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Riverain Bowls Club Youth Section

Riverain Indoor Bowls Club runs bowling sessions for young players under the age of 18 in Hertfordshire.

Each session costs £4 per child and all you need to get started is a clean pair of flat soled trainers or shoes.

2023 Young Players

The juniors meet from 9.15am to 11.30am most Saturday mornings at Riverain from October to April and is led by a team of highly qualified coaching staff headed by Eddie Plume.
The coaches are dedicated to working with the young players to help them reach their potential and are all trained in safeguarding.

What can the Young Players expect at our Saturday Sessions?
Our nationally qualified coaches combine both the improvement of bowling skills with an element of fun. There are singles and pairs competitions. "Fun" competitive trophies as well as the English Indoor Bowling Association Awards scheme.
For the younger element we have our own "County" award scheme ranging from the basic Bronze level, through to Silver and Gold. Once a bowler has achieved the county Gold, we then take them on through the extremely skilful EIBA scheme. This is difficult even for many top club bowlers be we have had a number of successes at the Gold Level.

County and International Success
Quite a number of the current and former Young Bowlers have had good successes at, not only County level, but have gone on to represent England on the International stage.
Besides winning both indoor and outdoor County finals, a number of the girls and boys have been active in the County squads playing inter-county competitions. There have also been a number of Champions on the National Stage both as Young Bowlers and also Senior competitions.
We have seen representatives both indoors and outdoors playing in the National under-18s, under-25s and even the Senior squads for England.

Recent Awards

2024
County Bronze Aled Delaney, Oliver Johnson
County Silver Ava Lee, Skylar Yiu, Anthea Law, Andre Law,
Aled Delaney, Noah Jones, Felix Wallace, Oliver Johnson
County Gold Callum Smith, Edward Miles, Matthew Murphy, Ava Lee
Tyler Stott, Alfie Williams, Ethan Jones, Ruby Williams
National EIBA Bronze Callum Smith, Edward Miles, Matthew Murphy,
Alfie Williams, Ethan Jones
Arthur Hemmings SinglesWinner – Ollie Runner Up – Finley
Arthur Hemmings Pairs Winner – Kieran, Ava Runner Up – Edward, Ava
Sandra Smale Junior Winner – Ollie Runner Up – Ruby, Felix
Sandra Smale Senior Winner – Edward Runner Up – Alfie
Highest Score - Kieran
Generation Game Winner - Finley (Mel)Runner Up - Ava (Simon)

Recent National Successes

2024 Outdoor
Junior Singles Runner Up - Dylan Martin
Mixed Pairs Runner Up - Rhianna Russell
National Finals Qualifiers Sam Andrews, Dylan Martin, Matthew Murphy, Rhianna Russell
Under 17 England Boys International Series Matthew Murphy
Under 25 England Girls International SeriesRhianna Russell

2023 Outdoor
National Ladies Two-Wood Singles Rhianna Russell Semi-finalist
Under 18 England Girls International SeriesRhianna Russell
Under 25 England Girls International SeriesRhianna Russell, Devon Cooper, Rachel Tremlett

2022-23 Indoor National Under 18 Boys Champion Sam Andrews Under 18 England Girls International SeriesRhianna Russell Under 25 England Girls International SeriesRhianna Russell, Devon Cooper, Rachel Tremlett EIBA Youth Gold Award Sam Andrews, Hayden Chambers, Rhianna Russell, Kieran Smith
2022 Outdoor
National Ladies Two-Wood Singles Champion Rhianna Russell
Under 25 England Girls International SeriesDevon Cooper, Rachel Tremlett

For more information, please email juniors@riverain.co.uk
Or phone our Head Coach Eddie Plume on 07976 896718 or Youth Secretary Lucy Williams on 07773 315761.
Or use this contact form to give us your details.
Please make contact with us before coming along for the first time to make sure there are no competitions going on that day.

Notice of Child Protection Policy
In accordance with the Policy and Guidelines issued by Bowls England, Riverain Indoor Bowls Club fully accepts its legal and moral obligation to exercise its duty of care and to protect all children (and vulnerable adults) participating in its activities and to safeguard their welfare.

We are committed to do this by acknowledging that :-

We shall use our best endeavours to ensure that :-

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