On Saturday 10 November, Cllr Barry Chapman, Mayor of St Neots visited the GB Youth Dragon Boat Team at St Neots Rowing Club during one of their training sessions.
The GB under 18 and under 23 crews used St Neots as a
training venue this weekend, St Neots can now be proudly classed as one of the
three training venues for the GB under 18 and under 23 squads.
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| Dan Clarke, Matty Richardson, Cllr Barry Chapman, Nick Clarke |
All four of our junior members took part in their first
session with the squads and impressed head coach Matty Richardson, Matty is
confident that if the guys continue to develop they will have a very good shot
at reprersenting GB at the European Championships this coming July in Szeged,
Hungary. Their names are Brandon Sinclair, Jordan Vidler, Talia
Melisi and Mollie Baker, all aged between 12 and 16.
Dan Clarke said ''I as crew manager am very proud as to what has happened
this weekend, my 4 juniors have been outstanding and proved themselves to be a
real asset to our club. The profile of our sport will be raised locally and
hopefully this will result in an increase of interest from our towns
youngsters. We as a club promise to support our youngsters every step of the
way and are confident that we will see them represent Great Britain, St Neots
and our club at future international events. As a self funded club we sadly do
not have all the facilities that will give the 4 guys and girls the optimum
chance of qualifiying for seats in the squad at our disposal, so we will have
to travel to accommodate this until we get the much needed funds to purchase
the equiptment to be used at our own club.''
We are always looking to recruit new members, if any one is
interested they can find out more on our website which is www.coolrunningsdbc.com We are also starting to seek local sponsorship to develop
the club further
If you want more information about dragon boating you can
review our sports official website at www.dragonboat.org.uk
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