx Chichester Bowmen Shelagh Nelmes secretary@chichester-bowmen.co.uk www.chichester-bowmen.org.uk County Oak AC Mike Longhurst 01273 592 795 michael.longhurst@tesco.net www.countyoakarcheryclub.co.uk Crawley AC Val Wickenden 01342 327 660 www.archeryinfo.co.uk/crawleyarchery Ditchling AC Phil Varden 01444 241 066 phil.varden@talktalk.net www.ditchlingac.org.uk

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The A-Z of clubs, leagues and sports Eastbourne Archers 01323 726 054 secretary@eastbournearchers.org.uk www.eastbournearchers.org.uk Friars Gate Archers Penny Cockerton mail@friarsgatearchers.com www.friarsgatearchers.com Hellingly AC Debbie Newton 01323 832 501 www.hellinglyarchers.co.uk High Weald AC Richard Cater www.thwac.co.uk Holbrook Archers Chris Furmanski 01403 751 150 office@theholbrookclub.co.uk www.theholbrookclub.co.uk Meridian AC Mike Range 01342 713 048 enquires@meridianarcheryclub.org.uk www.meridianarcherclub.org.uk Newhaven AC Liz Davies newhaven_archery@yahoo.co.uk www.newhavenarcheryclub.co.uk Plumpton Bowmen secretary@plumpton-bowmen.org.uk www.plumpton-bowmen.org.uk Six Villages AC Carol Bartlett 01243 545 160 secretary@SixVillagesArcheryClub.org.uk www.sixvillagesarcheryclub.org.uk Worthing AC 07983 794 997 www.worthingarcheryclub.co.uk Sussex County Archery Association Mrs D Cannon (Secretary) 01903 238 975 secretary@sussex-archery.org.uk www.sussex-archery.org.uk

ATHLETICS

Arena AC Caroline Wood 01273 324 605 areana80ac@hotmail.co.uk arena80.tripod.com Bexhill Road Runners Christine Sage 01424 810 096 info@bexhillrunners.co.uk www.bexhillrunners.co.uk Bodyworks XTC Tri Store Lawrence Neill bodyworks1@aol.com www.teambodyworksxtc.com Brighton & Hove AC Robert Willows 01903 813 878 a.willows@sky.com www.brightonandhovecity-ac.com B’ton & Hove Women’s Running Club Sarah Lowe bhrs99@rocketmail.com www.brightonandhoverunningsisters.org.uk Burgess Hill Runners Stuart Condie 01444 232 187 stuartcondie@gmail.com www.bhrunners.co.uk Chichester Runners & AC Philip Baker, 01243 533 784 philbaker5@tiscali.co.uk www.chichester-runners.org.uk Crawley AC Mrs Shirley Steele 01342 713 220 club@crawleyac.org.uk www.crawleyac.org.uk Crowborough Runners Dominique Welbury dwelbury@southeastwater.co.uk www.crowboroughrunners.org.uk East Grinstead & District AC Mary Lord 01342 316 028 mary.lordfamily@gmail.com www.egac.co.uk Eastbourne Rovers AC Julie Jones 01323 415 409 julie-jones@hotmail.co.uk www.eastbourneroversac.co.uk Fittleworth Flyers Ms Sye Frossard 07710 612 233 secretary@fittleworthflyers.org.uk www.fittleworthflyers.org.uk Hailsham Harriers Lesley Underdown 01424 810 382 marionunderdown@hailsham-harriers.org.uk www.hailsham-harriers.org.uk Haslemere Border AC David Bateman 01428 656 587 www.hbac.co.uk Hastings AC Andrea Ashley-Smith 07759 145 466 secretary-hastingsathleticclub@live.co.uk www.hastingsathleticclub.co.uk Hastings Runners Sally Lovell www.hastingsrunners.org.uk Haywards Heath Harriers Linda Tullett 01444 870 788 enquiries@haywardsheathharriers.co.uk www.haywardsheathharriers.co.uk

Heathfield Road Runners Jim Scott 01435 863 932 jpjscott@googlemail.com www.heathfieldRd.runners.com Henfield Joggers Richard Knight 01273 492 293 www.henfieldjoggers.co.uk Horsham Blue Star Harriers Michael Carrington 01403 260 556 carringtonjm@googlemail.com www.horshambluestarharriers.org.uk Horsham Joggers info@horshamjoggers.co.uk www.horshamjoggers.co.uk Lancing Eagles David Clubb 01273 554 946 davidclubb@sky.com www.lancingeagles.co.uk Lewes AC Peter Miller 01444 232 083 pmiller209@btinternet.com www.lewesac.co.uk Mel’s Milers Jogging Club 01403 247 572 info@melsmilers.co.uk www.melsmilers.co.uk Midhurst Milers 01730 814 339 info@midhurstmilers.co.uk www.midhurstmilers.co.uk Phoenix AC (Brighton) Paul Thomas 01323 490 037 disabledathlete@googlemail.com www.brightonphoenix.org.uk Rotary Rd. Runners David Crook 01243 262 126 dcrook@dsl.pipex.com Seaford Striders 01323 899 033 www.seafordstriders.org.uk Steyning AC Martin Coleman martinrcoleman@hotmail.co.uk www.steyningac.co.uk The Sixth Dimension Simon Wagstaff sixthvillagesenquires@freedom-lesiure.co.uk www.freedom-lesiure.co.uk, Tonbridge AC Mrs Vicky Thomas 01732 359 669 www.tonbridgeac.co.uk Tone Zone Runners (Felpham) 01243 826 612 clubsecretary@tonezonerunners.org www.tonezonerunners.org Utopia Runners (Uckfield) Richard Page 01825 769 015 utopiarunners@tiscali.co.uk utopiarunners.eastsussexcrosscountry.co.uk Wadhurst Runners Sara Wrenn 01892 783 506 sarawren@googlemail.com www.wadhurstrunners.co.uk Worthing & District Harriers Maureen Lewis 07968 270 460 mandycollingson@tiscali.co.uk www.worthingharriers.com Worthing Striders 07834 968 533 information@worthingstriders.co.uk www.worthingstriders.co.uk

BADMINTON

Alfriston John Cripps 01323 898 640 Arcadian (Worthing) Janice Byerley 01903 233 330 chris.byerley@talktalk.net Ashurstwood BC Jon Warren 01293 774 904 Jonts67@hotmail.com Barcombe Rosemary Carter 01273 480 944 / 466 086 ro_mackie@hotmail.com Beacon (Crowborough) Bryan & Ann Duggan 01892 653 481 bryan@beaconbadminton.com www.beaconbadminton.com Bexhill Sandy Scrivener 01424 222 755 Bognor Regis BC Gary Smith 01243 828 225 garyjohnsmith@tiscali.co.uk Bosham Badminton Club Bruce Dupee 01243 773 744 bruce.dupee@gmail.com www.chihhh.org.uk/bbc/ Breakaways (Portslade) Tracy Sayers 01273 419 622 tracysayers@hotmail.com Brighton Bats (Moulsecoomb) 01273 622 266 batsclub2004@yahoo.co.uk Chanctonbury Mike Murray 01903 746 172 mikemurray53@btinternet.com

