Sport Godalming Sports Awards Finals
Sponsored by Downs Solicitors
25th November 2011
Charterhouse Sport's Centre 7pm

All photos this page courtesy of Vee Avenell

Sports Personality of the Year
Charterhouse Club Shield

Winner:  Elizabeth Ng (Fencing)
Second:  Chris Scott (Athletics - Discus)
Third: Sarah Taylor (Lacrosse)

Commendations: Sheila Seddon (Bowls); Adelle Tracey (Athletics); Gordon Croucher (Cycling)

Liz Ng with Tim Ostle

Liz NG is a member of the AFC fencing club in Farncombe. Here are her achievements this year.

Liz won a Silver medal in the British junior championships, which were held in Sheffield, in October 2009. In January 2010 she won a Bronze medal at the Essex open in Colchester. She competed at the world junior and cadet championship in Baku in April 2010 for Great Britain. Won Gold, in the women’s foil at the Chichester open in May 2010. In June 2010, Liz was appointed Captain of the winning England Women’s Foil team at the senior 5 nations in St Albans. She won Individual silver; and team gold at the British senior national championships again in Sheffield, in July 2010.

Youth Sports Personality of the Year
The Denningberg Shield

Winner:  Rachelle Rogers (Skiing) 
Second:  Charles Welch (Kayaking)
Third:  Brendan McCarthy (Football)

Commendation: Gabrielle Morgan (Cricket)

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Rachelle Rogers is a pupil at St Catherine’s school and is an accomplished skier. She has had some pleasing results over the last 12 months and in April moved up from the Children (CH2) to Junior (JN1) age category enabling her to start competing in the adult Federation International du Ski (FIS) races.  Her debut race was in Cerro Castor in Argentina and she gained the highest debut points in the Southern Hemisphere in Giant Slalom.  She has been selected into the British Junior Alpine Ski team for 2010/11.  The FIS races are much more challenging and physically demanding, Rachelle has been fortunate to be given the opportunity to develop her core fitness and overall strength at The Charterhouse Club.
 
Her results are even more impressive but rather than giving you the long list that was submitted may we just say that she came first in several competitions she entered in the UK and France.

Sports Team of the Year
Waverley Shield

Kevin Young, Jane Phillips and Bill Kyte with Roger Humphrey, Ray Cotton and Christina Hales

Last season Godalming Town Football Club 1st XI enjoyed the greatest season in the history of the club. They finished 4th in the Ryman South league but reached the play off final. They memorably won the Surrey Senior Cup by beating Sutton Utd 2 – 1 in the final.

Youth Sports Team of the Year
Go Godalming Shield

Winner:  Guildford Rugby Club Under 12 Team
Second:   Rodborough School Year 11 Girls Sports Team
Third:  St Catherine's School U13 National Biathalon Team

Commendations: St Catherine’s School U13 Cross Country Team; Chandler Junior School U11 Netball Team; Godalming College British College Sports National representatives; Godalming College Rugby Team; Godalming Swimming Club; Milford Pumas U16 Football Team; Godalming Cricket Club U17 Team, Rodborough School U16 Cricket Team.

Guildford Rugby Club U12 team with Joy Poulter

As Simon Rhodes, co chair of the Guildford rugby club mini section, a coach of the u12s and a very proud father tells us…2010 was an extremely memorable and successful year for the Guildford under 11 side who have just become under 12. In the 2009/2010 season the team scored 107 tries and only conceded 2. After winning all their club fixtures and the Effingham and Leatherhead festival the season came to a successful climax when they became County Champions by winning the Surrey A festival. This was all the more impressive as they did not concede a try in the process.

As county champions they duly qualified for the National championships, which were held at the beginning of the season.  This tournament consisted of the County Champions of the largest mini rugby playing counties in the Country. They won and secured the Braemar Cup with a running try count of 54-0.

William Sutcliffe, Jonathan Burke, Harry Turner, William Gumpel, Ben “Boris” Bradley, Louis Edmondes, Matthew Edmondes, Jack Johnson, Tom Heyes, Sebastian Friedrich, Jamie Cotta, George Rhodes, Charlie Crawford, Miles MacDuffus, Max Texier, Edward Tristem, Freddie Impey, Jack Taylor, Ben Taylor, Zach McArthur. The coaches are Jon Gumpel, Simon Burke and Simon Rhodes.

