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The Mole Valley team, which consisted of over 200 youth people aged 7 – 15 years, beat off competition from the ten competing Surrey districts and boroughs to become overall winners of the 2010 P&G Surrey Youth Games (SYG) competition for the first time in the games’ fourteen year history.

This outstanding achievement took place at the Surrey Sports Park over the weekend of 19th/20th June 2010, where 2000 young competitors from across Surrey took part in the County’s largest youth sporting festival, the 2010 P&G Surrey Youth Games.

The Mole Valley team had previously taken part in training sessions covering thirteen sports at the games, in a bid to represent their district.  The youth games provided non-county standard athletes the opportunity to compete for the first time and can lead to many of them taking up a new sport and further developing these new skills.

Following a very tough two-day competition and some fantastic performances, Mole Valley were crowned the best team of young athletes in the County; a tremendous achievement. Of the 24 teams that were entered to make up the Mole Valley team an incredible thirteen achieved a top three finish, including the following successes:

GOLD MEDALS:
• Senior Girls Netball (School years 9 and 10)
• Tennis (School year 3)

SILVER MEDALS :
• Junior Squash mixed (School years 3 – 6)
• Senior Badminton mixed (School years 7, 8 and 9)
• Girls Basketball (School years 7, 8 and 9)
• Junior Girls Football (School years 3 and 4)
• High 5 Netball mixed (School years 5 and 6)
• Golf (School years 7, 8 and 9)
• MLD Boys Football (School years 9 and 10)

BRONZE MEDALS:
• Junior Netball mixed (School years 7 and 8)
• Boys Basketball (School years 7, 8 and 9)
• Senior Squash mixed (School years 5 – 7)
• Judo Senior Girls (School year 6 – 11)

Councillor Kathryn Westwood, Member of the Executive, said “This is a wonderful achievement by Mole Valley’s young sports stars, who have all displayed a tremendous level of dedication and hard work and fully deserve all that they achieved over the weekend. I am confident that this, our first success in the Surrey Youth Games competition, will mark the beginning of many more to come in the future. I would also like to take the opportunity to thank Leatherhead Leisure Centre and Fusion Lifestyle for sponsoring the Mole Valley team this year”.

For information on the Mole Valley entry or to register your interest for next year, please contact the Sports Development Officer Richard Arlett on 01306 879194 or email: sport@molevalley.gov.uk.

Full results of the 2010 P & G Surrey Youth Games can be found on the Active Surrey website at www.activesurrey.com.