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Call up to England Netball for Lauren!
Lauren Potter England Netball
Lauren Potter from Millhouses has just been selected for the England U17 Netball team, the first youngster from South Yorkshire to achieve this for fifteen years!
The Year 10 pupil from Sheffield High School was selected to attend the National Screening which was held in Bath on Sunday 16 March as one of the 94 girls nominated for screening from all 9 regions across the country for selection to the U17 and U19 England squads for next season. It is an intense day of very competitive match-play under the watchful eyes of the national talent coaches. About a third were eliminated half way through the day but the remaining athletes were then left to watch the website for the final cut! The selected girls names were displayed on the England Netball website with 16 in the U17 squad and 16 in the U19 squad, and Lauren is only player from the Yorkshire region to be selected.
Lauren now joins the Talent 1 squad for a 4 day training camp in April and a 10 day camp in August, both in Bath, and after the summer camp there will be a final selection for the squads to train to compete in the European Champs in 2009.
This National Selection has come at the end of a very busy season for Lauren who was selected to play for Leeds Carnegie U19 in the inaugural season of the National Talent League and has even been invited to train with the Senior Superleague side. She has played in all of the Leeds U19 matches helping them to secure fourth place in the country with wins over Team Bath, Northern Thunder and Team Northumbria. At school Lauren has helped the Sheffield High School team to become Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Regional and National Trust Champs this season.
Lauren has come through the South Yorkshire Talent Development Programme and been guided through the Regional Talent Programme in her individual training. She is looking forward to helping her club Oldham to retain the National U16 clubs title for the fourth year running in the final play-offs next month. Not only has Lauren managed to do all the personal and team training but she has also had to fit in winter training with the Yorkshire regional high performance sprint squad ready for the upcoming athletics season!