Events and competitions

Devon Youth Games

The 2008 Devon Youth Games will be held in Plymouth on Saturday 28 June, with sports taking place at the Brickfields sports centre and recreation ground, The Devonshire Health and Racquet Club and Marjon sports centre.

2008 Plymouth trials are as follow:

• Aquathlon, school years 5 and 6, 7 and 8, 9 and 10 - to be confirmed
• Badminton, school years 8 and 9 - Friday 2 May, 4.30pm at the Mayflower Leisure Centre
• Girls Cricket, school years 8 and below - Thursday 1 May,6pm at Coombe Dean School
• Futsal, school years 8 and 9 - Wednesday 30 April, 3.30pm at Mayflower Leisure Centre
• Gymnastics, school years 3 and 4 - Tuesday 29 April, 4pm at Sir John Hunt Community College
• Hockey, school years 7 and 8 - Wednesdays at Marjon
• Netball, school years 7 and 8 - Wednesday 23 April, 4.30pm at Plymstock School
• Girls Tag Rugby, school years7, 8 and 9 - Monday 12 May, 4pm at Coombe Dean School
• Table-tennis, school years 8, 9 and 10 - Wednesday 30 April, 3.30pm at Eggbuckland Community College
• Tennis, school years 7 and 8 - Monday 28 April, 4pm at the Devonshire Health and Racquet Centre
• Volleyball, school years 7 and 8 - Tuesday 22 April, 4pm at Eggbuckland Community College

2007 DML Devon Youth Games

Plymouth athletes returned to the city with a clutch of medals - two gold, two silver and four bronze, to finish as overall winners.

At the popular sporting event, held in Okehampton, more than 1,200 talented youngsters aged between 9 and 15 years old represented Devon's eight local authorities.

The Olympic-style event featured eleven separate sports - aquathlon, athletics, badminton, girls cricket, gymnastics, hockey, netball, street sports, tag rugby, tennis and volleyball.

Plymouth City Council's Sports Development Unit took 15 teams to the tournament, which was opened by Mark Tyler from Westcountry TV and concluded with Brooke Gradden, Commonwealth diver at the closing ceremony.

The games aim to:

• celebrate youth sport
• provide meaningful activities for young people
• provide a focus and tangible outcome for sports development work
• create a spirit of friendly co-operation between authorities
• demonstrate and promote the value of sports development
• provide a new level of competition for young people with sporting potential, under county level
• encourage the development of links between schools, clubs, governing bodies of sport, leisure departments and the voluntary sports clubs to obtain maximum opportunity for the development of sport for young people

2007 Devon Youth Games held in Okehampton

• Overall Winners - Plymouth
• Fair Play Winners - West Devon

Devon Youth Ability Games

Plymouth hosted the inaugural County Games in 2003, following a successful Special Schools Football Festival the year before. On the day 16 school teams from across Devon took part in Football and Boccia. Prior to this event all participating schools received coaching sessions from Plymouth Argyle Football Club, Exeter City Football Club or Torquay United Football Club.

The 2007 winners

Primary schools football and netball festival

This well established event was originally set up by Devon and Cornwall Police in 1992 and has been run by the Sport Development Unit since 1998.

The event is very popular with 60 football teams and 60 netball teams entered in the 2007 event. The five-day event takes place at the Mayflower Centre from 8 January to 12 January and includes a mixed Year 6 Football 5 a-side competition and a mixed Year 6 High 5s Netball competition.

The winning football team receives free sports equipment and coaching sessions from Plymouth Argyle Football Club and are given the opportunity to represent Plymouth at the Regional U11s six a-side schools competition sponsored by BT. The winning netball team receives free sports equipment and coaching sessions from the Active Devon Sports Partnership.

2008 results

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