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Two students from Latimer school attended the official opening of Volleyball England’s National Volleyball training centre. This state of the art Olympic standard Volleyball centre is based at the Kettering Conference Centre. Supporter 2 Reporter (part of Radiowaves: www.radiowaves.co.uk) is a project where youngsters train to be sports reporters in preparation for the 2012 Olympics. There are various groups attached to Northants Study Centres, the Latimer girls attended their initial training at Diamonds Study centre at Easter.

After the official opening and speeches from Volleyball England staff, we watched the Junior National Teams (girls and boys) and GB men’s sitting team (future paraolympians) in training and the reporters interviewed some of their players and officials. They spoke with Maria Bertelli (GB Volleyball player, 65 caps), Dan Hunter (GB Volleyball player who had recently been promoted from youth to senior squad), Leo Trench (Talent spotter, Volleyball England), Robbie Barrett (sitting squad captain) and Rakesh Misuria. (sitting squad player) Matt Rogers, Sitting Volleyball development manager advised the reporters about their questions.

To see the reporter’s blogs, stories and edited interviews, visit: http://www.radiowaves.co.uk/s2rnorthampton

Press release:

The National Volleyball Centre (NVC) will provide top class sports facilities for International athletes and competitions in the lead up to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. East Midlands Development Agency, Kettering Borough Council and Northampton Enterprise Limited have also provided funding which has helped to create the centre into a top class venue by creating four volleyball courts, new seating areas and a social and educational area. The Kettering Conference Centre has an excellent combination of both conference and indoor sporting facilities with good wheelchair access.

Lisa Wainwright, CEO of Volleyball England expresses her delight on the centre: “We identified within our strategic plan 2009/13 our aspiration to establish a National Centre for training and competition to ensure we can provide top quality facilities and services to our talented athletes and all our educators within the sport.”

On Friday 24th July, Mark Foster opened Corby East Midlands International Swimming Pool. Anna attended the official opening at this magnificent new facility. The pool complex is amazing, with huge 50 Olympic sized pool, diving pool, fun pool with crazy slide, cafe, , gym and children’s pool.

Speeches came from Mayor of Corby Councillor Mary Butcher , Leader of Corby Borough Council Pat Fawcett, MP Phil Hope, MP Ben Bradshaw, Secretary of State for Culture and legendary Olympics swimmer Mark Foster. Understandably the people of Corby and Northamptonshire are very proud of this state of the art modern pool. In order to try and increase numbers of people swimming, all under 16s and over 60s have free entry, always! As the pool opened to the public in the afternoon, there were huge crowds of families waiting to give it a try.

Spectators in the gallery were treated to various swimming demonstrations and races including Synchronised swimming, diving, scuba diving and snorkeling, Corby swimming club races and an official timed 50 metres set by Mark. This was all very exciting and it was great to see local children taking part in sporting activities.

Supporter 2 Reporter students Josh and Nicola (Burton Latimer school) attended with Sara Cooke. These are trained reporters  who are part of the Diamonds Study Centre’s bank of reporters who will be invoved in 2012 events. Trained as part of national project Radiowaves, they attend various sporting events to practise their media skills. They were lucky enough to grab a few minutes with Mark and ask him some questions. They also roamed about taking voxpops from visitors. To see their finished blog and audio tracks, visit: http://www.radiowaves.co.u/r/hiphoppopotomus/blog

Photos of the students in action to follow soon….

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foster_(swimmer)

For more information on the pool: http://www.corby.gov.uk/LeisureAndCulture/SportsClubsAndCentres/Pages/CorbyEastMidlandsInternationalPool.aspx