| RYA
Youth Programme Youth
Racing manager: Steve Joel Six
High Performance Managers (see below) who will focus on:
- Identifying
sailing talent
- supporting
Champion Clubs
- Planning
long term development of talented sailors
- Optimising
individual sailor preparation
- Creating
talented sailor training partnerships and groups
- Managing
support services to meet selected sailors needs
- Tracking
each sailors development
- Providing
a primary point of contact for talented sailors
- Developing
the overall range of support service resources
The
programme is long term as you can see from the tables on the right. Conact
RYA through thier site link
here Junior
Development Squad (open
to all youngsters regardless of standard) |
Volvo
RYA Champion Club Scheme | Increase
young sailors and raise standards of coaching, competition and social activities |
|
RYA
Talent Search Programme | Identify
talented young sailors |
|
RYA
Regional Junior Talent Squads | Regional
training weekends and workshops to nuture talented sailors |
| Volvo
RYA Regional Youth Championships | Each
RYA region holds an open event for youth classes |
| RYA
Great Britain Junior Training Squads | Individual
support & training for approximatly 260 dinghy sailors and windsurfers, with
individual training grants, fitness testing, nutritional and psycholigical support
and increased international competition support |
| Volvo
RYA Youth Championships | Open
championship (April/May at Grafham for dinghies) Dinghies: 420 boy & girl,
Laser boy, Laser Radial boy & girl, 29er Windsurfing:
(Sept at Weymouth): JOD, 103, Aloha, IMCO, Raceboard and Formula Windsurfing |
|
Volvo
RYA Great Britain Youth Training Squad | Individual
support and training weekends for approximatly 140 sailors. The squad will have
individual training grants, increased international competition, specialist sailing
services, conditioning, fitness testing, nutritional, medical and psycholigical
support from some of Britain's leading coaches. |
| Volvo
RYA Youth World Championship Trials | Open
event in October to select team to represent Great Britain at next Volvo Youth
Sailing ISAF World Championships (Sydney in 2000) |
| Volvo
RYA Great Britain Youth Team | Team
from sailors selected at trials. They will recieve specialist support for maximum
chance of success. |
|
Volvo
Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships | Dubbed
the youth olympics, teams from 40 nations will compete in Dec 2000 at Sydney |
|
RYA
Olympic Development Programme
| Youth
to Olympic team programme |
