North Yorkshire Youth Games 2010 Sponsored by York St John
The Youth Games sponsored by York St John University is now in its 11th year, and is the pinnacle of youth sport in North Yorkshire. On Sunday 4th July Queen Margaret’s School in Escrick plays host to this prestigious event.
The event boasts over 1300 young people competing in 10 different sports competitions. These 1300 young people started their sporting journey in January, in the individual school sport competitions. From there the winning teams will go on to represent their school against other schools in their district to earn the right to represent their area in their chosen sport.
The Youth Games sees the wider North Yorkshire Sporting partnership coming together to help organise and run the Youth Games. It sees sports staff from Craven, Harrogate, Hambleton, York, Ryedale, Scarborough, Richmond and Selby, working with the 10 School Sport Partnerships, Competition Managers, and sports National Governing Bodies to ensure this fantastic event provides an opportunity for the competitors to showcase their skills. As a result of the Youth Games, there will be opportunities for the competitors to continue playing sport within local accredited sports clubs.
There are ten sports this year, cheerleading, tag rugby, tennis, football, hockey, netball, gymnastics, cricket, swimming and sports ability. The varied array of sports allows young people who might not otherwise have had an opportunity to represent their district to have that opportunity to show their sporting prowess.
It is great news that we have secured the support of York St John University, and this will open a number of other sporting opportunities for the sports partnership across North Yorkshire. Pauline Gacal, Dean of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at York St John University, said:
“We are pleased to be working in partnership with North Yorkshire Sport in supporting the North Yorkshire Youth Games. Not only does it provide an opportunity for our students to be involved as volunteers supporting local school sports activities, but also in coaching budding sports stars and raising aspirations amongst local school children to consider higher education in the future. This is an exciting development and will lead to further collaboration to improve participation in sport across the county.”
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