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JUNIOR SCHOOLS ARENA CHAMPIONSHIPS

 

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

 

JUNIOR SCHOOLS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS



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.