December

Derbyshire athlete Molly Slifkin won two bronze medals at the recent World Kickboxing and karate Association World Amateur Championships in Florida.

Tapton Park Golf Club has been nominated for the GolfMark - Club of the Year Award 2008.

Ashbourne’s Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School came out on top at the year seven Derbyshire Dales Sportshall Athletics Championships, held at Highfields School in Matlock.

Craig McCarthy has been awarded a Youth Award in this year's Royal Yachting Association Community Awards for his significant contribution to youth sailing activities at Burton Sailing Club.

Derbyshire’s David Brailsford has been named Coach of the Year at the 2008 BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards.

Women who would like to start the New Year with a new challenge or a return to sport are being invited to join Derby Ducks, an informal women’s hockey group.

The sporting successes of some of Derbyshire’s young people were among the achievements to be recognised at Derbyshire County Council’s Young Achiever Awards.

A funding officer has begun work at Derbyshire Sport.

A team from Sandiacre’s Friesland School has been crowned winners of Derbyshire’s first evercounty Futsal competition.

Active People 2 results released today indicate that 21.2 per cent of Derbyshire and Derby City residents are doing 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise at least three times per week. This is an increase on the 20.9 oer cent recorded when the survey reported the baseline data in 2006.

A group of pupils from Stubbin Wood School swapped sporting skills with their counterparts in China, during an eight-day trip to the Olympic host country.

Derbyshire families are being invited to hit the ground running in 2009, by taking part in the Hilcote Family Fun Run.

More than 120 pupils took part in the Buxton Primary Schools Hockey Tournament, held at Buxton Community School.

Buxton Hockey Club’s 1st team has won the Behaviour and Sociability award, voted for by the East Midlands Umpires’ Association.

A Derbyshire project to build a new teen play area has scooped £50,000 of BIG Lottery money.