Sunday, May 28, 2006

Welwyn pair selected for England performance camp

Two Welwyn girls are among the best 30 U17s in the county - and that's official.

Michelle Brophy (centre, 17) and Megan Williams (fly half, and still - amazingly - only 14) have been selected to attend the RFUW's U17 performance camp at Loughborough. The Performance Camp is the next step up the national ladder above the Performance Development Academies (PDAs) (featured in the latest Newsletter which was issued today).

Unfortunately details of the selections have only just been issued and so the news does not appears in the Newsletter, for which the editor apologises - but it only goes to show the advantage of a rolling electronic news service over a printed publication!

Anyway - good luck to Michelle and Megan, and we look forward to hearing how they get on. They are - I think - the first non-Fullers Hertfordshire girls to get to Loughborough?

Their selection shows the depth of talent at Welwyn, who have also had three other girls selected for the PDAs in Guildford (Frances Dawson and Hannah Gallagher at U14, and Emma Cramphorn at U17).

Only four other girls from Herts clubs will be at the PDAs - Claire Shutler (Saracens, U14), Sarah McKenna (Fullerians, U17), and Sasha Acheson and Hayley Guilder (both Letchworth, U17).

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