Disabled Sports Award
The Godalming Angling Society Shield

Winner: Nicky Thompson (Equestrian - Dressage)
Second: Jill Alexander (Carriage Driving)

Nicky Thompson and Gary Greenhill with Malcolm Richardson

Nicky Thompson is a blind dressage rider in only her second year of competing and yet she has achieved significant results. She competed for Great Britain at her first International competition, taking individual 3rd. She competed for South East region in the Para Inter-Regional, leading the team to victory and taking individual second. She has been placed 2nd in all 3 National competitions, beaten only by the current world champion.

Sport Godalming
Bowls Competition

Winners:
Bob Archer (Mens)
Holloway Hill Bowls Club
Sheila Seddon (Ladies)
Milford Bowls Club

Bob Archer with Mayor Jane Thomson and David Anderson

Sheila Seddon with with Mayor Jane Thomson and David Anderson

Club Long Service Award 

Winner:  Maggs Kyte
(Guildford Hockey Club)

Maggs Kyte with Bill Braid

Maggs Kyte has been involved in the Guildford Hockey Club Colts for about the last 20 years. She has inspired thousands of people, young and old to be involved in hockey. When she started the junior programme was quite small with just a handful of teams. The club has now expanded and has a boys and girls team in every age group from U9 to U18. The youth sections are thriving with membership growing all the time. Maggs is an excellent coach and has run the Surrey Youth Games team for Guildford since it started and also is a lead Coach in the Surrey Junior Development programme.

Maggs is known in the club as the person who does everything. She leads on membership, fixtures, umpires and recruitment and deployment of coaches. It is very difficult to imagine how the club would run without her. She literally organises hundreds of people a week into competitive teams.
On top of the work with the colts, Maggs also does the same for the Ladies section – organising fixtures and finding available players so that all the teams can have a game. Maggs has probably worked every Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the last 20 years running an amazing club with an enormous membership and most of all ensuring that everyone who wants to play can enjoy their hockey.

Sport Godalming
Shield for Club Excellence Award

Winner:  Godalming Swimming Club

Bob Cox (President) and club members with Mayor Jane Thompson

Godalming Swimming Club had some outstanding performances in a number of swimming galas and performed well in the Rother league having been promoted at the end of the previous season. The highlights of the year were wins in the following swimming galas:

27th February 2010 – Godalming retained the Dorking Moyce Cup swimming against teams from Sutton, Wey Valley, and Tonbridge as well as two teams from the hosts Dorking.
8th May 2010 – Godalming won the Angela Sharp trophy at Trinity school in Croydon. Godalming faced tough competition against two teams from Sutton Atlantis Swimming Club the trophy holders for the last four years, the Beacon Swimming Club from Crowborough, Tandridge Aquarius Swim Squad (TASS) and the Chislehurst Millennium Swim Squad. The win in the final squadron meant that Godalming had increased their lead finishing 1st on 255 points. The all round excellence of the Godalming swimmers was evidenced by a total of 12 personal bests and 27 1st places out of the 49 races swum.

15th May 2010 – Godalming won the Broadwater Trophy at the Godalming leisure centre. The young Godalming team were up against teams from Sutton Atlantis, Cranleigh, Henley and Tonbridge. Godalming finished 1st on 162 points, with Tonbridge 2nd on 125 and Henley taking 3rd with 100 points..

As you have heard the club are doing extremely well; have a growing membership and are managed and coached by a dedicated group of volunteers. 
Paul Nash, team manager, Dale Garrod boys captain, Megan White girls captain and the Club president Bob Cox who has been involved with the club for the whole of the past 35 years.
    

Cycling Award - The Byron Grainger Cup

Mark Burgin and the cycling team with David Anderson

Paul Molyneux (48)- Dan Broom (32)- Karl Chandler (39)- Adam Denton (46) and not to go unrecognised…. their team manager Mark Burgin, age unknown, competed in the 46RAAM 2010. This is a non stop cycle race across America. It happens every year and is regarded as the world's toughest bicycle race; they raced in the four man team category in which there were 11 other teams. They raced as Sharp 4 Prostate team to promote their sponsors and the chosen charity they were raising money for. The team race is a relay; with two people on shift and two people resting; the two people on shift rotate every 45 minutes for about 5 hours and then switch over to resting, and the rested team of 2 do their 5 hour stint; they kept up this routine for 6 days 15hrs and 7min to complete the 3000km race. The race started on the west coast of America and finished on the east coast of America. Not only did the team have to get themselves fit enough for this adventure over 9 month period; they had to raise funds to compete; put together a support crew of 9; and also raised over £70,000 for charity.

