City Youth Girls say Thankyou

St Albans stores Morrison's and Sainsburys supported the recent Girls tour to Holland by allowing bag packing  at their stores.

As a Thankyou to both stores, representatives from the City Youth Girls teams who took part, presented both store managers with framed team pictures.

Anthony Roche gets to the finish line

Anthony Roche, running the London Marathon raises over £700 for the disabled team

Here is Anthony's own words with a few bits added.

“I finished and have the medal to prove it! 

However the run didn't go as hoped. I was on schedule at halfway - 1:56:40, which was 20 seconds inside my target for the first half. Just after the 14 mile point another runner cut in front of me chasing a bloke on a push bike, looked very much like that Peter Towndrow character, and in trying to get out of the way I slipped and twisted my knee. From that point on due to the pain in my knee I was only able to run for five minutes at a time before being forced to walk - and then due to the pain the bits I was able to run got shorter and the walks longer.

At around 18 miles I had the knee looked at by St John's ambulance, who advised me to pull out. Being stubborn I refused and carried on, although I was mainly walking from that point on. As you will be aware the weather was awful and I ended up soaked through and very cold. By the time I finished in 5:08:49 I was not in a good state and had to go to the first aid tent at the finish - where they wrapped me in blankets and after half an hour of uncontrollable shivering I began to warm up. Had the flu for 3 days as a result mind.

Overall pleased I finished in the circumstances, but disappointed that I wasn't able to do as well as I'd hoped after all the training.”

Well done Anthony.

Will you be doing the run next year!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Top Award for Daniel Rogers

Dan Rogers, Club Disability Officer wins Herts Sports Partnership Service to Sport  Award.

Dan was awarded 'The Paul Pearce' Coach of Disabled Performers Award at a presentation ceremony on Tuesday evening. The award was in recognition of Dan's outstanding contribution to Disabled Sport in Hertfordshire with St Albans Special Olympics and City Youth.  Well done Dan from all at City youth.

City Youth honoured in District Awards

March 2006

St Albans City Youth Football club received the City and District of St Albans Community Club of the Year award at a ceremony on Monday 27th March.

Other awards on the night included, City Youths Graham Folwell and Simon Marjoram received the joint Community Coach of the Year award and Will Jones picked up second place in the Young Coach of the Year section.

February 2006

JIM BENNETT

The Club is sorry to have to report the death of Jim Bennett who was the Club's founder manager. It was in 1970 that Jim suggested the formation of an under 12 team based on a side which had been successful in Cub football. Together with John Churchill he took this side through to under 18 winning several trophies along the way. When these players moved on to adult football Jim continued his involvement with the Club as Club Chairman and then as a Vice President. It is fair to say that if it hadn't been for Jim there would not be a St Albans City Youth F C and hundreds of youngsters would not have had the opportunity to play organised football. Our condolences go to Jim's widow Mavis and to Clive and Trina.

New Club & Charity Management Structure

A new club structure has been introduced designed to enable City Youth to continue building its reputation as one of the premier youth football clubs in the county.

Club Chairman Clive Attwood and Secretary Ian Woods will run the day to day football operation and former Chairman Mervyn Morgan will look after the Charity Board of Trustees and Development aspects of the club.

The growth of the club in recent years has brought forward the need to restructure and help spread the ever increasing workload involved in running a club such as City Youth.

The club is also please to announce that Robert Murphy, Gill Savory, Neil Deacon and David Wray have all agreed to join Mervyn Morgan, Jeff Lawrence and Ian Woods on the City Youth Charity Board Of Trustees.

Revised Club Structure 2006

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ST ALBANS CITY YOUTH -  GIRLS FOOTBALL

History

The recent game between Hoddesdon Owls and St Albans City Youth Under-14 Girls saw a little bit of history being made.  Before the game started, a presentation was made to Jane Jardine to mark the fact that she was playing her 100^th game for St Albans City Youth.  She is the first girl in the club to reach this achievement.  She has been at every game since her first in September 2001, missing only one when illness forced her to give up during the warm-up.

By a strange co-incidence Jane’s very first game was also against Hoddesdon Owls and so it was appropriate that Colin Ince, who has done so much for Girls Football in Hoddesdon and Hertfordshire, was able to make the presentation. She was given a framed photograph of her with that very first St Albans City Youth team on that September day in 2001.

The two teams then entered into the spirit of the occasion and produced a tremendous game of football that ended 4-4. 

With the growth of girls football in recent years it is anticipated that there will be many more girls reaching the 100 game mark in this and following years.

September 05

Vandals Damage Highfield Pitches

After spending nearly 8 years and £300k getting the Home of City Youth at Highfield Park ready for football, a bunch of what I can only call idiots have taken to driving cars and motor cycles over the pitches on both fields causing damage to the playing surfaces (See picture above).

The Police are aware, however everyone can help, if you live near Highfield Park or are just passing and you see these people driving around the playing fields then call 999. If possible get the registration number of the vehicles involved, even better if you have a camera phone take a picture and pass it to the Police. Please remember, do not confront these vandals, contact the Police and they will do the rest.

These vandals must be stopped.

Highfield park is a facility not only for City Youth but also the Local Community.

Mervyn Morgan

September 05

Under 18's South new kit, thanks to the Abbey Theatre

Mr Don Hayward of Abbey Theatre officially handed over the new kit for the Under 18's South.  The money was raised following a charity production by the Abbey Theatre group earlier in the year.

This seasons Abbey Theatre Charity Evening will be on Thursday 10th November 2005. The money raised will help to provide the Under 14 team run by Chris Pearce with a sponsored kit. For full details contact David Wray on 01727 858577.

August 05

Neil Deacon Sponsored Cycle Ride

Lands End to John O'Groats

After 1015 miles smiles all round

Neil hopes to have raised around £3,000 for the 'Highfield Project' and would like to thank all his sponsors. You can still sponsor Neil by Emailing your pledge to pledge@cityyouthfc.com

Just Email us your name, address, telephone number and how much you would like to pledge.

You can see the route and Neils daily updates here Progress tracker