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Subject: England trialists
With the 2008 County pool season becoming a
distant memory the realisation of individual acheivements becomes
apparent with the announcement of the EPA England Trials for 2009.
After a season of mixed fortunes in the Men's
squad Cambridge based Paul Stelmaszuk gains a place in the Men's trials
finishing a joint 7th in the regional Rankings.
In the Ladies section, having risen to the
challange on two fronts this year both in the Region Four Inter
Counties league, finishing second to Norfolk and the National Knockout
cup where they gained a semifinalists spot we can honour 5 of our ladies
who have been rewarded with trials
Peterborough cueist's Liz Disney and Becky
Watkins
Cambridge players Julie MacKintosh and Melissa
Cook
And St Neots Based Nikki Bayes.
For Liz its a third year in succession and
prevoius experience will count for a lot.
Becky, who at only 15, makes her 2nd trip to the
trials to re afirm the talent in our youth around the County
Nikki Bayes, a previous England Squad player,
gets a deserved opportunity to gain her place back.
Julie and Mel get there first opportunity to
fulfil a seasons work and all Five could well Join their Captain and ever
present England Player Carly Smith in the colours of the national team.
Our ever improving Youth squad also do not go
unnoticed with no fewer than 6 players gaining trials at either youth
level or under 21's.
Jamie Stokes having impressingly won the regions
Rankings with 80% of frames won has gained an under 21 trial and although
he has trialled at youth level in previous years this step up could be
just the tonic for him.
Other successful youth trialists are
Glen Hannibal from St Neots
John Chapman from Cambridge
Scott Anderson, Andrew Cook and Shane Knappert
all from Peterborough.
John and Andrew also join Jamie in the under 21
trials.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Pool Associations
would like to congratulate all these players for outstanding
acheivement's and wish them all success at their respective trials.
For Cambridgeshire to be sending 12 players to
the trials shows we are moving in the right direction.
2009 gets under way in earnest on January 11th
with the mens trials for the Cambridgeshire Squad followed by The Ladies
and Youth on the 18th. both being held at Cambridge Snooker Centre (see
attached poster for details)
Andy Mear
County Team Manager
Mob: 07921 570376