Chelwood Gate Sue Bailey 01825 722 588 info@chelwoodgatebc.co.uk www.chelwoodgatebc.co.uk, Chichester Wing Peter Gowin 01243 860 670 petergowin@talktalk.net Club Foot (Worthing) Matt Page 07790 686 624 mattpagezk@ntlworld.com Cooden Les Rowley 01424 223 998 lesliejrowley@aol.com Crawley Phil Oldfield 07966 157 450 enquiries@crawleybadminton.co.uk www.crawleybadminton.co.uk David Lloyd Leisure (Worthing) Paul Young 01903 276 700 paulgarethyoung@msn.com Dragonflies (women only) Mrs B Rutherford 01273 841 898 Virgin Brighton Julia Alkema 07798 808 626 coachjulia@live.co.uk Felbridge Jackie Burditt 01444 443 442 Jackie@accelerated-mail.co.uk egscc.co.uk/badminton/fbc.html Forest Gill Fairham (Secretary) 01403 254 150 gill.fairham@talktalk.net www.forestbadmintonclub.org Hailsham Diana Burton 01323 423 093 diana.j-flana@tiscali.co.uk Hardwick (Eastbourne) Alan G Smith 01323 638 620 agordonsmith018@talktalk.net Hassocks Penny Radford 07714 545 328 penradford@hotmail.com Haywards Heath Elspeth McKenzie 01444 235 318 p.j.mckenzie@btinternet.com Henfield Debbie Chambers 01273 491 445 debbie.chambers@ukonline.co.uk Holbrook (Horsham) Sarah Lewis 01403 751150 sarahlewis83@yahoo.co.uk Homestead (Southwick) Andrew Lock 01273 732 354 andrew.lock@hoveactually.co.uk Imberwood (East Grinstead) Trevor Tolliday 01342 326 346 trevortolliday@sky.com www.imberwood.co.uk Lancing Stewart Byne 01903 763001 stewbyne@msn.com Lindfield Mrs Barbara Davies 01444 453559 BarbaraDavies@northcolwell.co.uk www.freewebs.com/lindfield Littlehampton David Beatty 01903 713217 lbsclub@tiscali.co.uk / www.lbsc.org.uk Middleton (Littlehampton) Colin Morris 01243 584274 colin.morris80@tesco.net Middleton (Littlehampton) Colin Morris 01243 584274 colin.morris80@tesco.net Newick Badminton Club David Palmer 01825 723299 davidpalmer2@supanet.com www.newickbadmintonclub.co.uk Ringmer Badminton Club Samantha Holder 01273 812 906 Ringmer (Village Hall) Sue Hemington 01273 812 356 S S Ramblers (Eastbourne) Mr P Wilkinson 01323 640 956 Saints (Eastbourne) Kevin 01323 502 530 philip@saintsbadminton.co.uk www.saintsbadminton.co.uk St Anne’s (women only, Hartfield) Sheila Puttock 01323 503 409 St Johns (Bexhill) Alison Seymour 01424 732 226 Alison@gpark.demon.co.uk St Lukes (Brighton) Bill Brandt 01273 675 316 bill.brandt@ericsson.com St Richard’s (Pound Hill, Crawley) Jan Archard 01293 531 826 p.archard@btinternet.com St Paul’s (Crawley) Mrs Brenda Phillips 01293 420 578 St.PaulsBadminton@PLCWD.Co.Uk www.plcwd.co.uk/html/badminton.html Southover (Rottingdean) Lesley Blunt 01444 233 965 lesley.blunt@talktalk.net

Stanford Penguins (Portslade) Alvin Lee 01903 831 131 alv82000@hotmail.co.uk www.stanford-penguins.co.uk Steyning/Castle Michele Mason 01273 588 444 sarahmichele@hotmail.co.uk The Denes Badminton Club (Rottingdean) Nicky Holness Nicky@holness.wanadoo.co.uk West Worthing Vanessa Bramble 01903 247 567 vanessa@bramblespatch.freeserve.co.uk Woodlands (St Leonards-on-Sea) Secretary 07907 892 922 info@woodlandsbadminton.org.uk www.woodlandsbadminton.org.uk Worthing Nondescripts Matthew Hodgson 01903 204 386, matthew.hodgson@ntlworld.com

badminton Leagues

Brighton Badminton League Matt Page 01903 233 417 mattpagezk@ntlworld.com www.brightonbadmintonleagues.co.uk Bognor, Chichester & District Brian Simpson, Secretary secretary@bcdba.org.uk www.bcdba.org.uk Eastbourne & Dist Badminton Assoc Annette Huggett 01323 500 019 annettehuggett@care4free.net or www.eastbournebadminton.co.uk

BASKETBALL

1066 Conquerors (Hastings) 07962 687 207 andy12hodder@aol.com www.1066basketball.co.uk Bexhill Giants Eric Douglin 07971 821 457 eric.douglin@btopenworld.com bexhillgiants.intheteam.com Bognor Pirates Basketball Club David Lowe 01243 265 409 david.lowe7@btinternet.co.uk bognor-basketball.co.uk/index.html Holbrook Allstars (women) Sarah Maloney 07957 860 455 nickprobin@aol.com and sarahlawes24@hotmail.com Runnin Rebels (Brighton) Nick Stevens nickandbeckystevens@yahoo.co.uk www.runninrebels.co.uk Worthing Tropics Ashley Clarke 07899 061 704 Ashley.clarke@puma.com

Juniors

Angmering Cobras Mr. D.Yates 01903 778 363 director@thesportscollege.co.uk www.thesportscollege.co.uk/cobras.php Brighton Cougars Anne Baverstock 07809 105 300 Bav@dorothy-stringer.co.uk brightoncougars.intheteam.com Bognor Royals Youth Hilary Robbins hils.robbins@btinternet.com Crawley Cagers 07800 511 762 cliff@crawleycagersbasketball.co.uk www.crawleycagersbasketball.co.uk East Grinstead Jr Basketball Club 07812 121 222 Hay Heath Eagles Basketball Club www.bebo.com/Profile. jsp?MemberId=4974679988 Horsham Hawks Basketball Club John Dishington 07971 466 120 johnd@horshamhawks.co.uk www.horshamhawks.intheteam.com Holbrook Huskies (Men), Dave Goss d.goss@talk21.com Eastbourne Jets 07801 701 474 hoopscoach33@btinternet.com www.eastbournejets.co.uk Shoreham Sharks Basketball Brian Deacon (coach) 07826 550 844 coach@shorehamsharks.co.uk www.shorehamsharks.co.uk Storrington Slammers Richard 07974 237 069

BOWLS Find your closest bowls club: www.bowlsengland.com/index.asp?display=clu bs&l=1&county=Sussex

Adur Indoor Bowling Club Ken Twine 01273 870670 admin@aduribc.com www.aduribc.com Sussex County Bowling Assoc Men’s Sec., David Bain 01903 742 526 bain_david@hotmail.com Women’s Sec., Kathy Flood 01273 517 683 www.sussexba.co.uk kathyflood@btinternet.com E Sussex Short Mat Bowls Assoc Alan Archer 01424 830 425 www.eastsussexsmba.co.uk W Sussex Short Mat Bowls Assoc Bryony Wood 01403 267 608 setonwood@btinternet.com wscsmba.org

