If you fully understand that headline then well done!
For everyone else, last summer's summer training camps for elite players ("Performance Development Academies, or PDAs) will now be known as High Performance Academies (or "HPAs"). HPAs are being established for both senior and U17 levels, and regional coaching staff will shortly be nominating players for each programme.
Full details about what is planned can be found on the RFUW website, but in summary...
Seniors selected will attend a HPA on 14th/15th July (for our region at Heythrop Park, Oxon). The leading players from this weekend (and two others being held on the same dates elsewhere) will be invited back for a second HPA on 24th/25th August from which the Super 4 squads will be selected.
Regions will select 7-10 players each, who will be joined at the first HPA by player from the Super League teams, the England Elite squad, and England U19s.
At U17 level the format is a little different, being for most girls a two stage process.
First about 110 regional selections (7-10 from each region) will have to attend one of three one-day HPAs (for our region at Heythrop Park on 15th July). These selections will not include existing TDG girls.
From these three "camps" about twenty girls will be selected to go forward to two-day HPA at a "central venue" on 26th-27th July where they will be joined by members of this season's TDG. From this group of 50 a new TDG of 30 will e selected for 2007/8.
The first training camp for the new TDG will then take place on the weekend of 20/21 August.
There will be no U14 HPAs as the group selected last month will become part of the new "CB Schools of Rugby" for 2007/8.
Regions will be invited to make their selections over the next few weeks.
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