This year has been a year of mixed fortunes for the academy, our numbers have
shrunk slightly due to having lost some of the more senior members some through
now being to old to continue with us and others have left us for the right
reasons as they wanted to continue they darting careers by playing league darts.
2011 has seen our first inductee Harry Annals enrolled into unicorns generation
180 catergory. This is a great achievement not only for Harry but also for the
academy to be regognised for its support and encouragement of youth darts in the
south of the country. 2011 also saw us play 2 friendly games against Hampshire
Youth both of which we lost narrowly, again for most of our members this would
have been the first time that they will have played on a stage in front of lots
of spectators and we hope that with the experience they gained through this we
can organise more games against other countys in the near future. We now have 6
members of the academy playing county youth darts 5 for hampshire and 1 for
sussex, we hope that we can continue to provide players for the county teams and
that they have great success with those teams to which they belong. Some of our
members played on the Unicorn Youth tour this year with mixed fortunes and we
hope that 2012 will see them competing at more of the events and make an impact
on the national youth game.
Presentation evening was on Monday 19th December and we were fortunate to have
with us from Unicorn Darts Peter Johnson to make the presentations. With over 30
awards to make it was nice to see that this year everyone won something, this i
think you would agree shows that the darting gaps between our members is now
decreasing and that everyone is playing at a much higher standard compared to
last year. Presentation evening saw the 2nd member of the academy enrolled into
generation 180 and this years winner has not only showed his commitment to the
academy, but has also become a regular part of the county youth team and
consistently won man of the match awards playing with a near 25 average. He has
also outside of the academy being playing in local leagues becoming one of the
top 5 players in the local petersfield league but also a regular performer at
super league as well. So the Unicorn Petersfield Darts Academy Player of the
YEar and Winner of the Generation 180 Award Jack Marriner.
We look forward to everything that 2012 has to offer and with the re structure
of the committee that is ped i am hoping that this will free up my time more to
concentrate on developing the academy behind the scenes working on various ideas
with the many different people we have links with. We are in 2012 going to be
holding a super league style singles league which is open to not only members of
the academy but anyone else that wishes to enter it. Full details of all our
events can be found on our websitewww.petersfieldacademy.co.uk. I would like to
take this oppertunity to thank Unicorn for once again supporting the academy
this year and hope that we can continue to develop our relationship in 2012,
without Unicorns support and backing we would not be able to be in the position
we are in helping the youngsters to develop their not only darting careers but
their personal development away from darts.
Happy Darting and good luck to all in 2012 Love Darts - Live Darts - Play Darts