BOXING

Adur Laurence Causabon-Vincent 01903 754 869 Atha Joe Pilgrim 01424 223 563 Bognor Regis 01243 862 279 Brighton City Brian Harvey 07891 794 559 Chichester Boys Heath O’Brien 01243 782 462 Crawley George Brown 07782 375 870 www.crawleyboxing.co.uk Horsham 07831 553 328 www.horshamabc.co.uk Hastings West Hill Jean Gray 01424 441 308 info@westhill-boxing.com www.westhill-boxing.com Hillcrest (Newhaven) Sue Lawrence 01273 512 376 hillcrestcentre@btopenworld.com Hove David Brown 01903 762 643 david.brown131@ntlworld.com Keystone Pat Nelson 01293 409 376 Moulsecoomb Matt Bell 01273 231 896 St Gerards Gerry Lavell 01243 786 661 Whitehawk Gary Emins 07738 527 677 emins_whitehawk_abc@yahoo.co.uk Willingdon Trees Dan Woolridge 07875 719 875 treesnews@yahoo.com www.willingdontreesabc.com

CANOEING/KAYAKING

Adur Canoe Club 01798 812 183 secretary@adurcanoeclub.org.uk www.adurcanoeclub.org.uk Bewl Canoe Club infobewlcanoeclub@yahoo.co.uk www.bewlcanoeclub.co.uk Chichester Canoe Club kerry@chichestercanoeclub.co.uk www.chichestercanoeclub.co.uk Cuckmere Valley Canoe Club committee@cvcc.org.uk www.cvcc.org.uk Forest Canoe Club 07725 252 952 forestcanoe@yahoo.co.uk www.forestcanoeclub.org.uk Hailsham & Eastbourne Canoe Club peterchambers@kennedybros.co.uk Hastings & District Canoe Club 07512 810 139 hastingscanoeclub@googlemail.com www.hastingscanoeclub.org.uk Martlet Kayak Club 294 Madeira Drive Arches, Brighton BN2 1EN martletkayakclub@hotmail.com www.martletkayakclub.org.uk

CRICKET

To find your local club: sussexcb.play-cricket.com/directory east Sussex Cricket League Kenneth Jeffery 01684 567 042 kcj@escl.org.uk / www.escl.org.uk League cricket info: www.sussexcricket.co.uk/the-club/ recreationalcricket/clubs-leagues/ Mid Sussex Cricket League mscl.play-cricket.com Sussex Cricket League Peter Butter (Chairman) peter.butter@btinternet.com www.sussexcl.play-cricket.com

West Sussex Invitation Cricket League www.wsicl.co.uk

CYCLING

21st Century Airports CT Mr Graham Kerr 01403 217 297 Bognor Regis Cycling Club Don Lambert 01243 262 434 donjanlamt13@supanet.com www.bognorregiscyclingclub.org/ Central Sussex CC (Shermanbury) Mr Geoff Ericson, 10 Woodside Close, Shermanbury RH13 8HH Crawley Wheelers Dick Crane 01342 713 197 www.crawleywheelers.co.uk Dirt Devils MBC (MTB) info@dirt-devils.fsnet.co.uk www.dirt-devils.fsnet.co.uk Eastbourne Rovers Cycling Club stuart@eastbournerovers.co.uk www.eastbournerovers.com East Grinstead Cycling Club Richard Blackmore 01342 713 272 dicknjan@btinternet.com / www.egcc.net VC Etoile (Findon) Peter Scarsbrook 01903 872 052 scarzi@hotmail.com Festival RC (Horsham) Brian Wareham 01403 240 262 brianwareham@aol.com www.festivalrc.co.uk Findon Gentlemen’s Cycling Club 01903 873 923 info@thefgcc.org www.thefgcc.org Forest Row Cycling Club Kate Chadwick 01342 311936 secretary@frbc.info www.frbc1.talktalk.net Horsham Cycling Club Peter David 01403 259 062 peter.david@horshamcycling.co.uk www.horshamcycling.co.uk Lewes Wanderers Cycling Club Mick Burgess 01444 244 283 www.leweswanderers.co.uk Phoenix Cycling Club (Seaford) Clive Aberdour 01323 872 292 clive.aberdour@btinternet.com www.phoenix.cyclub.btinternet.co.uk Rye & District Wheelers Barry Goodsell 01424 882 890 goodsellbazza@aol.com Southdown Velo (Chichester) contact@southdownvelo.org.uk www.southdownvelo.org.uk Stella GS (Storrington) Dr Mark Jones 01273 642 215 m.p.jones@brighton.ac.uk Stella VC (Littlehampton) Mr Raymond Betts 07802 740 446 raybetts75@btinternet.com Sussex Nomads (B Hill/Ditchling) Alan Limbrey 01273 558 511 richard.harwood1@sussexnomads.org.uk www.sussexnomads.org.uk VC Jubilee Yth Dev Cycling Club 01273 843 859 vcjubilee@vcjubilee.co.uk www.vcjubilee.co.uk

CYCLING (BMX)

Bexhill Burners BMX Club Robin Higley 01424 212 951 robin.higley@btinternet.com Preston Park Youth Cycle Club Anthony Rogers, Chairman, 01273 883 956 anthony@ppycc.org.uk www.ppycc.org.uk Sussex Cycle Racing League Mrs Deborah Gent 01273 301 262 debgent@gmail.com www.scrl.co.uk

CYCLING (Leisure)

East Sussex Cyclists’ Touring Club David Rix, ctceastsussex@gmail.com Eastbourne & Hailsham Section Christine Thomas 01825 890 809 Midweek Section Esther Carpenter 01424 751 581 esthercarpenter@rocketmail.com www.ctcmidweek.org.uk Geoff’s Old Bike Rides Geoff Boxall 01273 813 917 Cyclists’ Touring Club W Sussex Edwin Jones 01243 267 746 edwin@jones.name www.ctcwestsussex.org.uk CTC Arun - Adur Group Peter Wilson 01903 755 765 pw@peterwilson.org.uk www.fonant.co.uk/arunadur

CTC Bgnr, Chichr, Hrshm & Crwly grp 01403 257 072 bnicol@horshamandcrawleyctc.org.uk www.horshamandcrawleyctc.org.uk, www.bognorchichester.org.uk, Sussex Nomads Cycling Club 01273 709 303

DIVING

Crawley Diving Club Mrs B McAdam 01293 410 944 divergindeep@hotmail.co.uk Worthing Swimming Club 01903 231 797 email@WorthingSwimmingClub.org.uk www.worthingswimmingclub.org

FENCING

Brighton & Hove Angela Goodall angela.goodall@brightonandhovefencing.co.uk www.brightonandhovefencing.co.uk Chichester Fencing Club Sharon Blackman 01243 822 753 info@chichester-fencing-club.org.uk www.chichester-fencing-club.org.uk Chichester Community Fencing Club 07961 677 384 info@communityfencing.org.uk www.communityfencing.org.uk Crawley Sword Geoff Griffin 01293 521 870 www.crawleyswordclub.co.uk Eastbourne Fencing Club Steven Paul eastbournefencing@googlemail.com www.eastbournefencing.org.uk Horsham Fencing Club gigglenicky@aol.com www.horshamfencingclub.co.uk Portslade Fencing club Eileen Pitman 01273 411 100 sportscentre@pcc-web.com

FOOTBALL The Sussex FA: www.sussexfa.com/GetIntoFootball/FindAClub/ www.sussexfa.com/Governance/Affiliation/

