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Sports Development Team

Angus Council Sports Development Team provide support and advice to individuals, clubs, sports associations or groups on a range of issues. They also establish and co-ordinate a number of opportunities linking local, regional and national programmes in a variety of sports.

The Sports Development Team endeavour to provide opportunities to further develop the sporting and physical activity levels of many different groups across the county.

Our focus areas include:

Sports Development in a range of sports and physical activities,
Club Development,
National Athlete Support,
Coach Support,
Football Development,
Disability Sport and
Rugby Development.

Working with a number of local, regional and national sports partners we organise and establish several initiatives designed to encourage and increase sports and physical activity levels and also provide an effective 'player pathway' for potential elite performers.

View the Angus Council Sports Development Team booklet (250 KB PDF).

SportTayside & Fife Giant Heptathlon Final

On Tuesday 3rd March the SportTayside & Fife Giant Heptathlon Final took place at Pitreavie Athletics Centre in Dunfermline. The event brought together the top two schools from each of the four local authority events which have taken place over the last few months with each school fielding a team of seven girls and seven boys from S1 & 2.

Angus Sports Awards 2008 Winners

The sporting stars of Angus were in the spotlight for the 13th annual Angus Sports Awards 2008 at the Reid Hall, Forfar and again highlighted the sporting talent and achievement that exists in Angus.

Angus Sports Council and Angus Council Sports Development Team again took the opportunity to honour the commitment, achievements and dedication of individuals and teams involved in sport across Angus. Angus Ahead, the area marketing campaign set up to fly the flag for the county at home and abroad, supported the Angus Sports Awards 2008 ceremony.

Angus Council - SFA Developmental 4's

As part of Angus Council's commitment to developing the potential of football in the Angus area, the Angus Developmental 4's aimed at boys and girls aged 5-8 year olds will soon be recommencing. This will run in line with the "Desire to Play" stage in the SFA Developing Talent Plan.

The Angus Developmental 4's start back again on Saturday 7th March 2009 and runs until Saturday 17th October 2009, with a three week break from 18th July starting back on 9th August 2009.

Basketball Fun Bounces Into Arbroath!

Primary school pupils enjoyed some slam dunking at a basketball festival this week.

Angus Sports Awards 2008 - Searching for Angus Sports Stars!!

Angus Sports Council are looking for the County's sporting stars to step into the spotlight at their annual sports awards ceremony taking place in March this year. Nomination forms are available now with athletes, players, coaches, friends and family encouraged to submit forms for consideration by the selection panel. WE NEED YOUR NOMINATIONS!!

Angus Inter-Club Competition

Angus Gymnastics Development Group held the annual Angus Inter-Club Gymnastics Competition on Sunday 7th December. The competition was held at Lochside Leisure Centre in Forfar. The event saw 65 gymnasts compete against the other clubs in the county.

Awards for Angus Football Clubs

The work of local football clubs supported by Angus Council sports development officers, has been recognised by the SFA.

Four Angus clubs were awarded the SFA Quality Mark at a ceremony in November.

The awards are the SFA club accreditation initiative designed to recognise safe and effective clubs.

Arbroath High School wins Giant Heptathlon

Angus Sports Development Team, in partnership with SportTayside & Fife, laid on a Giant Heptathlon for Angus secondary schools at Montrose Sports Centre on Monday 27 October 2008.

The day's events comprised coaching in the morning and competition in the afternoon. The pupils were coached through each event by coaches from Arbroath & District and Brechin High athletics clubs and sports development staff.

Also attending the event were Darren Ritchie and Piotr Haczek from Scottishathletics. They are the Scottish national event managers for jumps and combined events and sprints and hurdles respectively, and they attended the event for talent identification purposes.

View past items in the Sports Development News Archive.

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