As you may or not be aware Neil with the assistance of some of our other coaches has been running after school softball clubs at Dr Challoners in Amersham and Challoners High in Little Chalfont. The students are aged around 14, and the clubs have been very successful averaging in total across the two groups around 35 attendees every week. Last week they competed in a local School Games tournament against five other schools in our local area and successfully qualified to play in the County Sports Games softball tournament taking place next week in Stoke Mandeville.
The students are very enthusiastic and are showing great potential to become good players. Response has been good and many have already been asking how they continue to play once the after school sessons finish in the next couple of weeks.
With that in mind and to keep interest up, we are going to run 6 Friday night junior softball sessions through July and into August. The sessions will take place on the Challoners High school fields between 6.30pm and 8.00pm. The sessions will be aimed at the groups that we have been working with, along with students from some of the other schools that took part at School Games. The idea is to run the sessions for around 30 juniors this summer and then build on it next spring/summer. The ultimate aim of our junior softball programme will be to develop future members our our adult teams and hopefully produce a steady flow each year of new players in to the teams.
The sessions are likely to be half skills and drills and then half game. If you would like to help with the sessions then please let Neil know (development@chalfontsoftballclub.co.uk) - it would be great if you could just give up one early Friday evening and help out. The sessions will be planned and delivered by our qualified coaches but assisting volunteers/players would be much appreciated.
