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Sports Zone
Sports Zone is a disability sports and physical activity club aiming to encourage the fun aspect of sport and physical activity.
From 5th April 2008 the club will run on a weekly basis at the Bunyan Centre, Mile Road in Bedford, 10am - 12noon.
Sessions will run for 8 - 18year olds, with moderate learning difficulties and/or slight physical disabiities.
Although we can not cater for for one to one care we do work on a reduced ratio for the sessions. If you would like any more information please contact Helen Buckley on 01234 227411
Eastern Region Disability Athletics in Ipswich.
A talented team of 6 represented The Grange Special School at the Eastern Region Disability Athletics meet at Ipswich.
This was the first time each memeber of the team had competed at a competition of this standard and all preformed beyond any expectations.
Leon came 1st in the Ball Throw, 3rd in the 100m and 4th in the Long Jump.
Ashley came 1st in the Long Jump, 4th in the 100m and 1st in the 400m.
Joshua came 2nd in the Ball Throw, 2nd in the 200m and 1st in the 60m sprint.
Avneesha came 1st in the Long Jump, 1st in the 1500m and 1st in the 800m.
Rebecca came 4th in Long Jump, 1st in the Ball throw and 1st 100m.
Surpriya came 1st in the 400m, 2nd in the Ball throw and 2nd in the 100m.
In total the team came away with 10 gold medals, 4 silver medals 1 bronze medal and 3 4th place certificates.
Team mnager Dave Lawson said "We are very proud of our team. Each memeber has worked really hard and now are feeling the benefits. They have all been amazing today and we couldn't ask any more of them"
If you are interested in Athletics for additional needs or disabilities please contact Helen Buckley on 01234 227411.
Marlins Special Needs Water Activities Club
OUTSTANDING RESULTS FOR MARLINS AT SPECIAL OLYMPICS
Special Olympics National Games medallists Chris Howe, Adam Kelly, Jason McKenna and Roberto Russo once again excelled in the pool. This time they were part of a team representing Marlins Special Needs Water Activities Club at the Eastern Region Games at St Albans on Saturday 6th May. Adam won gold medals on all his events and achieved a personal best of 14:16 in the 25m freestyle. Chris took bronze in the 25m freestyle and helped the men's relay team achieve gold in the 4 x 25m event. Roberto went home with a gold medal for his 50m freestyle race and for the 4 x 25m relay. Jason swam an excellent 25m backstroke to win the broze medal.
Regular Specail Olympic swimmers Anthony Mclennan, Rebecca Lumbers, Luke Middleditch and Steven Bolger all made such an effort on the day that they were disqualified for going too fast in some of their time-banded races. Despite this Anthony, Rebecca and Steven went on the achieve medals for their other individual events and Luke went home proud of his 'speeding ticket' certificate!
Newcomers to the Special Olympics Jeff Jones, Chris Scott and Jamie Young all preformed extremely well, despite some understandable nerves, and all went home with medals. Jeff took silver in the 25m freestyle, Chris won gold and silver in the 50m and 25m freestyle events respectively and Jamie achieved bronze for the 25m freestyle and gold for 25m breaststroke.
The woman's relay team swam well in the 4 x 25m relay event to achieve broze medals for its memebers Sharon Houchen, Rosaleen Murphy, Rebecca Cowley and Rebecca Lumbers. Emily Entwistle stood in for missing memeber of the St Albans realy team and helps to beat her own team into third place by taking htesilver.
Other experienced Special Olympic swimmers Richard Crabbe, Edward Crabbe, Johnathon Mclennan and Graham Langridge also swam well in their both individual and realy event and helped Marlins take home a total of 14 gold, 7 silver and 9 bronze medals.
Beryl Mclennan, Team Manager, said "Once again our swimmers have done us proud. They all behaved professionally on the night and it was obvious that they all put the utmost effort into swimming their best. There were some performances to be proud of but next time we'll make sure Emily is swimming for our side!"
For more information on Marlins Special Needs Water Activities Club please contact Beryl Mclennan, Chairperson on 01234 351988 or email marlins.swimclub@ntlworld.com
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