Partnership Youth Games Success
The Tees Valley Youth Games were held at Eston on Sunday March 7th and proved a big success attracting over 500 young people. The Games target young people aged 16-19 and are specifically aimed at recruiting new participants into sports and those who might have stopped playing sport after leaving school.
Tamara Taylor provided an inspirational speech at the opening ceremony. Tamara is a member of the England Women’s Rugby Team and is currently involved with the team in the 6 Nations championship. She was followed by The Worshipful The Mayor, Councillor Brian Briggs from Redcar and Cleveland Council who formally opened the Games.
The young people took part in seven sports on the day; netball, table tennis, rock-it-ball, street dance, basketball, trampolining and girls and disability football. The Games were an exciting culmination to a busy programme of training and competition arranged through Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Stockton, Redcar and Cleveland and Darlington Sports Development Teams. A number of inclusive competitions were also held on the day contributing to the development of disabled young people in sport.
Hartlepool proved to be the overall Games winners after a day of tough competition, closely followed by Stockton as runners-up.
Individual Team winners for each sport were;
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Table Tennis |
Male |
Hartlepool |
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Basketball |
Male |
Hartlepool |
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Female |
Hartlepool | |
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Football |
Disability |
Redcar and Cleveland |
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Female |
Hartlepool | |
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Netball |
Disability |
Stockton |
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Female |
Darlington | |
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Trampolining |
Open |
Stockton |
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Rock-it-ball |
Open |
Stockton |
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Dance |
Open |
Hartlepool |
Jean Lordon, Executive Director of Tees Valley Sport said “it was a great day of competition played in a tremendous spirit by all the young people involved. Special thanks also go to the people who made the Games happen - the sports development teams, competition coordinators, school and college sports coordinators, coaches and team managers”.
The event is one of the showcase events of the Tees Valley Sport Partnership and is also a key event linked to the Tees Valley London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games legacy.
