End of season award special! 

Thank you to everyone who attended the awards evening last night, general consensus seemed to be a successful and enjoyable evening. Great to see so many young and talented athletes and supportive parents. 

Thanks to Maggie and Vicki for presenting the awards, Morag for organising the food, Tim for organising the event and trophies, Louise and Mark for the raffle and the door! Thanks also the Beth for her fab Twitter presence and to the coaches for describing their season and their presents for helpers! 

Photographs will soon be available on http://photomidgley.zenfolio.com soon and you can purchase them off the website. 

Here is a full list of winners. Anyone not present, please get in touch and we will get your award to you. We also have some unclaimed U11A medals (Helena) and U14B medals (Mariana). 

Leeds Athletic - End of Season Awards

Under 11's
Coaches Special Award - Sorcha Kelly
Under 11's A Coaches Most Improved award - Hannah Priestley 
Under 11's B Coaches Most Improved award - Grace Turner
Under 11's A Coaches Player of the Year - Eavie Amos
Under 11's B Coaches Player of the year - Scarlett Birdsall
Under 11's A Overall Player of the Match Award - Molly Gray
Under 11's B Overall Player of the Match Award - Emma Leggett

Under 12's
Coaches Special Award - Georgina Pettit
Coaches Most Improved award -Holly Hilton
Under 12's A Coaches Player of the Year - Anna Boocock
Under 12's A Players player of the Year - Molly Dexter
Under 12's B Coaches Player of the year - Georgina Swift
Under 12's B Players Player of the Year - Charlie Rea Nelson

Under 14's
Coaches Special Award - Georgia Pexton
Players & Coaches Award - Annie James
Under 14's A Coaches Player of the Year - Charlotte Mannal
Under 14's A Most improved player of the Year - Sasha Bletcher
Under 14's B Coaches Player of the year - Maisie Bickerton
Under 14's B Most improved Player of the Year - Holly Barber

Under 16's
Under 16's Coaches Player of the Season - Alexandra Shipley
Under 16's Players Player of the Season - Louise Marsden

Seniors
Overall Coaches Most Improved Player of the season - Lexy Shipley
Overall - Coaches "Special" Award - Kirsty Hemmingway
Coaches Player of the Season Premier League - Tuaine Keenan
Coaches Player of the Season - Northern League - Georgie Thomson
Coaches Player of the Season - Regional League - Emma Lock
Coaches player of the Season - West Yorkshire League - Lucy Lister

I hope to be in touch soon with details of the coaching team for next season. 

Good luck to the U12 in their regional competition next weekend, we expect to hear great things! 

VOLUNTEERS
We have a couple of opportunities. If there a parent who would be happy to the responsibility for kit bags and periodically checking they have everything they need eg first aid etc. This isn't an onerous job, but is important and needs someone who likes to be organised! Also, if we have any parents who fancy getting into coaching, here's some starter courses. The club will try and support people who are keen, providing they commit to stay with the club to ensure some return on our investment. 

UKCC Level 1:

Where:  Bradford Academy 
When: 11th October 2015 & 8th November 2015
Time: 9am – 6pm (both days)
Cost: £150 affiliated, £180 non affiliated

UKCC Level 1:

Where: English Institute of Sport, Sheffield 
When:  17th October 2015 & 28th November 2015
Time: 9am – 6pm (both days)
Cost: £150 affiliated, £180 non affiliated

Booking form for both courses can be downloaded here. 

U14 CLUB NATIONALS
U14 did very well to finish 4th at Club Nationals this weekend. They matched the recent U16 performance and this was the best ever club finish for U14. Pictures are on the website. Thanks for the support through Twitter! A realistic target for next year's teams must be to get a podium finish if the girls start working now! Brilliant experience for players, coaches and parents/supporters. Thanks to all involved, especially the coaches. 