Adult leagues Sussex County League (Sat/midweek) www.scfl.org.uk

Intermediatefootball adult leagues

Brighton, Hove & Dist Football Lge Andy Lindley 07764 537 078 www.bhdfl.co.uk/index.html East Sussex Football League 01323 765 971 paul.turner@esfl.org.uk www.esfl.org.uk Mid Sussex Football League Lawrie Parsons 01444 242 023 lawrie.parsons9@btinternet.com www.football.mitoo.co.uk/Counties.cfm?County=Sussex West Sussex Football League Chris Bridges 01403 730 853 christopher.bridges@btinternet.com Worthing & District Football Lge www.yellowjersey.net Sussex Sunday Football League www.sundayleague.info Worthing & Horsham Dist Sunday Lge Phil Farrelly 07774 835 870 philfarre@aol.com www.leaguewebsite.co.uk/whdsfl Lewes & District Football League Chris Bates lewessfl@yahoo.co.uk www.leaguewebsite.co.uk/lewessfl

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Women’s & girls’ (Sundays)

Sussex County FA Womens’ & Girls www.thefa.com/full-time/scfa South East Counties Women’s Lge www.secwfl.org.uk

YOUTH Leagues

Arun & Chichester Youth League Kathy Wilson 01903 883 997 kathy@kathy99.freeserve.co.uk www.acyfl.net East Sussex Mini-Minor League Pat Taylor 01424 429 786 www.freewebs.co.uk/esmml Mid Sussex Youth & Minor League full-time.thefa.com/Index.do?league=1375655 Rother Youth League full-time.thefa.com/Index.do?league=681144

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SussexSport Sussex County Yth Lge (Under-18) full-time.thefa.com/gen/Index do?league=4160018 Sussex Sunday Youth League full-time.thefa.com/Index.do?league=1697069

GYMNASTICS

British gymnastics: www.british-gymnastics.org Angmering School Of Gym 07935 212 428 angmering.gym@googlemail.com Arun Gym & Trampolining Club 07986 508 909 Mandyhxxx@aol.com Brighton & Hove Gymnastics Club 01273 776 209 gym@bhgym.co.uk www.bhgym.co.uk cacl gym club (eastbourne) 01323 730 467 info@caclsports.co.uk Chanctonbury Sportup G.C. 01903 746 070 sportup@chanctonburysl.com Chichester Olympic Gymnastic Club 01243 790 255 info@chichestergymnastics.co.uk www.chichestergymnastics.co.uk Hawth Gymnastics 01293 520 821 www.hawthgymnastics.co.uk Hollingdean Gymnastic Club 01273 559 469 jeffrey.arnold3@ntlworld.com Horsham Gymnastics Club 01403 756 699 hgc@hgc.org.uk / www.hgc.org.uk i-star Academy 07843 666 251 info@istaracademy.co.uk Kestrel Gymnastics Academy K.G.A 01580 858 733 k.g.a@btinternet.com Pavillions in the Park 01403 219 200 enquiries@pavillionsinthepark.co.uk Pyramid Gymnastics Club 01444 243 314 john.nightingale4@btinternet.com Pyramid Gymnastics Club 01444 243 314 john.nightingale4@btinternet.com Seaford Gymnastics Academy 01323 892 425 lorraine@seafordgymnastics.co.uk Stars Gymnastics Club 01903 800 024 amandawadman@gmail.com Summerfields Gym Club 01424 444 615 emma@summerfields-gymnastics.com Uckfield Gymnastic Club 01825 764 141 www.uckfieldgymnastics.co.uk Wickers Gym Club Katy Hodgson 01273 465 554 khodgson@talk21.com / wickersgymclub.com

HOCKEY

Bognor Town Hockey Club (women) patathome.simmonds.btinternet.com Brighton & Hove Hockey Club 01903 239 894 cameron_heath@standardandpoors.com www.brightonandhovehockeyclub.net Burgess Hill Hockey Club (women) 01444 441 223 ginettemread@yahoo.co.uk www.burgesshillhc.co.uk Buxted Park Hockey Club Captain: Liz Wigglesworth 01825 733 689 info@bphc.co.uk www.bphc.co.uk Chichester Hockey Club Kim Howarth 01243 865 523 kimhow14@hotmail.com www.chichesterhockey.com Crawley Hockey Club 07788 543 836 emma.franks@blueyonder.co.uk www.crawleyhockeyclub.com Crowborough Hockey Club Paula Davies 01732 866 533 www.crowboroughhockey.co.uk East Grinstead Hockey Club 01342 321 210 alison.armstrong@freedom-lesiure.co.uk www.egscc.co.uk Hailsham Hockey Club 07855 121 511 alison@hailshamhc.co.uk www.hailshamhockey.co.uk

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Honeybees Hockey Club (women) Katie Walters 07719 756 148 kwalters@imberhorne.co.uk Holbrook Hockey Club (Horsham) 01403 751 150 Claire_adcock@yahoo.co.uk www.theholbrookclub.co.uk Horsham Hockey Club 07740 096 123 nick.evans@uk.ibm.com www.horshamhc.co.uk Lewes Hockey Club Gemma Collins 01273 480 630 vodkagemma@hotmail.com www.southdownsportsclub.co.uk/hockey Littlehampton Hockey Club Colin Warner 07977 516 070 colin.warner@war-ner.co.uk www.littlehamptonhc.org.uk Mid Sussex Hockey Club Vicky O’Boyle 01444 248 110 vickyoboyle@yahoo.co.uk www.mshc.co.uk Middleton & Bognor Hockey Club 01243 870 000 rachelmccartain@talktalk.net www.mandbhc.org.uk Sth Saxons Hockey Club (Hastings) Sue Klein 01424 223 647 sueklein2001@aol.com www.southsaxonshc.co.uk Southwick Hockey Club 01273 592 233 www.southwick.org Worthing Hockey Club Bob Catlow 07836 529133 Catlowbob@aol.com www.worthinghockey.co.uk

LACROSSE

East Grinstead Lacrosse Club 07712 527 615 info@eglc.co.uk / www.eglc.co.uk

LIFESAVING

Crawley Town Lifesaving Club Secretary: John Stainer 01293 585 300 contact@crawleytownlsc.com www.crawleytownlsc.com/contact.htm Horsham Life Saving Club David Slade 01903 715 745 info@horshamlifesavingclub.co.uk www.horshamlifesavingclub.co.uk Ringmer Swim & Lifesaving Club John Wiles 01273 400 468 bodgelets@hotmail.com

MARTIAL ARTS AIKIDO

Aikido Circle Black Belt Academy Ken DeHaan 07747 788 128 ken@aikidocirclebba.com www.aikidocirclebba.com Crawley Aikido Club 01342 321 429 info@crawleyaikidoclub.com crawleyaikidoclub.com Ittaikan Aikido Club Paul Bonett 01273 696 383 dojo@brightonaikido.co.uk www.brightonaikido.co.uk/ Myo-Do-Kan King Alfred Leisure Centre, Kingsway, Hove BN3 2WW Henfield Leisure Centre, North Croft, The King’s Field, Henfield BN5 9QB. Val Hodges. 01273 737 132 Mondays at Henfield Lesiure, Thursday at King Alfred valhodges22@hotmail.com Southdowns Club (Aikido) Kevin Elliott 07738 538 448 kevinhavard@hotmail.com www.kifederationofgreatbritain.co.uk/clubs/ southdown.htm Sussex Sport Aikido Club Jerome Chin-Aleong 07951 177 936 jica27@hotmail.com www.sussexsportaikido.info

