Medal glory for students

SPORTY students from Priestley College came home with medals for running, swimming and football after taking part in a national competition.
The 12 students were representing the north west region at the British Colleges Sport National Finals in Loughborough, along with 2,000 other competitors.
Cross country runners Rachel Jefferson and Sarah Griffiths led from the front landing gold.
Their efforts were matched in the pool where Ros Dunstan and Katie Scutt also won gold for their team. Fellow swimmers Martin Bosson and Vladimir Shulyak won bronze medals.
Charlie McElroy, Daffydd Floyd, Matt Petley, Dan Flinders, James Cox and Tom Dorsett, represented the region on the football field and also came away with bronze medals.
Many of the students are enrolled on the BTEC National Performance and Excellence programme at Priestley, aimed at supporting those in with a real chance of pursuing a career as a professional sportsman or woman.
Curriculum manager, Nige Howells, said: “It was great to witness the effort that the students put into their activities and they were all duly rewarded by scooping a medal for the North West.”
“This has been the most successful ever year for us in terms of British Colleges Sport. To get so many students in the North West team was a unique achievement but for them all to medal is simply amazing – I congratulate them all.”
Picture shows: Cross-country runners Sarah Griffiths (left) and Rachel Jefferson (right) who scooped Gold for the North West and swimmers, (left to right): Vladimir Shulyak (bronze), Ros Dunstan (gold), Katie Scutt (gold) and Martin Bosson (bronze), who were successful in the pool.