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British internationals
will join forces to represent their areas at the National Teams
Championships on Saturday 9 July at the English Institute of Sport
in Sheffield.
The highly-charged one-day
event is one of the most popular in Britain as friendships are
put on hold, rivalries are renewed and judoka battle for bragging
rights along with the all-important National Team Championship
title.
As the action-packed event
unfolds fiercely-contested bouts will take place amid a fantastic
atmosphere that could rival any national sporting occasion as
fans, teams and club members spur on their judoka and converge
along the edges of the mats.
The senior men’s category
will feature 11 teams and include last year’s winners, the North
West, while the senior women’s category sees seven teams compete
with reigning champions Scotland again expected to be one of the
teams to beat.
2010 National Team Championships
© Mike Varey
2011 European Championship
bronze medallist Colin Oates will coach the senior men’s and women’s
Eastern teams.
The junior boy’s category
will feature nine teams including last year’s winners the Midlands
while six junior girls’ teams will be in action as reigning titleholders
London look to triumph in Sheffield.
Judoka who are expected
to be in action includes James Millar, Patrick Dawson, Iain Feenan,
Matthew Purssey and Matthew Pryce for Scotland while Sam Dunkley,
Lee Shinkin, Jerome-Robinson Reid, Tom Davis and Theo Spalding-McIntosh
are tipped to represent London.
Lewis Keeble and Chris
Sherrington are likely to line-up for the Combined Services team
while Tom Reed could represent the West and three-time Junior
European Cup gold medallist Max Stewart could fight for the junior
and senior Midlands teams.
Scotland’s senior women’s
team, who dominated the category last year, could call on Louise
Renicks, Connie Ramsey, Jodie Mullen, Sally Conway and Sarah Adlington.
A youthful-looking senior
women’s Midlands team currently comprises of Chloe Jones, Nicola
Haywood, Kate Marris, Sarah Biles and Melissa Duffield.
2011 IBSA World Games silver
medallist Lesley Reid is expected to compete for the Eastern team.
A host of 2011 European
Cadets Championship participants could be set to compete as Dominic
Naylor and Reece Sandy are likely to be in action for the Northern
Home Counties while Aiden Moffat and Conal McGregor could represent
Scotland.
European Cadet Championship
silver medallist Jodie Myers is expected to battle for the North
West while bronze medallist Hayley Willis may take to the mat
for London along with Prisca Awiti-Alcaraz who also competed in
Malta’s European showpiece.
Tickets are FREE
so come along and support your team as they battle for honours
at the 2011 National Team Championships at EIS, Sheffield with
the competition due to start at 10am.
EIS Sheffield is located
at Coleridge Road, Sheffield, S9 5DA.
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