October

Derbyshire Sport is to launch a new initiative to allow more businesses to unite and play their part in helping Derbyshire to become one of the most active and successful sporting counties in England by 2020.

Derbyshire has played host to this year’s East Midlands Boccia Tournament.

Kevin Malone from Killamarsh Juniors Cricket Club has won a national cricket OSCA.

Derby City Council has approved plans to develop a major new sports facilities infrastructure in the city.

A total of 60 coaches have been awarded a share of a £6,206 funding pot from the latest round of the Derbyshire Sport Coach Bursary Fund. 

School Sports Partnerships, specifically PDMs, are being encouraged to nominate clubs that work in partnership with their schools for the School-Club Links Award 2011.

Entries are now being accepted for the Derbyshire Building Society 2011 10K Run, Family 3K Fun Run and Cooper Parry Business Team Challenge, which will take place on Sunday, April 3, 2011 at Pride Park, Derby.

A group of students from Kirk Hallam Community Technology and Sports College in Ilkeston have visited the Olympic Park in London after winning through to the national final of a competition run through the Get Set Network.

Tapton Park Golf Club players Alex Williams and Emily Waterson have scooped a remarkable title double at a national championship on the Eden Course at St Andrews.

Chesterfield jet skier Lee Stone has clinched his fifth World title, having been crowned 2010 IJSBA Pro Freestyle World Champion at the International Jet Sport Boating Association (IJSBA) World Finals in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

Derbyshire racing cyclist Adam Blythe has taken overall victory in the Circuit Franco-Belge after winning two stages.

Derbyshire has won five national awards at the England Netball Goalden Globes Awards 2010.

Some of the county’s best and brightest sporting stars, coaches and volunteers will find out next month if they have won a prestigious prize at the 2010 Derbyshire Sports Awards, sponsored by the University of Derby.

Following on from an extremely successful pilot programme, Wirksworth Colts Football Club in partnership with Derbyshire Dales District Council, Derbyshire FA and Derby County in the Community, have launched their permanent Disability Football Sessions which are held on a weekly basis at Wirksworth Leisure Centre.

The Derby College golf team stormed to first place in the recent ISGA college golf tour event held at Matlock Golf Club.

The Derbyshire Athletics Network has held its first Coach and Athlete Training Day, where coaches and athletes were mentored by top athletes Dwain Chambers and Daniel Caines.

The first school in Derby has been selected to visit the London 2012 Olympic Park in Stratford.

An elite regional squad for football players with cerebral palsy and other brain injuries has been set up.

Applications for a bursary from the Derbyshire Talented Athlete Fund 2011 are now being invited.

Queen’s Park Sports Centre in Chesterfield is starting a new campaign to encourage people back into sports. The ‘Return to Sports’ campaign is being launched at the Centre by local badminton champion Donna Kellogg MBE, on October 10. 

The 2010 Commonwealth Games are now underway in Delhi, India, and a number of Derbyshire’s sportsmen and women are among the thousands of competitors taking part.

Netherthorpe School pupil Sean Cullen and Holmgate Primary School pupil Olivia Heardman were among the winners at the Derbyshire Schools' Sports Association Sports Awards.