JUDO

Battle Judo Club 01424 774 772 Bexhill A A Judo Club 01424 214 912 jasonmeek@bexhill.org.uk Bridgeview Judo Club (Lewes) Paul Leaney 01273 470 759 fieldingd@hotmail.com www.judoatlewes.co.uk Brighton Judo Club Mark Deeney 01273 683 780 brighton.judo@btinternet.com www.brightonjudoclub.org

Chichester Judo Club Ilona Guy 07512 332 783 ilona.guy@btinternet.com chichesterjudoclub.co.uk Hastings YMCA Judo Club Les Pike 01424 446 459 Hollington Judo Club (St. L’nards) Neil Chalcraft 01424 430 999 neil.chalcraft@bt.internet.com Horsham Judo Club 07778 670 124 www.horshamjudoclub.com Kaigan Judo Club (Eastbourne) Pat Jeffery 01323 507 595 Keisen Judo Club Tim Draper 07867 538 384 tim@keisen.co.uk / www.keisen.co.uk Kin Ryu Judo Club Peter Seymour 01293 537 808 p.seymour1@sky.com www.kinryu.org.uk Seishin Judo Club 07872 449 093 www.seishin-judo.co.uk Uckfield Judo Club 01825 768 453 terry.bate@ace-ina.com Westerleigh Judo Kwai Ltd Paul Everest 01424 442 726 paulapauleverest@hotmail.com www.westerleighjudo.org.uk Zodiac Judo Kwai (Hastings) Duncan Maclean 07516 902 975

KARATE

Bexhill Shotokan Karate Club Ian Hollidge 01424 218 993 ianhollidge@hotmail.com www.sskd.org.uk Brighton Shokotan Karate Dave Hazard 01903 775 101 jess@fastnet.co.uk www.brightonkarate.co.uk Chichester GoJu Karate Club 01243 672 589 www.chichesterkarate.co.uk Funakoshi Shotokan Karate Assoc Ron Silverthorne 01323 891 471 info@fska.co.uk www.fska.co.uk Kanzenki Shotokan Karate Club Lindsey Musing 07812 037 455 www.kanzenkishotokan.co.uk KeiBudo Freestyle Karate Keith Boardman 01903 530 264 www.sussexkarate.com Sharinjiru Renshinkan Karate Do Julia Turley 01444 454 827 jtrenshinkan@btinternet.com Reiwaryu Ryushinkan Karatedo Renmei 01444 241 625 rhys.williams@trendcontrols.com www.ryushinkan.com Roffey Karate Club Phil Smith 07708 432 682 wadoguard-roffeykarate@yahoo.co.uk roffeykarateclub.co.uk Red Oak Karate Club (Lewes) John Cross 01273 471 627 redoakkarate@googlemail.com www.redoakkarate.org.uk SEMKA Wado-Ryu Karate Paul Elliott 01403 218 327 semka@btopenworld.com www.horshamkarateclub.com Tang Sou Dao Karate - Ren Yi Wu Kwan Adam Goward (snr instructor) 01825 732 224 a.goward@virgin.net www.tangsoudao.com

KICKBOXING

Dynamic Tiger F’style Kickboxing Damon Kentell 07774 891 785 admin@dtfk.co.uk / dtfk.co.uk Crawley Martial Arts Academy 07702 119 198, john@crawleymartialartsacademy.com www.crawleymartialartsacademy.com

KUNG FU

Kung Fu Schools 01293 544 333 info@kungfuschools.org www.kungfuschools.org Shaolin Kung Fu Matthew Gross 0781 2342 058 digitmatt@hotmail.com www.sussexkungfu.co.uk

TAI CHI

Sussex Zhong Ding Jan Simpson 07506 525 116 sussexzhongding@yahoo.co.uk www.sussexzhongding.co.uk

Tai Chi Wisdom Simon & Cher Robins 01273 239 054 info@taichiwisdom.net www.taichiwisdom.net

TAEKWON-DO

Brighton Taekwon-Do School 01273 508 120, brightontaekwondo@gmail.com www.martialarts-brighton.co.uk, Brighton Taekwondo Academy 07764 740 877 brightontkdacademy@yahoo.co.uk www.brightontkd.co.uk Crawley Tae Kwon-Do Club 08009 176 238 training@crawley-taekwondo.co.uk www.crawley-taekwondo.co.uk West Sussex Tae Kwon Do Anne-Marie Jones-Taylor 01243 826 917 info@westsussextaekwondo.co.uk www.westsussextaekwondo.co.uk

GENERAL/OTHER

British Jujitsu Ryu 07828 213 892, britishjujitsuruy@hotmail.com Kenaji Academy of Martial Arts Brian Redman 01903 743 334 www.kenagi.co.uk Ryusui-ryu Neil Starks 01342 315 372 www.m-a-t-s.co.uk Sama S East - Karate & Kickboxing WSussex: 01273 588 850 ESussex: 01273 580 577 george@samakarate.com www.samasoutheast.co.uk Soul Martial Arts Academy 08009 804 858 soulmartialarts@hotmail.com www.soulmartialarts.co.uk Tae-Jitsu 07891 864 272 taejitsu@yahoo.co.uk www.tae-jitsu.co.uk Uckfield Martial Arts Club Alex Foot (coach) 07946 104 512 afoot@panini.co.uk www.anthonycairns.com/Martial%20Arts/UMAC.htm W Sussex Choi Kwang Do Academy 07955 162 886 wsckd@fsmail.net www.westsussexckd.com White Crane Fighting Arts Neil Johnson 07976 260 710 neil@whitecranefightingarts.com www.whitecranefightingarts.com Worthing Mike O’Hagan 01903 236 664 mohagan@gym-xtreme.co.uk www.gym-xtreme.co.uk

NETBALL

Sussex County Assoc Sheila Martin 01273 422 959 she.martin@hotmail.co.uk www.sussexnetball.com/play-netball.php Arun Netball Club jo_norcross85@yahoo.co.uk hanbro@me.com Brighton Netball Club www.brightonnetballclub.co.uk CCK Netball Club (Whitehawk) ccknetball@btinternet.com www.brightonccknetballclub.wordpress.com Crows Netball Club Rachel 01892 655 661 www.tunwellsnetball.org.uk CD Phoenix Netball Club (E Grinstead) cdphoenixsussex@googlemail.com www.cdphoenixsussex.org.uk Eastbourne netball club www.eastbourne-netball.com Enigma Netball Club (Worthing) Karen Thornton 07748 196 238 karenthornton12@hotmail.com Genesis Beacon Netball Club 01825 769 210 Giants (Worthing) karen.Dennison@westsussexpct.nhs.uk Hassocks Netball Club macnamara750@btinternet.com H’field & Partridge Green N ball Team Edna 01403 710 586 Lewes netball club (junior) www.lewesnetballclub.co.uk Mid Sussex Netball Club Jackie@midsussex.netball.org.uk www.midsussexnetball.org.uk Oakwood Netball Club (Crawley) oakwoodnetball@yahoo.co.uk www.oakwoodnc.co.uk

