College students celebrate more national sporting success

Newcastle-under-Lyme College’s Academy of Sport is celebrating as 5 more students have recently been selected for national representative trials. Jessica Barnes has been selected for the English Colleges under 19’s North ladies Netball squad, Kieran Bedford for the English Colleges under 19 men’s Hockey Squad, and Peter Manning, Zac Chadwick and Taz Wara for the English Colleges under 19 Men’s North Rugby Squad. All of the students went through a number of local, regional and national trials to achieve this amazing success.

The 3 students formed a group of 15 students that reached the West Midlands squads, and further re-enforces Newcastle-under-Lyme’s College’s status as one of the top in the West Midlands.   

All of the students form part of the Colleges Elite Sports Performance programme and regularly compete for the colleges Academy programmes.