Barrow Borough Sports Council

Sports Performance of the Month 

June 2010 - Chetwynde Primary Swimming Team

Chetwynde Primary Swimming Team have been recognised by Barrow Borough Sports Council for their sporting achievement, by winning June’s Performance of the Month Award. In the picture they can be seen receiving their certificate from Chris Athersmith, Sports Development Officer, Barrow Borough Council and a £50 cheque from Margaret Wood, of Furness Heating Components Ltd (award sponsors).

On June 19^th, Chetwynde Primary Swimming Team competed in the National Relay Championships for Junior Schools. The team, consisting of Year 5 and 6 pupils brought home to Barrow three trophies and eight Gold medals after giving an outstanding performance in the pool.  The National Finals are held annually at Ponds Forge Sheffield's prestigious national pool. Teams from all the English schools 12 swimming Divisions qualify through heats in their own division to go forward to represent both their school and their division at the finals in Sheffield. Although Chetwynde School has smaller class sizes and therefore less pupils to choose from it consistently reaches the qualifying for these Championships.   The Medley team of Abbie Hestletine Backstroke, Chris Gunson Breaststroke, Thom Newby Freestyle and Thomas Unwin Frontcrawl started the day by taking Pole for the A Final and went on to win this race convincingly. The Freestyle team event was next for these young swimmers and they repeated their medley heat success to again grab pole position for the A Final and again went on to win Gold.  Taking first place in both of their events gave the team the National Overall Swimming Championship trophy for 2010 to go with the cups for both the Medley and the Freestyle events. This happens very infrequently at such a high level competition. The team was supported by reserves Emma Cheetham and Victoria Swan.

May 2010 - Barrow AFC

April 2010 - Dowdales Year 7 Boys Rugby Team

Dowdales School year 7 boys’ rugby league team have been recognised by Barrow Borough Sports Council for their sporting achievement, by winning April’s Performance of the Month Award. In the picture they can be seen receiving their certificate from Tony Callister of Barrow Borough Sports Council and a £50 cheque from Steve Knott, of Furness Heating Components Ltd (award sponsors).
In April, the team won through to the Carnegie National Champion Schools final which will be held, as a curtain raiser to the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final on 28th August 2010 at Wembley Stadium, London. They won the Cumbria Schools Final against St Benedicts from Whitehaven, then went to Glasgow and beat the Scottish Champions, 32-22, before again travelling away to Wakefield, where they beat hot favourites Outwood Grange High School, 20-19. Then on Thursday 29th April, they travelled to Wigan School, Abraham Guest and beat them, 14-10 after a golden point win, to earn their place in the final against Temple Moor from Leeds.
Ryan Johnson scored the crucial extra-time points for Dowdales as they became the first South Cumbrian rugby league team, other than Barrow RL, ever to reach Wembley.

March 2010 - Jamie Warriner Swimming

Jamie Warriner has been recognised by Barrow Borough Sports Council for his sporting achievement, by winning March’s Performance of the Month Award. In the picture Jamie can be seen receiving his certificate from Chris Athersmith, Sports Development Officer, Barrow Borough Council and a £50 cheque from Steve Knott, of Furness Heating Components Ltd (award sponsors).

In March, Jamie, aged 10, competed in the Disability Swimming Junior Nationals.
Jamie collected 2 golds and 3 silvers at the event in Sheffield. He won golds in the 100m butterfly and the 4x100m medley relay. He won silvers in the 100m individual medley, the 100m breaststroke and the 50m breaststroke.

Barrow Borough Sports Council receives many nominations each month, however, they would still welcome more. So if you know of any individual, group, team or club who have achieved something special, please nominate them. If it’s an individual they need to live in the Borough, and if they are a group, club or team they need to be located within the Borough. Nominations for any month must be received by 12noon on the first day of the next month. They can be made on line at www.barrowsportscouncil.org.uk or to Chris Athersmith, Barrow Borough Council, The Park Leisure Centre, Greengate Street, Barrow.

