b'THE ELLESMERIANSport - The Academies168CricketCRICKET DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME WITH ACADEMYDaisy Cooke, Holly Cooke, and Skye Thomas have represented PATHWAY REPORT Lancashire Thunder and Daisy, with much honour, captained the side. All are involved in the Elite Player Programme. Georgia Munro has played TOP 100 SCHOOL OVER THE LAST 6 YEARSEllesmere Collegeage group cricket for Wales and has again been linked with the Western has once again been named as one of the Top 100 schools for cricketForce Academy, based in the South West and Wales. Western Force and in the country by the worlds leading cricket magazine, The Cricketer.Lancashire Thunder are two of eight regional hubs in domestic cricket Ellesmere College was selected from hundreds of applicants to make theinvolved in the new Womens Elite Domestic Structure providing world final list against an extensive list of criteria that each school had to meet.class training, coaching, and match play opportunities to develop the All entries are forensically examined against an exhaustive set of internalmost talented players.and external criteria. Ben Wright was again involved in the EPP Cheshire Cricket Programme REPRESENTATION and more recently Oliver Dyson is trialling for the Shropshire/ The school aims to provide talented young cricketers the chance toWorcestershire EPP programme. This year the following were involved receive top-level coaching and playing opportunities whilst furtheringin representative cricket: Oliver Dyson, Skye Thomas, Daisy Cooke, Hugh their education.Cornwell, Georgia Munro, Ella Jones, Hugh Cornwell, Ewan Skillicorn, Ewan Nicholson, Harry Harrison, William Ward, Harry Walker, and James Any boy or girl wishing to play cricket has the opportunity to do so. AnySkillicorn. Henry Roberts played several games for North Wales.boy or girl aspiring to become a county and/or professional cricketer has the opportunity to progress. Throughout the school there are over 60 pupils who are involved in playing for local clubs.Two players were honoured with Shropshire County Awards: Oliver Dyson, and Sayak Mukherjee received batting and bowling representative awards for their Shropshire respective age group teams. AWARDS AND COLOURSSenior SchoolFor Cheshire Cricket Board, Skye Thomas received the U13 BattingThe following were awarded their cricket colours for their significant Award and Performance of the Year scoring 58 runs while playing for thecontributions to the Ellesmere College Cricket Community:U18s. She also was selected for the Team of the Year Award. Year 13 Senior Full: Oliver Moore, Ben Wright, Georgia Munro, Sam Appleby, William Owen, Montgomery Henderson, Valerie Fabery de Jonge.'