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Page published 15 June 2013

Midland Junior Results

 

EPSCA 2013 County Finals
Rank Under-11 Girls' under-11 Under-9
1 Sussex Wey Valley Wey Valley
2 Barnet Nottingham Kent
3 Wey Valley Sussex Barnet
4 Nottingham Barnet Nottingham =
5 Kent Oxon Essex =
6 Berkshire Essex Richmond
7 Manchester Richmond Sussex
8 Cheshire and N Wales Kent Berkshire
9 Richmond Berkshire Herts.
10 Herts. Herts. Cambridge
11 Essex Manchester Lancs.
12 Yorkshire Wilts. Manchester
13 Staffs Birmingham Yorkshire
14 Northants   Oxon
15 Oxon   Cheshire
16 Lancs.   Wiltshire
17 Hampshire   Wirral
18 Oldham   Bucks.

 

Coach's Pupils' Results at EPSCA 2013 County Finals
Coach Rating Pupils' scores Prize
David Levens 169 18.5 1 (Haolin Xhao)
GM Glen Flear 229 18.5  
IM Lawrence Cooper 213 17  
IM Andrew Martin 212 17  
IM Tom Rendle 226 17  
IM Jonathan Hawkins 249 16  
Tony Nicolli UG 16  
Sainbayar Tserendorg UG 15  
GM Neil McDonald 224 14  
Angela Eyton UG 14  
WFM Meri Grigoryan 174 13.5  
Rob Willmoth 194 12.5  

 

  2008   2009   2010   2011   2012  
1 Kent 43 Nottingham 47.5 Nottingham 45.5 Kent 51.5 Barnet 49.5
2 Wey Valley 39.5 Kent 39.5 Kent 45 Wey Valley 49 Wey Valley 44
3 Nottingham 39.5 Barnet 39.5 Wey Valley 41 Sussex 45.5 Sussex 41.5
4 Richmond 36.5 Sussex 36.5 Sussex 36 Barnet 44.5 Notts 37
5 Sussex 36 Herts  36 Berks 31 Notts 36.5 Kent 37
6 Yorks 35.5 Oxford 35.5 Barnet 28.5 Berks 36.5 C and NW 32.5
7 Barnet 35 Yorks  30.5 Manchester 28 Herts 34.5 Herts 32.5
8 Berks 30.5 Berks 30 Yorks 25 Richmond 33.5 Oxford 30.5
9 Essex 29 Manchester 30 Oldham  24.5 Essex  30 Essex 28
10 Lancs 26.5 Wey Valley 29.5 Essex 22 B’ham 29 Berks 26.5
11 Oxford  24.5 Devon 27.5 Chesh. and NW 20 C and NW 23.5 Yorks 22
12 Oldham 24 Oldham 26.5 Lancs 13.5 Northants 23 Manchester 19
13 Manchester 20 Bucks 26     Yorks 22.5 Lancs  15
14 Somerset 15.5 Richmond 24     Oldham 20 Wilts 17.5
15 Liverpool 15 Essex 17.5     Lancs 18 Oldham 17.5
16     Lancs 16.5     Manchester 17    
17             Lincs 14    
18             Staffs 11.5    

 

It is significant that Kent, Nottingham and Sussex appear in the top six counties EVERY year.  Wey Valley and Barnet have appeared 4 times in the top 6; Berkshire twice; Cheshire/NW and Yorkshire once each.  In the same period Kent have won the title twice, Nottingham twice and Barnet once.

If we award 6 points for every first place; 5 for every second etc we arrive at the following scores: Kent 24, Nottingham 22, Wey Valley 19, Barnet 18, Sussex 16, Berks 4, Richmond 3, Yorks, Cheshire and NW and Oxford all 1 point each.  NB: Wherever there has been a tie on points I’ve awarded the higher place score.

It seems clear to me that consistently good coaching is being done in all the top five scoring counties and I propose that, subject to receiving some further information, all the head coaches in these 5 counties should be awarded the Class 1 coach title.  The further information I would like to see is some of the coaches playing history and their previous coaching achievements (I’ve attached my own to give some idea of what we need to be looking for).  After that I believe that all the other coaches who can show a history of good coaching within their county and any individual achievement should be awarded at least the Basic Coach level.

The other counties that appear in the lists regularly I would suggest that we ask for further information as to their coaching history and award titles accordingly.

This will give us a starting point and then we can start on a proper test procedure for future coaches.