Pulborough Netball Club Sue 01798 875 629 suzanne@dudman04.orangehome.co.uk Redhill Netball Club (Crawley) jo.barnes@rocketmail.com Rimmerettes Netball Club 07901 910 539 michelle.simmons@hotmail.co.uk Rudgewick Netball Club Emily 07799 514 954 www.rudgewicknetballclub.co.uk Seaford Netball Club Clare 01323 890 994 Southdown Netball Club pbaker@servalsystems.co.uk www.southdownnetballclub.co.uk Spirit Netball Club (Lewes - jr) Karen 07899 908 456 Sussex Thunder, Storm & Lightning sussexnetballclub@yahoo.co.uk Trinity Tristars Netball Club beccakel@hotmail.com Uckfield Netball Club (junior) uccsshipley@uctc.e-sussex.sch.uk

ORIENTEERING

Southdowns Orienteers Jaquie Drake 01293 613 114 thedrakes@vuggles.co.uk www.southdowns-orienteers.org.uk

POLO

Cowdray Park 01730 813 257 www.cowdraypolo.co.uk Hickstead All England Polo Club 01273 834 315 www.hickstead.co.uk

ROWING Find your local club www.britishrowing.org/clubfinder Ardingly Rowing Club David Avery 01798 815 118 d.avery6@btinternet.com www.ardinglyrowingclub.co.uk Bexhill Rowing Club anthony.page@networkrail.co.uk www.bexhillrowingclub.com Bewl Bridge Rowing Club Martin Teale 07801 135 270 martinteale@rocketmail.com www.bewlrowingclub.co.uk Eastbourne Rowing Club Nick Norwood 07855 393 542 dave@dufrane.co.uk www.eastbournerc.co.uk Shoreham Rowing Club rowing@shorehamrowingclub.co.uk Worthing Rowing Club Martin Holden 07904 183 284 wrc@worthingrowingclub.com www.worthingrowingclub.com/

RUGBY UNION

Sussex RFU 01273 623030 sussexadmin@rfu.com www.sussexrugby.co.uk/dyn/pages/playing/ links.shtml Barns Green RFC andrewstambridge@barnsgreenrfc.co.uk www.barnsgreenrfc.co.uk Bognor RFC Andy Sweeney 01243 820 846 www.bognor-rfc.com Brighton FC (RFU) Dionne Fowle (Hon Secretary) 07778 547 625 brightonrugbyclub-enquires@hotmail.co.uk www.brightonblues.co.uk Chichester RFC 01243 779 820 secretary@chichesterRFC.co.uk www.chichesterrfc.co.uk Cinque Ports RFC 01424 722 844 info@cinqueportsrugby.co.uk www.cinqueportsrugby.co.uk Crawley RFC 01293 533 995, patrick.constance@neopost.co.uk Crowborough RFC Simon Davies 01892 663 915 sdgas@aol.com www.crowboroughrugby.com East Grinstead RFC Matt Ravenscroft 07831 721 538 secretary@egrfc.com www.egrfc.com/ Eastbourne RFC 01323 503 076 suandalwood.tiscali.co.uk www.eastbournerugby.com

Hastings & Bexhill RFC William Parker 01424 444 255 david.hirst@hastingsrugby.org.uk www.hastingsrugby.org.uk Haywards Heath RFC 01444 413 950 aj@hhrfc.co.uk www.pitchero.com/clubs/haywardsheath Heathfield & Waldron RFC Tim Ball 01435 831 142 tjgball@hotmail.com www.hwrfc.co.uk Hellingly RFC Roger White hellinglysecretary@hotmail.co.uk Holbrook RFC 01403 751 150 www.holbrookrfc.co.uk Horley RFC Barrie Edwards 07912 862 566 contact@horleyrugby.co.uk www.horleyrugby.co.uk Horsham RUFC Paul Harding 01403 265 027 chairman@horshamrufc.com www.horshamrufc.com Hove RFC Andy Ward 07789 777 475 clubhouse@hoverfc.com www.hoverfc.com Lewes RFC John Curry 01424 210 778 info@lrfc.org.uk www.lewesrfc.org.uk Littlehampton RFC Racheal Hutchings 07779 725 955 rachealh05@aol.com www.clubs.rfu.com/clubs/portals/littlehampton Midhurst RFC Simon Flint 01730 816 465 simon.flint@bbcel.co.uk www.midhurstrugby.co.uk Norfolk Arms RFC Ree 07966 815 345 www.norfolkarmsrfc.co.uk Pulborough RFC 01903 746 463 www.pitchero.com/clubs/pulborough shorehambymanager@yahoo.co.uk Rye RFC 07784 024 162 RyeRugby@Live.com www.pitchero.com/clubs/ryerfc Seaford RFC Nicky Walker 01323 441 429 www.seafordrfc.com Shoreham RFC shorehambymanager@yahoo.co.uk www.shorehamrugby.com Sussex Police RFC www.sussexpolicerfc.co.uk Uckfield RFC Kim Dunn 07905 756 271 dunnkim6@aol.com www.pitchero.com/clubs/uckfieldrfc Worthing RFC Allan Imrie 01903 784 706 Allan.Imrie@ametek.co.uk www.worthingrfc.co.uk Sussex Referees Society Phil Bowers 07930 188 560 philbowersref@aol.com / www.ssrfur.com/ Sussex Referees Society Phil Bowers 07930 188 560 philbowersref@aol.com / www.ssrfur.com/

SAILING/YACHTING

Arun Yacht Club 01903 716 016 arunyachtclub@btconnect.com www.arunyc.org.uk Ashdown Sailing Club 01342 326 901 ashdownsailingclub@yahoo.co.uk www.ashdownsailing.org.uk Bexhill Sailing Club 01424 212 906 www.bexhillsc.com Bosham Sailing Club 01243 572 341 manager@boshamsailingclub.co.uk www.boshamsailingclub.co.uk Brighton Marina Yacht Club 01273 818 711 office@bmyc.org.uk www.bmyc.org.uk Brighton Sailing Club 01273 321 802 www.brightonsailingclub.org.uk Chichester Yacht Club 01243 512 918 secretary@cyc.co.uk www.cyc.co.uk

City Livery Yacht Club 08445 730 000 www.clyc.co.uk Dell Quay Sailing Club 01243 785 080 www.dqsc.co.uk E’bourne Sovereign Sailing Club 01323 416 562 training@sailing-at-eastbourne.co.uk www.sailing-at-eastbourne.co.uk Hastings & St Leonards Sailing Club 01424 422 142 mail@hastingssc.wanadoo.co.uk www.hastingssc.org Hastings Motor Boat & Yacht Club 01424 429 779 hmbyc@supanet.com Inn Shore Cruising Club 01243 672 455 sec@innshorecruisingclub.co.uk www.innshorecruisingclub.co.uk Itchenor Sailing Club 01243 512 400 office@itchenorsailingclub.co.uk www.itchenorsc.co.uk Lancing Sailing Club 01903 766 006 memsec@lancingsc.org.uk www.lancingsc.org.uk Newhaven & Seaford Sailing Club 01323 893 542 information@nssc.org.uk www.nssc.org.uk Pagham Yacht Club 01243 265 025 commodore@pyc.org.uk www.pyc.org.uk Pevensey Bay Sailing Club 01323 761 002 dave.harrington@pbsd.org.uk www.pbsc.org.uk Shoreham Sailing Club 01273 453 078 sscmemsec@hotmail.com www.shorehamsailing.org Sovereign Harbour Yacht Club 01424 845 991 gsteven@rya-online.net www.shyc.co.uk Sussex Yacht Club 01273 464 868 secretary@sussexyachtclub.org.uk www.sussexyachtclub.org.uk Weir Wood Sailing Club 01342 828 462 info@wwsc.org.uk www.wwsc.org.uk Worthing Yacht Club 01903 249 956 www.worthingyachtclub.co.uk

