Updated 17th January 2012

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Godalming Angling Society
Best Club Award

The Godalming Angling Society has been awarded Best Club 2011 in the London and South East region by the Angler's Mail publication. The entry below is reprinted with their kind permission. 

The London and South East region is home to some of the best rivers, fisheries, tackle shops and clubs in the country. In the South East we are spoilt for top clubs. In first place is Godalming AS of Surrey (www.godalminganglingsociety.co.uk), contact Malcolm Richardson on 01483422791), because I believe Johnson's Lake could produce a record crucian carp plus specimens of other species. Their Marsh Farm is another legendary home of big crudans whilst Broadwater is a noted carp home. These locations along with extensive fishing on the River Wey, with most species present, are included in the Membership price of  £70 for adults plus a one-off £65 joining fee (plus various concessions).

Sports Awards
25 November 2011

Sport Godalming held their annual awards presentation on Friday 25th November 2011 at the Charterhouse sports centre in Godalming. The evening was sponsored by Downs solicitors and notaries. Special guests included the Mayor of Waverley, Cllr Richard Gates and Mrs Evelyn Gates and the Mayor of Godalming, Cllr Steve Cosser and Mrs Sheila Cosser.

The Commonwealth rifle man Jon Underwood, lifted the Charterhouse Club Shield after being named Sports personality of the year, holding off strong claims for the top award from the Commonwealth Games discus thrower, Chris Scott who was named runner up for the second year running, with Savate French kickboxing champion Rachel Shore taking third.

Jon Underwood receiving the Charterhouse Club Shield
for Sports Personality of the year
from Tim Ostle of the Charterhouse club
Photo courtesy Len Deeley

The Spectrum Savate team put on a dynamic demonstration with the Sport's fascinating history and competition rules described by Savate head coach and the Chris and Jenny Slyfield Trophy winner, Martin Ross.

Spectrum Savate Club demonstration
Photo courtesy Len Deeley

Para equestrian Nicky Thompson winner of the Godalming Angling Society shield gave a very illuminating talk and Q and A session on her sport of blind dressage. She won all 10 para equestrian qualifiers this year and is also winning medals internationally. She is a para Olympic hopeful for 2012 and one of Sport Godalming Go for Gold Athletes.

16 year old slalom and giant slalom specialist Rachelle Rogers picked up the Denningberg Shield youth prize for the 2nd year in succession in recognition of her sweeping successes on the pistes around Europe. Since the Sports Awards Rachelle has been selected for the youth winter Olympic games in Innsbruck, which is an outstanding achievement. Maddy Austin was runner up after a very impressive year running the 800m at Guildford and Godalming Athletic club. Michael Grove, bronze medallist in the Savate Youth World Championships, came third in this category.

Michael (Mick) Coleman President of Hambledon football club and Hambledon Cricket club won the Downs award for his outstanding service and contribution to sport.

Guildford Rugby clubs under 12 National Braemar Cup winning side were the Go Godalming Shield youth team winners, retaining the shield after a truly remarkable year. They played 29 competitive matches winning 28 of them, drawing the other and not conceding a single try in any of them!

Shields and Trophies were presented by the Mayor of Waverley, Cllr Richard Gates, the Mayor of Godalming, Cllr Steve Cosser, Tim Ostle from the Charterhouse Club, Joy Poulter from Go Godalming, Chris Slyfield and Chris Millar from Downs solicitors.

Thanks to Chris Dyke to from the Surrey Advertiser for the significant support and coverage in the Surrey Advertiser throughout the year. And a very big thank you to Len Deeley, vice Chairman of the Godalming photographic club, for all the photographs taken on the night and reprinted here.

Godalming Rotary Club
boosts the Go for Gold Champions Fund
November 7th 2011

In a very generous gesture of support, Tony Luscombe, President of the Rotary Club of Godalming Woolsack, presented a cheque for £500 to David Anderson of Sport Godalming for the Go for Gold Champions fund. It was the culmination of an evening organised by the Rotary Club of Godalming Woolsack to honour our local Olympic hopefuls and give them further financial support for their training. Olympic hopefuls Chris Scott and Liz Ng attended the event and gave a fascinating description of their training regime and answered questions from the audience. Members of the Godalming Lions also attended the dinner and met the aspiring Olympic athletes. Many thanks go to the Rotary Club for their generous support in our campaign.

Sport Godalming's 1st Sporting Dinner a huge success
November 3rd 2011

The first Sporting Dinner held at Charterhouse Great Hall was a great evening, raising funds of around £5500 for Go for Gold and the Surrey Cricket Foundation. The very entertaining guest speakers were Richard Stilgoe, Mickey Stewart and Neil Snowball from the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG). Many thanks to Michael O’Sullivan and David Kingsmill who worked very hard to organise this successful event.

Paul Wycherley beats Olympic canoeing champion
for right to compete in World Championships in Hungary.

Paul Wycherley lost the first of the race-off contests against Tim Brabants at Eton's Dorney Lake (July 2011) but forced a decider by winning the second. The third and final race took place, with Wycherley winning it by a margin of well under half a second.

Paul Wycherley

"That was one of the toughest races I've done," Wycherley told BBC Sport's Ollie Williams. "Tim is the Olympic champion and an enormously brilliant paddler. The last half of the race was a war of attrition. I had to dig very deep - and then dig some more." bbc.co.uk 21st July 2011

Sport Godalming & Surrey Cricket Foundation
Sporting Dinner
Thursday 3rd November 2011

Sport Godalming are delighted to co-host with the Surrey Cricket Foundation a Sporting Dinner at Charterhouse School. Our guest speakers at the 3rd November event in the impressive setting of The Great Hall are Richard Stilgoe and Mickey Stewart.

