SCHOOL ATHLETICS: A TEAM of 22 youngsters from Wiltshire travel to Nottingham today to represent their county at the two-day English Schools Athletics Association Championships.
Pupils from schools across Wiltshire were selected to compete at the prestigious event after the South West Championships in Bournemouth last weekend.
The regional championships saw Wiltshire line up against the likes of Dorset, Devon and Cornwall and the Wiltshire representatives had qualified to represent their county at a meeting in Salisbury on June 15.
Counties are split into three categories at the national games according to the population in each. Wiltshire have been entered in category C and were allowed to pick a maximum number of 25 representatives.
Each of the pupils were required to reach a qualifying standard for their particular event in order to travel to Nottingham, and those who impress at the games this weekend could be selected for an English schools team to face Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales in a home international meeting.
Margaret Hall, vice president of the Wiltshire Schools Athletics Association, believes the 22 county representatives have done well to reach the national finals.
She said: "They have got to get to a certain standard and it is a good achievement by all of them.
"It is a prestigious event and the sort of thing I wish I'd done when I was their age. There is a lot of competition in the county and it is quite an honour for those going to represent Wiltshire."
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