Junior Schools
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MESSAGE FROM JANE PHELPS, JUNIOR SCHOOLS MANAGER
Dear Polo Managers, parents, Horse Hirers and other's who enjoyed the SUPA tournament on Sunday!
A huge thank you, to you, and your teams, for making Sunday afternoon a very enjoyable tournament. We were hugely lucky with the weather - about time! - and the lovely surroundings of Ranelagh Farm. My appreciation too for your tolerance as we tied up
all the arrangements! Congratulations to the winners and I hope valuable experience gained to those who did not!. Melissa Bastin, our photographer for the day, took some wonderful pictures so do check them out here:
https://melissabastinphotography.shootproof.com/gallery/6657790 .i
For future planning, it would be helfpul to know when would be best for you to have junior tournaments and please recommend to me clubs that you think would be happy to host SUPA and which would serve us well. We do appreciate that it puts a huge burden
on a busy club to make facilities avaialble to us over club members at key playing times but for the future of the sport, we must endourage the next generation of players. Do you think there are other prep schools who we could interest in forming teams?
I so much enjoyed putting faces to names yesterday and I look forward to seeing you all again.
All good wishes
Jane Phelps
Manaager, Junior Schools
Scheduled for 13th May at Ranelagh Farm Polo Club, Crouch Lane, Windsor, SL4 4TN by kind agreement with Oscar Mancini.
25TH JANUARY 2018 - UPDATE FROM THE HPA REGARDING HELMETS/HATS
As you are aware the HPA have introduced the minimum standard for polo helmets they must be type approved to at least one of the standards PAS015:2011 with CE mark, SNELL E2001, VG1 01.040 2014-12, or UTAC/CRITT 04/2015.
PAS015:1998 is the previous version of PAS015:2011.
Due to extended lead times retailers often carried high stocks of helmets and therefore there are still helmets available that are labelled PAS015:1998.
The HPA will allow the use of helmets that are labelled PAS015:1998.
PLEASE NOTE THAT FROM 1ST JANUARY 2018 SUPA WILL BE ENFORCING THE HPA RULING ON HELMETS www.hpa-polo.co.uk/2018-helmet-regulations/ YOUR INSURANCE WILL BE INVALID AND YOU WILL BE UNABLE TO PLAY IN ANY SUPA TOURNAMENTS IF YOUR HAT DOES NOT MEET
THE CRITERIA
BELOW ARE THE HELMETS THAT MEET THE REQUIRED STANDARDS
| Manufacturer |
Model |
Standard |
| Charles Owen |
Palermo Polo |
PAS015:2011 and VG1 01.040-2014 |
| Charles Owen |
Polo Edition |
PAS015:2011 and VG1 01.040-2014 |
| Charles Owen |
Young Rider Polo
|
PAS015:2011 and VG1 01.040-2014 |
| Armis |
Armis |
PAS015:2011, ASTM(Pending),VG1 01.040-2014 and Certified with MIPS |
| GPA |
Speed Air / Polo X2 |
UTAC/CRITT 04/2015 andVG1 01.040-2014 |
| Instinct Polo |
TBC |
PAS015:2011 |
FUTURE TOURNAMENT DATES
Arena Tournament - Sunday, 4th March 2018 - Rugby Polo Club
Grass Tournament - Sunday, 13th May 2018 - venue tbc
RESULTS FROM JUNIOR SCHOOLS NATIONAL ARENA CHAMPIONSHIPS - 26TH FEBRUARY 2017
Over 17 Prep Schools were represented on Sunday, 26th February, at the SUPA Junior Schools National Arena Championships, held at West Wycombe Polo Club
The overall winners were Winchester House School.
Fred Thame from Winchester House School was awarded named the "Most Promising Player" in the Open Section and awarded a beautiful pair of knee pads from the Worshipful Company of Saddlers. Hector Rogberg from the Dragon School was awarded "MVP" in the Intermediate
Section.
Results
Open
1st Winchester House School
2nd SUPA Green
3rd Murphy Blue
4th SUPA Red
Intermediate
1st Dragon Navy
2nd Hall Grove School
3rd Summerfields
4th Lambrook
Novice
1st Wycombe Abbey
2nd Dragon sky
3rd Heathfield
SUPA Colours were awarded to all players in winning teams.