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Youth Sail Racing Programmes

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Who's Who in Youth Racing

Who's Who in junior & Youth Racing?

Youth Racing Manager - Simon Wergan
Direct line 023 80604169
Mobile 07909 994640
E-mail simon.wergan@rya.org.uk  

Junior Racing Manager - Duncan Truswell 
Direct line 023 80604175
Mobile 07909 994639
E-mail duncan.truswell@rya.org.uk  

National Windsurfing Coach - Helen Cartwright
Direct line 023 80604196
Mobile 07867 972979
E-mail helen.cartwright@rya.org.uk

Senior Administrator, Youth Racing Programme
 - Anna Dickens
Direct Line 02380 604170
Email  anna.dickens@rya.org.uk 

Administrator, Youth Racing Programme - Frances Wilson
Direct Line: 02380 604173
Email frances.wilson@rya.org.uk

Administrator, Junior/Windsurfing Programme -
Tzaneen Mears
Direct Line 023 80604197
E-mail tzaneen.mears@rya.org.uk  

Team GBR Communications Officer
- Lindsey Bell
Direct Line 023 80604216
E-mail lindsey.bell@rya.org.uk

RYA
Youth & Junior Physiologist – Paul Mullan.
You can contact Paul via email on Paul.Mullan@rya.org.uk

High Performance Managers

There are 3 High Performance Managers who are responsible for identifying young talented sailors, supporting local champion clubs and managing zone/home country squads.

South & South West Zone - Chris Atherton

Chris is responsible for Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Poole Harbour, Chichester Harbour, Berkshire and Oxfordshire as the South Zone and Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and the Channel Islands as the South West Zone.

You can call Chris direct on 07909 994641 or e-mail him at chris.atherton@rya.org.uk  

East & South East Zones - Paul Wren

Paul is responsible for the East Zone which includes Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire and the South East Zone which inculdes Greater London, Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex and Kent. 

You can contact Paul on 07909 994642 or paul.wren@rya.org.uk

North & West Zone - Chris Blackburn

Chris is responsible for the West Zone which includes Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Isle of Man, Shropshire, Hereford, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Birmingham and the North Zone which includes Cleveland, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Humberside, Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

You can contact Chris direct on 0790 999 4637 or e-mail chris.blackburn@rya.org.uk

HPM Admin Support - Jenny Campbell-James
Jenny Campbell-James provides admin support for the above HPMs.
Jenny is contactable on 01243 641176 or e-mail jenny.campbell-james@rya.org.uk

Wales
- Tim Hall.
Tim is on 01248 670738, mobile: 07901 822844, or e-mail racing@thewya.org  

Scotland - Roy McCubbin.
You can ring Roy direct on 07786 333 541 or e-mail roymccubbin@yahoo.co.uk

Northern Ireland - Richard Honeyford 
Richard is on 07795 466624, or e-mail richard.honeyford@rya.org.uk

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