David Moorcroft Presents Team West Midlands with the Wilkinson Sword

The former Great Britain middle and long distance runner, David Moorcroft, presented the West Midlands region with the Wilkinson Sword at the recent West Midlands Community Sports Awards at Aston Villa Football Club. The inaugural event, which took place on Wednesday 4^th December, recognised the quality, commitment and dedication of grassroots sport in the region of which the Association of Colleges (AoC) West Midlands was a principal supporter.
 

From left to right: David Moorcroft, students Beth Wragg, Will Richardson and BCS Regional Co-ordinator, Liz Fletcher.

(Image courtesy of the Black County BeActive Partnership)

The evening also saw Team GB Gymnast and Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Medalist, Kristian Thomas, present Alex Giles from Dudley College with the AoC West Midlands Further Education Sport – Student Role Model of the Year Award. Runners up Beth Wragg (Newcastle – under – Lyme College) and Matthew Arnold (Hereward College) also received Highly Commended Awards as all three students were recognised for being a positive role model by going that extra mile to help out in the college community.

The Wilkinson Sword is currently touring around the colleges within the West Midlands region in recognition of Team West Midlands success by winning the 2013 National Championships back in April. Since the Championships the sword has been to Birmingham Met, King Edward VI Stourbridge, Worcester Sixth Form, Worcester College of Technology, North Warwickshire and Hinckley, North East Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire and Hereford Sixth Form Colleges before its stop off at Aston Villa.

 

Cross country runner for Team West Mids, Joe Donkin and the catering students of Worcester College of Technology with the Wilkinson Sword. 

(Images courtesy of Worcester College of Technology)

On the evening Beth Wragg was joined by Will Richardson, Vice-Captain of the National Championship winning Men’s Volleyball Team from Newcastle-under-Lyme College to collect the Wilkinson Sword.  Beth and Will collected the sword on behalf of the 2013 Team West Midlands captains Jordan Adelburgh (Newcastle-under-Lyme College) and Sophie Masterson (Hartpury College) who were unable to make the awards.

The Wilkinson Sword will be carrying on its journey around the West Midlands colleges before arriving at the University of Bath for the 36^th BCS National Championships on the 4 – 6^th April 2014 with the region hoping to retain the title.

TEAM:NULC Sports Results- Wednesday 11th December

ACADEMY OF SPORT

SPORTS RESULTS THIS WEEK- WEDNESDAY 11^th December

 

 

·       Midland Floodlit Men’s Football- (home) TEAM:NULC vs Sutton Coldfield Town FC

 

·       Category 1 Men's Football – (home) TEAM:NULC 1-2 South Gloucestershire & Stroud College

 

·       Category 2 Men's Football – (away) TEAM:NULC 1-1 Sandwell Academy College

 

·       Category 3 Men's Football – (away) TEAM:NULC 0-6 Stafford College 1^st

 

·       Category 4 Men’s Football- (home) TEAM:NULC 6-2 Stoke-on-Trent College 1^st

 

·       Category 5 Men’s Football (home) TEAM:NULC 6-2 Staffordshire University 3^rd

 

·       Men’s Basketball- (away) TEAM:NULC 88-41 University College Birmingham

 

·       Ladies Netball- (home) TEAM:NULC 50-25 Hereford 6^th Form College

 

·       Ladies Basketball- (home) TEAM:NULC 22-6 Staffordshire University

 

·       Men’s Rugby- (away) TEAM:NULC 19-0 Birmingham Metropolitan College

 

Performance of the Week

This has to go to the men's rugby squad as they travelled down to Birmingham Metropolitan College and came away with a great 19-0 win. Great results lads and well done to all.

 

 

TEAM:NULC Sports Results- Wednesday 4th December

ACADEMY OF SPORT

SPORTS RESULTS THIS WEEK- WEDNESDAY 4^th December

 

·        Category 1 Men's Football – (home) TEAM:NULC 0-1 Tresham College

 

·        Category 2 Men's Football – (home) TEAM:NULC 2-4 Smestow College

 

·        Category 3 Men's Football – (home) TEAM:NULC 0-3 TEAM:NULC Cat 4 College

 

·        Men’s Basketball- (home) TEAM:NULC 64-23 Solihull College

 

·        Ladies Netball- (home) TEAM:NULC 53-33 Cirencester College

 

·        Ladies Basketball- (away) TEAM:NULC 38-34 Dudley College

 

·       Men’s Rugby- (home) TEAM:NULC 10-14 Henley College Coventry

 

 

Performance of the Week

This week it has to go to the ladies netball squad who managed to win convincingly against historical rivals Cirencester College. It further re-enforces them as serious title contenders within the West Midlands Premier League.

 

STARS LAUNCH NIGHT AT NULC WITH OLYMPIAN BETH TWEDDLE!

On Wednesday 20 March, 120 athletes and parents attended the North Staffordshire STARS event at NULC.  STARS squad members are pupils aged from 11-16 who attend a North Staffordshire school and are national standard in their sport.  The City of Stoke Gymnastics Club elite squad also attended the evening.  2 workshops were put on to inspire and inform the young athletes in their future career.

BRIAN BARTON is a national trainer with UK Anti Doping and worked at the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics and is a former coach for British Cycling.  He delivered a session about drugs in sport and the testing procedure.  It was very informative both for the athletes and the parents about how they will be drug tested and what supplements to avoid taking.

BETH TWEDDLE is Britain’s greatest ever female gymnast with an Olympic Bronze 2012 Medal, triple World Champion, six times European Champion, Commonwealth Champion and seven times National Champion.  We were extremely pleased for Beth to be able to come to NULC in her busy schedule.  Beth delivered an inspirational session on how she developed from being a talented youngster to becoming a World Champion and Olympic medallist.  The athletes and parents were encouraged to ask questions, as well as having photographs with Beth and her Olympic medal.

The evening was thoroughly enjoyed by all and gave the athletes a lot of information to think about and how it relates to their own sporting careers and life.