SHOOTING

Fittleworth Rifle Club Sean Ide 01798 872 095 fittleworthrifleclub@hotmail.com www.fittleworthrifleclub.org Petworth & District Rifle Club John Robbins 08447 722 243 www.tates.com/Petworth/ Southwick Rifle Club Mr P. Sigournay 01903 814 642 southwickrifleclub@yahoo.co.uk

Snooker

Chichester and Dist Snooker League James 07540 497 171 jamescambray@hotmail.com

SQUASH

Sussex Squash & Racquetball www.sussexsquash.org.uk Arun Richard Laine 01243 826 612 richard.laine@ic24.net Bluecoat Sports Tony Fiveash 01403 247 572. tony@centralplanthire.co.uk www.bluecoatsports.co.uk Bognor Regis Steve Carruthers 01243 865 462 steviecarruthers@hotmail.com Brighton Dave Bowen 08456 443 417 david.bowen@worthing.gov.uk www.brightonsquash.co.uk Brighton Rackets Milli Fawssett 01273 667 888 milli.1@hotmail.co.uk Burgess Hill Andrew Eade 07794 17 4 969 andrew.eade@yahoo.co.uk

Cooden Sid Austin 01424 844 810 squash@cbssc.co.uk www.cbssc.co.uk/squash.htm Copthorne Squash Club Karl Manning 01342 715 022 karl.manning@sussexsquash.org.uk www.lafitness.co.uk/gym/gatwick Corals Andy Birch 01273 731 262 andy.birch@orionpharma.com www.coralfitness.co.uk/squash Crawley Squash Club Andrew Watts 01293 585 300 andrew.watts@zen.co.uk Crowborough Sally Powell 01892 652 618 info@crowboroughrackets.org.ok www.crowboroughrackets.org.uk David Lloyd Aaron Parkins 01323 509 802 a.parkins@sky.com Dolphin Chris Markham 01444 457 337 olymposhh@freedom-leisure.co.uk East Grinstead Andy Norris 01342 325 077 andrewgnorris@tiscali.co.uk www.egtsc.org Horsham James Norman 01403 251150 James.Norman@UK.RSAGroup.com www.horshamsquash.co.uk Lewes Bill Jeffries 01273 480 630 bill@billjeffries.co.uk www.southdownsportsclub.co.uk Littlehampton Ashley Squires 01903 713 217 a.squires@sky.com Middleton Paul Elliot 01243 583 157 hairsginger@hotmail.com www.middletonsportsclub.co.uk Midhurst David Usher 01730 816 841 rachelanddave@aol.com www.thegrange.org.uk Storrington Nathan Miller 01903 745 134 n.miller@crown-golf.co.uk www.storringtonsquashclub.co.uk Weald Trevor Morgan 01273 844 283 trevor.morgan@uk.ibm.com www.the-weald.co.uk West Worthing Pete Williams 01903 247 270 peter.williams850@ntlworld.com www.wwc.org.uk

STOOLBALL

Sussex County Stoolball Assoc Mrs Kay Price 01403 252 419

SWIMMING

1066 Swimmers SC secretary@1066swimmers.org.uk www.1066swimmers.org.uk Atlantis ASC Mr. Paul Clarke 01403 733 794 paclarke1@talktalk.net www.atlantishorsham.co.uk Beacon SC Mrs Ursula Taylor 01892 661 197 utaylor330@btinternet.com www.beaconswimmingclub.co.uk Bexhill SC Mrs.V. Tillett 01424 845 983 bexhillswimmingclub@hotmail.com Bognor Regis SC Mr D. Loveman 01243 528 095 daveloveman@lineone.net www.bognorswim.co.uk Brighton SC Mrs D. Halls 01273 475 326 denisehalls@postmaster.co.uk www.brightonsc.co.uk Brighton Dolphin SC Miss S. Naish sarah@snaish15.fsnet.co.uk www.bdsc.co.uk Chichester Cormorants SC Mrs J. Laney www.chichester-cormorants.org www.chichester-cormorants.co.uk Crawley SC Mrs E. Smith 01293 883 570 jan@cwcw.demon.co.uk www.crawleysc.ik.com East Grinstead SC Mrs. Annemarie Fox 01342 328 255 annemarie@thefoxies.com www.egsc.co.uk

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SussexSport Eastbourne SC Mr Peter Tyler 07901 769 346 ESC-HonSec@ustylers.co.uk www.eastbourneswimmingclub.org Hailsham SC Mrs E Lucani 01323 503 276 e.lucani@tiscali.co.uk www.hailshamswimmingclub.org Hastings Seagull SC Mr Graham Furness 01424 438 122 graham.furness@tiscali.co.uk Lewes SC Mr P Fouch 01273 477 365 paul@lewesswimmingclub.org www.lewesswimmingclub.org Littlehampton SC Mrs B Condron 01243 552 372 dettecondron@aol.com www.littlehamptonsc.ik.com Mid-Sussex Marlins SC Susan Lodge 01444 451 707 susan.lodge@btconnect.com www.olymposmarlins.org Penguins Swimming Lessons Linette Wheeler 01903 767 820 info@penguinswimlessons.co.uk www.penguinswimlessons.co.uk Shiverers SC Mr Derek Fowlie 07831 455 243 md@burgundywines.co.uk Worthing SC Mr P. McCallum, 01903 267 019 peterjmccallum@hotmail.com www.worthingswimmingclub.org Sussex County Amateur Swimming Assoc Chairman: Mr P McCallum 01903 267 019 peterjmccallum@hotmail.com www.sussexswimming.org/

SYNCHRONISED SWIMMING

Beacon Swimming Club (Crowborough) Mrs Ursula Taylor 01892 661 197 utaylor330@btinternet.com www.beaconswimmingclub.co.uk Brighton Dolphin Swimming Club Miss S. Naish, sarah@snaish15.fsnet.co.uk www.bdsc.co.uk Brighton Swimming Club Mrs D. Halls 01273 475 326 denisehalls@postmaster.co.uk www.brightonsc.co.uk

TABLE TENNIS

Sussex Table Tennis Alliance sussextta.co.uk Sussex County Table Tennis AssN. sctta.sussextta.co.uk/index.php Tackleway 01424 430 201

Leagues

Haywards Heath & Dist T Tennis Lge Phil Harvey 01444 242135 www.haywardsheathttl.org.uk Worthing & Dist T Tennis Lge Mrs J Mansell 01903 261 626 Battle Kevin Haffenden 07803 138 881 admin@battlettc.com www.battlettc.com BRoad. Oak TT club Paul Dustall 07985 812 001 Paul.dunstall@btopenworld.com Crawley Community TT club Ian Ford 07764 146 338 Ian.ford@horsham.gov.uk Hollingbury TT club Christine Wicks (club chairman) 01273 709 612 Cjiwcks1@yahoo.co.uk www.hollingburyttc.co.uk Horsham TT club Ian Ford 07764 146 338 Ian.ford@horsham.gov.uk www.horshamtabletennisclub.co.uk Pavilion TT club Mike Jones 07932 676 891 Mike.jones@pavilionttc.co.uk www.pavilionttc.co.uk Storrington TT club Pat Mahoharan 07897 150 108 Ian.talmadge@ips.invensys.com www.storrington-tabletennis.co.uk

Crawley & Horsham League teams Copthorne & Maidenbower M. H. Hughes 02086 683 314 Foresters D. Edwards 01293 521 643 Horsham R. Scott 07815 778 342

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Hastings League teams Bexhillians Secretary : Roger Gillett 01424 216 977.

