DYKE HOUSE SPORTS & TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE’S
ELITE DEVELOPMENT SQUAD
NEWSLETTER
February 2017
TERM’S TOP
TWEETS
Olympian wants to help
swimmers aim higher
DECEMBER 2016
The Year 7 girls won the
Hartlepool Schools’ five-asides, with Charlotte Scott top
scoring with eight goals
Coban Ferguson, Katie Fay,
Emily Swales, Megan Costello,
Poppy Forster, Corey Crannage, Thomas Lea, Alex Lamb
and Will Skipp all qualified
for the County Cross Country
finals from the town-wide
competiion
The Year 8 footballers defeatred St Aidan’s in the Durham
SFA TUC Cup, with Ethan
Wilson scoring a hat-trick
Dyke House’s Year 10 boys
finished top of the six-a-side
league and appeared in the
Hartlepool Mail days later
Cole Baldam qualified for the
GB Championships at Crystal
Palace with a fine display
against the UK’s established
Modern Biathletes
Charlotte Scott revealed how
David Beckham has provided
the inspiration for her progress on a football pitch
AN Olympic medalist has given
Dyke House College’s swimmers
some tips from the top.
Nick Gillingham won a silver
medal at the Seoul Games in
1988 and then bronze in Barcelona four years later. He also
boasts golds from World and
European Championships among
his extensive list of achievements.
Gillingham has been impressed
after working with 14 students
enrolled on the Elite Development
Squad programme at Dyke House
and the link will continue.
The 50-year-old said: “Talent is
an interesting word and one that
is so very subjective. I try to be
objective as well as subjective
as talent is also about passion,
desire, drive, hunger and determination where heart, mind and soul
have to come together.
“It’s simply not about who can
jump the highest or who can run
or swim the fastest. Indeed, talent
will only ever get you so far as it’s
about trainability. Do Dyke House
pupils have this quality? Yes.”
Dyke House’s Chris Mayes,
Callum Bomersbach, Reece Robinson and Cole Baldam qualified
EXPERT TUITION: Nick Gillingham with the Dyke House swimmers
for the English Schools’ Swimming Association Championships
at the end of last year. It is hoped
Gillingham’s advice can lead to
further success stories.
Gillingham said: “Initially I was
involved with the school through
the AQA Unlocking Potential Programme. I was really impressed
and it was really positive to keep
the link with the school going
forward due to the excellent Elite
programme opportunities.
“It’s my passion to pass on
knowledge. As a licensed educator, I am keen to develop sporting
potential along with the understanding that sport brings so
many life skills that will transcend
and support individuals across
decades to come whatever their
walk of life.”
Emily and Rebecca Swales
shone in the pool for AquaForce to record personal bests
A brilliant display from the
Year 7 girls at the County
five-a-side finals earned them
the title. Katie Wearmouth,
Megan Darby and Charlotte
Scott the scorers.
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TOP TIPS: Nick Gillingham chats with the swimmers
MEDALIST: Nick Gillingham won
silver and bronze at the Olympics
Top trips for scheme’s
Tier 3 Elite athletes
TERM’S TOP
TWEETS
DECEMBER 2016
Josh Bell’s LTA ranking went
up after impressive results in
the Sunderland Match Play
event
Brandon Sanderson received
his Miles for Men trophy for
winning the Under-16s race
last year
Tom Campbell captained the
Hartlepool Old Boys against
Durham City to a 45-20 win,
shining by example
JANUARY 2017
Dyke House golf consultant
won the South African Open
on the European Tour after
beating Rory McIlroy
The Year 8 boys won the Tees
Valley Indoor Athletics Finals
and the girls came a credible
sixth
Thomas Godber came second
in the Under-14s cyclocross in
Darlington
The Year 7 boys reached the
County Cup semi-final by
beating Whickham on penalties after a 5-5 thriller and the
Year 7 girls also progressed by
beating Northfield
Charlie Edwards took third
place in the National Championships with Tang Soo Do
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THERE was no ‘I’ in team when
two sets of Tier 3 athletes on
the Elite Development Squad
scholarship programme headed
on bonding trips before and after
Christmas.
Before the festivities the Year
8-11 students headed down to
Loughborough University and
the Sheffield Institute of Sport.
They also visited the Mount Cook
Adventure Centre.
It was one of the many trips the
scheme has provided for its scholars on a number of occasions
so far, to highlight the benefits of
having top facilities to work with
in both an academic and sporting
sense.
The director of the Elite Development Squad, Danny Evans, said:
“We combined the trip for aspirational aspects to the top sporting
university in the country.
“There was a team work day in
Derby, which was at the Mount
Cook Centre where they did some
orienteering, scrambling and team
work challenges.
“Those experiences will all help
them in sport, to work as part of a
team because they were all taken
out of the comfort zone.
“The other aspect of it was to
head to Sheffield where they all
got to experience what it was like
to be a boxer, basketball player
and table tennis player for Team
GB in fantastic surroundings;
athletics too.”
After Christmas the Year 7 students went on their own trip.
Rather than go to Loughborough, the athletes started out at
EDUCATIONAL: The older Tier 3 students on the scheme outside
Loughborough University
IN THE RING: The athletes at the
boxing gym in Sheffield
Middlesbrough’s Sports Village
before travelling down to Sheffield and then on to take part in
some abseiling and orienteering
themselves.
They spent some time on the
athletics track, while they also did
spinning, strength and conditioning, football and cycling on the
outdoor velodrome.
OUTDOORS: The Year 7 tier 3
athletes in the woods
Girl power clinches regional finals
AN eight-strong group of girls
reached the northern five-a-side
finals after shining in Dyke House
colours.
Nicole Smith, Lucy Tyers, Katie
Cooper, Katie Wearmouth, Tia
Queen, Charlotte Scott, Georgia
Breward and Megan Darby all
played their part to help the Year 7
girls to glory in the Hartlepool and
county finals.
There was heartbreak against the
best in the north at South Shields
though. Despite leading 3-0 in the
final game, they ended up losing
so missed out on a place in the
National Finals in Birmingham.
WINNERS: Nicole Smith, Lucy Tyers, Katie Cooper, Katie Wearmouth,
Tia Queen, Charlotte Scott, Georgia Breward and Megan Darby.