BEV Announces Team GBR Vaulters for European Championships
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
British Equestrian Vaulting (BEV) has today selected the teams and individual vaulters for the European Vaulting Championships.
Twenty-one vaulters – seven senior team members, eight junior team members three senior individual female and three junior individual females – will attend the championships, which will be hosted by Malmö Ridklubb and will be held at Flyinge Kungsgård in Sweden between July 29 and August 2.
The teams were named as:
Senior vaulting team (Julie Newell - lunger/coach)
Horse - Go for Gold
- Sarah Reid (19) Worcestershire
- Emma Runge (22) Buckinghamshire
- Megan Bignell (10) Warwickshire
- Steph Hunter (15) Lincolnshire
- Paige Brown (12) Hampshire
- Sara Shortland (15) Derbyshire
- Lydia Barham (14) Northamptonshire
Junior vaulting team (John Eccles – Lunger/coach)
Horse – WH Bentley
- Rebecca Norval (12) Alloa
- Helen Anderson (15) Houston
- Yasmin Williamson (14) Rosyth
- Brogan Moffat (15) Bonnybridge
- Cassandra Mailwraith (14) Stirling
- Andrew Mclachlan (14) Tillicoultry
- Hannah Young (12) Cumbernauld
- Amy Gullen (10) Muckhart
Individual competitors - SENIOR FEMALE
- Joanna Eccles (20) Tillicoultry
- Lucy Philips (18) Solihull
- Harriet Nicol (22) Fife
Individual competitors - JUNIOR FEMALE
- Hannah Eccles (17) Tillicoultry
- Louise Sinclair (15) Fife
- Stephanie Hunter (15) Cumbernauld
“I am delighted to welcome these vaulters to the British Vaulting Team,” said Lucy Bell, Chef d’equipe BEV. “The squad this year is very strong competitively, following multiple international podium finishes this year.
“It is a very exciting time in British Vaulting with high level seasoned contenders looking for top placings, along with up and coming new talent being selected.
“I have every confidence that the vaulters, lungers and their horses will produceexcellent results for Team GBR.”
It is customary in vaulting for the junior and senior Great British representative squads to be selected from home Country teams and for the first time since 1996, the senior Great Britain team will be made up of an all English Vaulting team following three rounds of selection.
The team will be vaulting on Go for Gold, a mare owned by team coach Julie Newell. Go for Gold represented GBR at the World Equestrian Games in 2006 and World Championships in 2008 (with individual competitors). She also won Best team horse at the British Championships in 2008.
Senior coach and lunger, Julie Newell added: “I am delighted for the girls; they have all been working very hard for the past two years to be selected as Team GBR. I am extremely proud of them and really excited about the challenge ahead of us.
“We are looking forward to the championships in Sweden and I am sure all of us will be working as hard as possible to achieve the best results.”
John Eccles, coach and Father to Joanna and Hannah Eccles, as well as the Junior team said, “After many great results at competitions both here and abroad in the recent months, we are aiming for one, if not more, podium places at this major championships.”
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