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   32    The Link Maaazine • Ma  2001                                                                    www.swind
      Shaw Ridge girls want to look smart to win games                                    Shoot the hoop
   Its hard to catch a netball when your skirt is flapping around your knees, or a zip suddenly gives way.  - teams wanted
   But its a problem the girls in the Shaw Ridge netball team have to put up with when trying to win games  Swindon Council is looking for
   in the West Swindon primary schools league.                                       teams of girls and boys aged from
     Team coach Jill Edwards said            —'-                                 =!!  11 to 18 to take part in a 3 v 3
   the girls are still wearing the origi-                                            county wide basketball tourna-
   nal kit, purchased when the school                                       -        ment at the Dorcan recreation
   opened over fifteen years ago. "Its                                —=             complex on 24 June.
   the first and only kit they've ever  }                       f .air                 The cost per team is £5 and there
   had and it's falling apart. The boys         _    f                               is also a wheelchair section for
   have had at least two football strips  , ,                   -             F^     under 14s. For details, call Gladys
   in the same time.                   r      _                                      Barr on 512828.
     "The girls are always very en-                   -   .                             Ball club relaunched
   thusiastic, but it's very difficult to        4                                   Swindon's wheelchair basketball
   play to your best if you're in rags."                                             club has restarted on Saturdays,
     Katie Pitts-Drake, 9, agreed. "The                      tr -             p      11.30am to 12.30pm, at the Haydon
   shirts are either too big or too small                                            Centre, Thames Avenue. The cost
   and the zips on the skirts are all                                                is £1 per session. For details, call
   broken. We could win more games                                                   Gladys Barr on 512828.
   if we looked smarter."                                                              She is also keen to meet any-
     The netball team needs £400 to                                                  body who can help run the club.
   purchase skirts, bibs and shirts
   with the sponsors name on them.                                                         Saturday sport
   If your company could help, call                                                  Youngsters with disabilities get
   Jill Edwards at Shaw Ridge on                                                     together at the Link Centre for
                                                        -^
   871601.	?                                                                         Sport on Saturday (S.O.S.).
                                                                                       For details, call Fran Pound or
   Unhappy models on the netball court, front from left, Mia Harrison, Lisa Rutter, Katie Pitts-Drake, Samantha Bedry,
   Katie Tee, Georgia Turner, Roya Shahrokum. Back, Laura Whittaker, Megan Gibson, Lauren Chivers, Rhiannon  Steve Connolly at the Lifestyle De-
   Moore, Hailey Chivers, Catherine Forty, Back, Cloe Richardson-Leslie              velopment Team on 511033.


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