Contact Michael O'Sullivan for more information and bookings at mosullivan03@gmail.com or phone 07768 950801.

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Another Great Turnout for Sport Godalming "Sports for All" day

This year's Sports for All day on 7th May 2011 was held in the heart of Godalming on The Burys field. This easy to reach location proved a great success factor with hundreds of residents in and around Godalming trying their hand at a great range of sports offered by local clubs.

Fifteen local clubs were represented offering taster sessions of the activities in their clubs to interest people to join up. Sports as diverse as kick boxing to baseball and bowling were represented. The all day event was attended by long standing Sport Godalming supporter, the Mayor of Waverley, Councillor Carole Cockburn.

FULL ARTICLE HERE

picture courtesy of Surrey Advertiser

2011 London Marathon Fundraising Bid

Richard Braid

As part of our fundraising push during 2011 Richard Braid ran the London Marathon in April for the Sport Godalming Go for Gold Champions Fund. You may follow his training programme and make donations through the Just Giving website. Please donate to pledge your support for Richard and Go for Gold, however small…. it all helps.

Richard ran a fantastic 3 hours 15 minutes that placed him 2275 overall and 470 in his age group. The heat made it a hard run and he suffered some cramp in the very last stages but that did not stop him going better than his target, great effort and to date he has raise £1425 , excluding gift aid, that much exceeds our hopes. A big thank you Richard from us all.
The site is still open if there are any last donations to come or go to his just giving page to see how he found the run'

Liz Ng and Rachelle Rogers
Godalming's Sports Personalities of the Year

Liz Ng with Tim Ostle

Godalming Sports Stars Shine
at Commonwealths

Liz Ng and Nikki Barlow strike gold at Commonwealths

Amazing results for our local sports champions at the Commonwealths:

• Jon Underwood bronze in the shooting pairs
• Chris Scott 7th in the discus
• Liz Ng and Nikki Barlow gold in the foils team event
• Liz Ng 5th in the foils individuals
• Nikki Barlow 11th in the foils individuals

Jon Underwood celebrates bronze at Commonwealths

Earlier in the summer Adelle Tracey became the English Schools Champion at 800 metres and Paul Wycherley was 12th in the K4 kayak world championships and 6th in the individuals in the World Cup. Plenty more great results but these are the highlights.

All this makes the prospects for 2012 look good. We are proud of them. Come and meet them on the 27 November at the Charterhouse Club stand at the Godalming Christmas Festival.

2010 Bowls Championships Results

Elizabeth Ng
Fencing Successes

Picture courtesy of Jasmine Ng

Having won gold whilst fencing for England at the Senior 5 Nations in June, 19 year old Elizabeth Ng in her last year as a Junior, went one better for a double podium position at the annual British Senior National Championships 2010 held in Sheffield on the weekend of 24th/25th July, where she won the individual women's foil silver on Saturday in a field of 67 women, winning all her fights, bar one in the final against GB's 26-year-old Natalia Sheppard.

Her next major competition will be fencing for England at the Senior Commonwealth Fencing Championships in Melbourne in early October 2010.

‘Sports for All’ Day 23 May 2010
at the Rugby Club
featured in Surrey Advertiser

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Sport Godalming
working hard to promote
our members' activities at local shows

Godalming Town Show June 2010
Picture courtesy of Phil Kemp

Cash Boost Such GR-EIGHT News

Olympic yachtsman George Skuodas (back centre)
with Adelle Tracey, Chris Scott, Robyn Bignell, Nikki Barlow,
Matt Welch, Elizabeth Ng and Nicky Thompson

A further four very talented athletes with 2016 as their targets, Matthew Shorrock and Mary Fenton-Jones both sailors, Ryan Webb ice hockey player and Alek Makucewicz a fencer each received £100.

Matthew Shorrock, Mary Fenton-Jones and Alek Makucewicz

Article by kind permission of The Surrey Advertiser. Pictures courtesy of Phil Kemp.

GOLO donates to Go for Gold

GOLO's Joy Poulter with chairman David Anderson and
Go For Gold athletes (from left) Adelle Tracey, Matt Welch and Robyn Bignell

Joy Poulter presented a cheque for £500 to David Anderson Chairman of Sport Godalming from GOLO, The Godalming Lottery. This is their second donation and the athletes were able to thank GOLO on behalf of Sport Godalming for their generosity.

Picture courtesy of Phil Kemp.

Go For Gold Featured in Round & About Magazine
April 2010
Read article HERE

European Success
for Godalming's Savate Club

James Antill (left) and Rachel Shore with GB coach Martin Ross

Two members of the Spectrum Savate Club based at Broadwater School Gym were selected to represent the UK at the European Championships held in Spain for 'assaut' style Savate with Martin Ross who runs the local club as the GB National Coach. The event attracted fighters from all over Europe including Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal Slovenia, Serbia, Belgium, Finland and Croatia

Both fighters, James Antill and Rachel Shore, reached the finals and came away with very worthy silvers and some fancy titles:

James Antill

James Antill is now officially titled as the Vice European Champion and was awarded the Silver medal in the men's 70kg - 75kg category.

Rachel Shore

Rachel Shore is now officially titled as the Vice European Championne and was awarded the Silver medal in the women's 60kg - 65kg category.

Congratulations to them and to Martin Ross as their coach here in Godalming.

Pictures courtesy of Martin Ross