END OF SEASON CELEBRATION EVENT
Trophies have been engraved and have arrived, food is being ordered, photographer organised, PA system will be set upgrades are being organised! Make sure you're there!  Friday 29 May, Leo's Rugby Club. We had said BBQ, but it will just be snack food in case we have rain!! Awards for each age group and seniors, team photographs, food and drink!!   Particular thanks for U12 parents for printing tickets and to the Church family for  providing a £250 COOP electrical voucher as the raffle prize! If you want to go, but haven't seen anyone to buy a ticket, email Tim tim@light-fish.co.uk.

COMPETITIONS
We now just have the U12 regional tournament on 7 June, and some of our Little LANC players travelling to compete in tournaments in Manchester in June/July. Best of luck! 

TRIALS FOR 2015/16 SEASON
Information and entry form will be available in June. 

FUNRUN!
As preparation and team building for Club Nationals, some of the U14A did the Coloumerad run recently. Some good pictures of here of U14A doing the fun run. Be a great things for lots of club members to do next year! 
http://www.leedsathleticnetballclub.org.uk/news/u14a-girls-running-at-colour-me-rad

ENGLAND MATCH
Tickets will soon be available for the england warm up match, before the team leaves for the World Cup. This is 11 July at Huddersfield. Should be a great afternoon of high quality netball. 

GOOD LUCK
to our athletes who are taking part in the Jets Summer Programme, or preparing for other trials through the summer. Massive good luck to Natalie and Sally who start their England camp next Monday, 

A selection of pictures to show what an amazing weekend the girls had at U14 Club Nationals, finishing 4th in the country, having fun, and learning lots. Parents and supporters also enjoyed and coaches were fantastic. Well done and thanks everyone.

U16 Nationals performance, Gateways success, LANC End of season do, training dates,  trials date, Jets stuff

U16 had a great first day in Essex, unbeaten and against some tough sides. This got them into competing for a top 6 place on day 2, a massive achievement. The girls won one on Sunday, then met two very strong sides and came 4th overall. So, that's 4th out of 18 teams who qualified for Nationals and out of the many hundreds of teams who started the competition. Huddersfield Giants, the other team representing Yorkshire, finished 17th. Well done to players and coaches, no doubt a long, tiring but hopefully enjoyable trip to Essex! 

• Well done to Gateways who won Regional School U12 Netball Comp, with a few of our U12s playing. 
  
• The Allus tournament our U12 should have been in was cancelled due to bad weather.  
  
• Netball Nights Summer League is going well so far. A team have won their first two matches, with B team winning one of theirs and losing one (to the A team). 
  

LAST TRAINING SESSION - seniors and u16 have already finished. U12 & U14 finish this week, apart from those extra sessions for those still in competitions and where additional payment has been made. u11 finish at the end of this month. DRINKS ON SALE THIS WEEK, 50p! 

LEEDS ATHLETIC - END OF SEASON CELEBRATION EVENT  - Tickets on sale!!! MUST BUY THIS WEEK!!! 
- end of season party Friday 29 May, Leo's Rugby Club. Awards for each age group and seniors, team photographs, food and drink!!   Particular thanks for U12 parents for printing tickets and to the Church family for  providing a £250 COOP electrical voucher as the raffle prize! If you want to go, but haven't seen anyone to buy a ticket, email Tim tim@light-fish.co.uk.

TRIALS FOR 2015/16 SEASON - trial date Sunday 30 August at Beckett, all day. We will also run an U11 festival again as well. Times for each age group will be confirmed in June and invitation to trial will be issued probably in June. The date isn't perfect, because it is BH and some will still be away.  Impossible to go later though because of some WY County trials and then some Jets trials for age groups on other weekends in September. If people are away on holiday, then it will be possible to trial at the first training session. Information about next year's training will be on the web most probably in June. 

JETS - had a great end to the season, playing at the CopperBox and just narrowly loosing to Thunder in 3/4 play off. Natalie got the Sky Sports Player of the season (thanks to many of you who voted). Timmy got Golden Goal prize for the most goals scored through the SL competition! So a great end to the season for Jets. LANC sponsored the "most improved Jets Player" and this went to Lydia Walker, who of course plays for Leeds Athletic.