More good news from Bishopthorpe Youth Club!
Helen Jarvis runs the club, and over Easter has been organising, supporting, cheering and willing the two youth clubs teams to success in a city wide football tournament.
Helen's report is below. Maybe we can make this a Youth Club feature and get contributions from Helen on a regular basis - watch this space...
"My name is Helen Jarvis and I run the Bishopthorpe youth club from the village hall on a Wednesday night. I found myself wanting to share our good news with the good people of Bishopthorpe!
On Friday at 11:30am two teams from Bishopthorpe youth club, teenagers from your own village, met at Roko gym (playfootball) to take part in the young people's service football tournament.
This is held twice a year to encourage young people from all over York to play a sport they love and meet new people from across the city. In October 2009 the Bishopthorpe under 15's came a close second in the finals, and this time came back fighting stronger. Also we had an new over 16's team who wanted a chance to join in the fun. Throughout the day the young people on both these teams gave 110%, battling off around ten other teams in their age groups until it came down to both teams taking part in their finals.
Now here comes the good news; first of all the under 15's after all their hard work were the victors, winning the tournament and bagging themselves 10 free tickets for a paintballing activity. We then all went to watch the over 16's and give our support. After the longest ten minutes in history (trust me i have no nails left to prove the fact!) our over 16's also finished the game victorious!!!!!!!
I would like to take this opportunity to thank both teams for their hard work and dedication, and also all the other teams that took part and look forward to the next competition with anticipation.
Thank you once again Bishopthorpe for giving me the chance to work with these fantastic young people."
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