The Mayor’s Trophy for Sport Development

St Catherine's girls with Carole Cockburn

Awarded to St Catherine’s School for outstanding, national achievements in Lacrosse that recognises two applications submitted in the sports team category. 

The lacrosse season ended with the U19B Lacrosse team as winners at the National Schools tournament and the U18A came 2nd, narrowly losing in the final to Godolphin 3-4.  The U15B came in the top 6 and U15A were positioned in the top 8. In the county rounds, the U18A and U12 team came 1st, the U18B, U15, U14 were runners up and U13 came 3rd. The U18’s also won the Indoor County tournament.

Chris and Jenny Slyfield Trophy

Winner:  Malcolm Richardson

Malcolm Richardson with Chris Slyfield

Malcolm Richardson is Secretary of Godalming Angling Society, a large and successful club, with some 1600 members from all over the country, and includes 150 juniors and about 100 disabled anglers.  The Club has 7 lakes and 10 miles of the River Wey, and is active in organising fishing for the disabled, youngsters and ladies, with qualified coaching for all. Malcolm has been involved in Fishery Management work since 1955 (55 years), a committee member from 1960 to 1970, Assistant Secretary from 1970 - 1975, and Secretary from 1975 to 2010.  He has also run the trout fishing section at Winkworth from 1985 - 2010.

Malcolm was the mainstay of the development of the Marsh Farm, Milford fishery from 1998 - 2010: 3 lakes, new pavilion club house and conversion of the barns.  Malcolm has been a trustee of the club for at least 3 decades.

Up until his retirement in 2000, virtually all his spare time was devoted to the club.  Since then, I get the impression that all his waking time is devoted to the club’s administration responsibilities, together with his considerable work carried out in the conversion of Marsh Farm buildings, and the day to day maintenance of the Society’s property.  He is also much involved in the coaching scheme and the “Open Fishing Days” at Marsh Farm.

Malcolm is also secretary of Sport Godalming and is on the Wey Consultative Group committee. Malcolm is a tireless worker for, and the backbone of Godalming Angling Society, and has contributed hugely to the success of the club, which is widely regarded as one of the best in the country.

Downs Award

Winner: Chris Jagger

Chris Jagger's representative Katherine Jonkergouw
with Paul Marsh

Dr Chris Jagger, who is known to many of you, is this year’s recipient of the Downs Award for enhancing and promoting sport in the local community. The reason Chris has been chosen for this award is because of his vision and tireless efforts in taking the virtually unusable tennis offer at Holloway Hill and turning it into a facility that the whole community is proud of. He was also the leading light in forming the Busbridge Tennis Association or BTA in short form.

Chris was a GP at the Binscombe Medical Practise for 34 years, (1973-2007). Now retired, he is still using his medical skills as a part-time specialist practitioner for the Accident and Emergency department at The Royal Surrey County Hospital.

Additionally, he is currently the chair of local charities: the Warehouse Christian Trust which includes the Cellar café in Godalming - open to everyone, providing a friendly meeting place where people with problems can meet and discuss them amongst themselves and with the staff and volunteer helpers; and also the fantastic Skillway project which aims to raise the self-esteem and motivation of teenagers through apprentice-style teaching of manual skills in Skillway’s own workshops by skilled craftsmen.

He is Chairman of Salvadorian Children’s Earthquake Trust (SALCET). He and the SALCET team have travelled out to El Salvador annually for the last 10 years providing 2 weeks of invaluable medical care to suffering children and supporting companion children’s charity clinics in El Salvador.

He is also Chair of the local Thomas Trust and is on the committee for Loseley Cancer Support Group who meet fortnightly at Loseley.
In any spare time, apart from tennis, he also participates in other sports, including windsurfing, mountain biking, waterskiing, and running. – most recently completing the Great South Run for the SALCET charity. So an extremely active man!