Wamdsad
24th Annual Games
The 24th Annual Games sponsored by Michael
Shanly were held at the clubhouse on Braywick Sports Ground
on Saturday 2 June.
On a gloriously sunny day, over 100 competitors
from 8 clubs turned up to compete in a variety of sports
and games ranging from highly disciplined events such as
archery and air weapons, track and field events such as
shot, javelin and discus, which challenged each competitor
to aim for a personal best and the ever popular events including
Draughts and Shove Ha’penny.
This year, with the extension to the 
clubhouse
complete, Table Tennis was added to the games on offer and
other events such as Skittles, Target Basketball, Target
New Age Kurling and Petanque ensured that none of the competitors
had time to be bored! The clubs who attended were Gosport,
Southend, Rushmoor Mallards from Farnborough, MSE Phoenix
from Chalfont, WADSAD from Wycombe, a new team comprising
mainly junior competitors – Team Colours UK and of
course WAMDSAD.
With the support of a wonderful team of volunteers, who
started setting up the venue at 8am everything was in place
for when the clubs started to arrive and indeed some of
the events were underway before our official start time
of 10am. The highest number of entries was 88 in the Skittles.
However, 80 competitors in Target Basketball, Pentanque
and Targte New Age Kurling as well as 70 competitors in
the main field events kept the helpers very busy.
The girls from Newlands Girls School, under
the guidance of Mrs E MacBean, come every year to help out
by running all the track and field events, plus other events
when needed and their enthusiasm and encouragement contributed
greatly to the enjoyment of all those competing.
At the end of the day, after collating all the results,
we awarded almost 200 medals and 2 trophies. The first of
the trophies went to the club who scored most points in
all track and field events. This was a closely fought battle
with last years runners up with Rushmoor Mallards coming
out on top, closely followed by WAMDSAD and Team Colours
UK.
The second trophy was awarded to the club
with the highest number of points overall and once again,
for the 9th consecutive year, WAMDSAD were victorious with
a magnificent 63 points. Rushmoor Mallards finished second
with 61 points and third place went to Team Colours UK with
48 points. WAMDSAD’s victory was ensured by the 23
competitors, who between them collected 49 medals. In the
junior section Lucie Bouron won a magnificent 9 medals (2
gold, 7 silver), closely followed by Anthony Hornby who
repeated his achievement of last year by winning 6 medals
(1 gold, 5 silver) and Georgina Callingham who won 4 medals
(2 gold, 2 silver). In the senior section, top spot for
medals won was a tie between Richard Barton who achieved
6 medals (2 gold, 4 silver) and Cheryl Kelley (3 gold, 3
silver).
So, after another successful day for everyone
who took part, the organizing committee are already planning
next year’s event, which will see the 25th celebration
of WAMDSAD Games.