Civil Service (Hastings) Secretary: Paul Barry 01424 431 658.

Filsham Valley (Junior) Mrs T. Bennett, 01323 484 113 Hollington Neil Stapley 01424 422 892 Monarchs (Hastings) Peter Harding 01424 712 708 Saints 01424 718 136 Tackleway Danny Rickaby 01424 430 201 Tigers (St Leonards) Miss Sheila King 01424 428 057 sheila.king@etta.co.uk www.tigerstt.mfbiz.com Travaux Cliff Duffell 01424 773 176

Worthing Dist Lge teams Steyning 07927 008 663 SteyningTTC@googlemail.com www.steyningttc.co.uk West Worthing Bruce 01903 505 666 info@wwc.org.uk www.wwc.org.uk/table_tennis.html Woodlands Mrs B Bayford 01903 773 306

Other clubs

Billinghurst Ian Ford 07764 146 338 Ian.ford@horsham.gov.uk sussextta.co.uk/clubs_billingshurst.php Brighton Tim Holtam 07985141 788 tim@brightontabletennisclub.co.uk www.brightontabletennisclub.co.uk Crawley Community Ian Ford 07764 146 338 ianfordy@aol.com www.crawleytabletennis.co.uk Lancing Ray Forder 01903 766 678 rfordertabletennis@fsmail.net North Mundham Mr Peter Baldwin 01243 860 966 peter@peterbaldwin.co.uk Woodlands (Rustington) Jim Holden 01903 782 209 woodland@tiscali.co.uk

TENNIS

Angmering-On-Sea Lawn Tennis Club Mandy Wood (membership secretary): 07790 760 210 wood.mandy@btinternet.com Chichester Racquets & Fitness Club 01243 785 664 DeputyManager@crafc.co.uk www.crafc.co.uk Cross in Hand Tennis Club Steve Godfrey 01825 830 670 crossinhandtennis@googlemail.com Tennis Sussex 01273 505 979 Sussex@LTA.org.uk LTA Tennis Development Manager Liz Squires 01273 505 979 Liz.Squires@LTA.org.uk

TRAMPOLINING

Bexhill Bouncers 01424 845 054 ianmcmullen@hotmail.co.uk Dragon Flyers T.C. Bognor Regis 01243 825 015 lindatramp@yahoo.co.uk FliteCrew Trampoline Club 01403 257 038 flitecrewlaurel@aol.com ump Trampolining Club Karen Street (head coach) 01323 508 604 karen.street@virgin.net/ www.jumptc.co.uk Orbital Stars Trampoline Club 01403 734 448 Shinewater Trampoline Club 01323 768 614 shinewater@eastbourne.gov.uk www.eastbourne.gov.uk/leisure/sport/council/ shinewater/youth/gym-and-tramp Southdowns (Lewes + Peacehaven) Malcolm Jones 01273 486 000 southdowns.gtc@ntlworld.com Southwick Trampolining Club 01273 238 111 www.impulseleisure.co.uk

Steyning Stars & Henfield Gym Club Amanda Wadman 01903 816 368 amandawadman@gmail.com www.wadmanmandy@aol.com Sussex Springers Trampoline Club Carol on 01444 831 046 www.sussexspringers.co.uk Sky Surfers Trampoline Club 01903 266 981 john.varga@ntlworld.com Sussex Martlets Trampoline Club 01903 501 798 pat@belchamber.com Up N Downs Trampoline Club 01323490 011 rebecca.hatt@waveleisure.co.uk

TRIATHLON

Amphibians 2 Triathlon Club Karen Wigmore, Club coach karen.wigmore@sky.com www.a2tri.com Brighton Phoenix Tri Malcom Hughes 01273 779 761 brightonphoenixtri@yahoo.com www.brightonphoenix.org.uk Chich’r Westgate Triathlon Club Adrian Campbell 07900 512 699 info@cwtc.org.uk www.cwtc.org.uk Crawley Tri Club Paul Holmes 01444 882 036 paul@circuit-alert.co.uk www.crawleytriclub.co.uk East Grinstead Tri Club Clare Collett, Club secretary club@egtri.com www.egtri.com Esporta Brighton Tony Wright 07767 827 446 www.esportabrighton.co.uk Mid-Sussex Triathlon Club Tamsin Douglas-Smith 01273 835 680 info@midsussextriclub.com www.midsussextriclub.com Steyning Athletic Club Joan Lennon 01903 812 569 joan.lennon@gmail.com www.steyningac.co.uk Swim-1st Triathlon Club Lee Basset 07910 532710 triathlon@swim-1st.co.uk www.swim-1sttriclub.com Tuff Fitty Triathlon Club clive.harvey@tuff-fitty.co.uk www.tuff-fitty.co.uk

VOLLEYBALL

Adur (Southwick) Tom Holt 07760 287 790 thomasholt28@hotmail.com www.adurvolleyball.co.uk Dolphins (Burgess Hill) Tom Hay 01273 546 014 tom_hays@yahoo.co.uk www.dolphinvc.co.uk Kings (East Grinstead) Simon Lewis 07917 328 871 simonklewis@aol.com Storrington Martin Fisher 07786 6426 541 martin.fisher16@btinternet.com Worthing Nigel Goldsmith 01903 263 034 nigeliangoldsmith@yahoo.com www.worthingvolleyball.co.uk Sussex Volleyball Association Richard Jennings (secretary) 01903 746 117 richard@ashdown.co.uk www.volleyballsussex.co.uk/index.htm

WATER POLO

Brighton Swimming Club David Charbit 07968 986 648 david_charbit@yahoo.co.uk www.brightonsc.co.uk Crawley Swimming Club Barry Hurst 07595 756 166 barryhurst59@aol.com www.crawleysc.ik.com Hailsham Swimming Club Jeanette Simpson 01323 440 140 Enquiries@hailshamswimmingclub.org www.hailshamswimmingclub.org/ Mid-Sussex Marlins Swimming Club Pat Bates 01444 245 920 waterpolo@olymposmarlins.org www.olymposmarlins.org/ Worthing Swimming Club Peter McCallum 01903 267 019 peterjmccallum@hotmail.com www.worthingswimmingclub.org

WATERSPORTS

Chichester Watersports Centre 01243 776 439 chichesterwatersports@btconnect.com www.chichesterwatersports.co.uk Hove Lagoon Watersports 01273 424 842 info@lagoonwatersports.co.uk www.lagoon.co.uk

WEIGHTLIFTING

Worthing Weightlifting Club John Walton 07815 938 919 johnboy.walton@hotmail.co.uk

ZORBING

Brighton (Devils Dyke) 08456 434 360 enquiries@orb360.co.uk www.orb360.co.uk Forest Row SphereMania 08448 003 045 enquiries@spheremania.com www.spheremania.com

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