February 2010 - Emma Newsham Gymnastics

Emma Newsham has been recognised by Barrow Borough Sports Council for her sporting achievement, by winning February’s Performance of the Month Award. In the picture Emma can be seen receiving her certificate from Tony Callister of Barrow Borough Sports Council and a £50 cheque from Steve Knott, of Furness Heating Components Ltd (award sponsors).
In February, Emma won a double gold at the Cumbria Gymnastics two-piece novice competition. She won gold in the beam and vault in the under 10's category.

January - St Bernards Boys U13 Table Tennis Team

St Bernard’s School boys U13 table tennis team have been recognised by Barrow Borough Sports Council for their sporting achievement, by winning January’s Performance of the Month Award. 

In the picture they can be seen receiving their certificate from Tony Callister of Barrow Borough Sports Council and a £50 cheque from Steve Knott, of Furness Heating Components Ltd (award sponsors).

In January, the team made up of James Coward, Brendan Trainor Anton Vacca and Ross Ahern became North West Zone B Champions.  

At the finals, St Bernard’s were placed in a group with Sir Thomas Bokler School (Warrington), Brathall High School (Stockport) and Dowdales School (Dalton). They ran out comfortable winners against all 3 teams winning 8-0, 8-0 and 6-2 respectively.

In the semi final they overcame St Bedes School (Blackburn),winning quite easily 8-0. In the final, it was an all Furness affair, St. Bernard’s versus Dowdales. Again, St Bernard’s ran out comfortable winners, 7-1.

December 2009 - Ashton Coward Boxing

 

In December, the ever improving Barrow Amateur Boxing Club fighter Ashton continued his winning ways with a pair of hard fought victories. Fighting in Penrith in the first bout, Ashton won a unanimous points decision against M Jones of Oldham ABC. His reward for this victory was to be presented with his trophy by former world heavyweight champion, Frank Bruno.

Ashton’s second bout was another away trip, this time to Blackburn, where Ashton faced J McDonagh of Northside ABC. Having gained confidence from his previous bouts, Ashton took control of the fight from the beginning and despite both exchanging heavy blows, Ashton refused to stop putting the pressure on and took the win by a unanimous points decision.

November - Victoria Girls Football Team

In November, the footballing girls of Victoria Junior School were full of cheer after being crowned Cumbria School champions.
The Year 6 team saw off all-comers in Whitehaven to claim the crown, beating Scotby, Sir John Barrow and Eaglesfield schools on their way to the final. In the final Victoria beat Seaton School 1-0.

October - Barrow Raiders

In October, Barrow Raiders were victorious in the Co-operative Championship Grand Final, against Halifax. The Raiders staged a dramatic comeback to beat Halifax 26-18, after trailing 10-0 and 14-10 at different stages of a pulsating match.

Barrow’s tries came from Andreas Bauer, two, Liam Harrison, Andy Ballard and Dave Allen, with Jamie Rooney adding three conversions.

September - Ashleigh Dale Open Water Swimming

In September, Ashleigh achieved two remarkable performances. On September 3rd Ashleigh competed in the Troutbeck Bridge Open Cross Lake Windernere Championships. Ashleigh swam a distance of 1mile in a time of 21m 35seconds. Ashleigh came first out of the junior and senior ladies and also came in front of the junior and senior male swimmers.

On the 6th September, Ashleigh competed in the Junior British Long Distance Championships on Coniston Water. Ashleigh swam a distance of 5 and a half miles in a time of 1hr 55m 40s. This was Ashleigh’s first attempt at an open water event of this distance and she set a new junior British record for Coniston Water.

August - Dean Kelly

In August, Dean returned a four-time champion from the World Dwarf Games. Dean represented Great Britain at the games, held in Belfast. Dean brought home an impressive medal haul of four golds and three silvers.
After a lot of training in the build up to the games, Dean produced the goods when it mattered most in Northern Ireland. He bagged gold medals in the 100m, 200m, relay and football. His silvers came in powerlifting, javelin and discus.
Dean’s favourite achievement was winning the football tournament, beating the American side 3-2 on penalties. Dean even got on the scoresheet in the semi-final against the host nation, bagging a brace and helping his team progress.

Thank you to our sponsors Furness Heating Components LTD