Rugby Sea Cadets

A well deserved 2nd Place was gained by the team from Rugby Sea Cadet Unit, made up of; Team Leader Leading Cadet Amy Suddens, Able Cadet Danni Parker, Ordinary Cadets Declan McKenna and Henry Spiby and Cadets Tom Soden and Dean Peasegood.

The competition consisted of a number stances which tested the cadets knowledge on chartwork, navigation, bends & hitches, the ability to carry out a rigging evolution and to identify different chart symbols.

The team from Rugby competed against three other teams from the Warwickshire District Sea Cadets; Coventry, Tamworth and Sutton Coldfield.  The scores were as follows:

1st Place – Coventry (178 Points)

2nd Place – Rugby (160 Points)

3rd Place – Sutton Coldfield (86 Points)

4th Place – Tamworth (85.4 Points)

The Coventry Sea Cadet team will go through to the South West Area Sea Cadet Seamanship Competition which will be held in Weston Super Mare in November 2009.

Rugby Sea Cadet Unit hosted the 2009 Warwickshire District .22 Shooting Competition at the Rugby TA Centre on Edward Street on Sunday 6th September.  The team, made up of Lance Corporal Ryan Bott and Marine Cadet 2nd Classes Ted Spiby, Christian Nunnally and James Barber shot well, taking First Place in the Overall Team Event for the highest amount of points as a team and the ‘Top Shot’ Award for the cadet scoring the most amount of points in the competition. The Top Shot Trophy was won by Marine Cadet 2nd Class Christian Nunnally with a score of 151 out of a possible score of 200.  The team scored 517 out of a possible 800 score with the rest of the district scoring as follows:

1st – Rugby (517 Points)

2nd – Redditch (282 Points)

3rd – Tamworth (189 Points)

3rd – Coventry (189 Points)

5th – Sutton Coldfield (150 Points)

For the first time, not one but two cadets from Rugby Sea Cadets, have been awarded the Reg Day Memorial Trophies for attaining the highest overall marks on a District Leading Cadet and Petty Officer Cadet Advancement Board.

The District Advancement Boards test the cadets ability in a number of disciplines to include, drill and ceremonial, leadership, instructional methods, fire safety and self discipline.

The two trophies, one for the highest mark attained on a District Leading Cadet Board and the other for the highest mark attained on a District Petty Officer Cadet Board were first awarded in 1996 by the widow of Reg Day, a former Chief Petty Officer in the Sea Cadets.

It is a great honour to have won both trophies in the same year, which were presented by the District Officer, Lieutenant Commander (SCC) G. Truelove RNR at the Warwickshire District Drill Competition, held on Sunday 8th February 2009.

The recipients of these trophies pictured below are Leading Cadet Aaron Snowdon and Petty Officer Cadet,  (now Probationary Petty Officer) Alice Spiby receiving their trophies from the Commanding Officer, Captain (SCC) David Scholes RMR.

The Junior Boys team at Rugby Sea Cadets haven taken 1st place again at the Warwickshire District 5-a-Side Football Competition held in Coventry today.

The team, consisting of Ordinary Cadets Ian Payne (Captain), Richard Suddens, Matthew Moseley, Declan McKenna and Cadet Adam Clayton started the tournament with high spirits, having won this competition at the start of the year.

The team will go though to the South West Area 5-a-Side Football Competition in January to be held at HMS Raleigh. They will represent Warwickshire District Sea Cadets alongside the Junior Girls from Redditch Sea Cadets and Senior Girls’ and Senior Boys’ teams from Coventry Sea Cadets.

Junior Boys 5-a-Side Football Team

Rugby Sea Cadet Unit took 3rd Place today in the Warwickshire District Sea Cadet Seamanship Competition held at Shirley Sea Cadet Unit today, Sunday 2nd November 2008.  Just four teams entered this year, from Sutton Coldfield Sea Cadets, Tamworth Sea Cadets, Coventry Sea Cadets and Rugby Sea Cadets.  The competition tested the cadets’ ability to work together as a team in various stances which included chartwork, navigation, rigging, ropework and bends & hitches. The team from Rugby, consisted of:

Leading Cadet Amy Suddens (Team Captain), Able Cadet Dani Parker, Ordinary Cadets Matthew Moseley and Ian Payne, Cadet Adam Clayton and Lance Corporal Ryan Bott. Team reserve Able Cadet Aaron Snowdon was also on hand during the day to support the team.

Scoring was extremely close this year with the following results:

1st – Coventry (159 Points)

2nd – Sutton Coldfield (155 Points)

3rd – Rugby (149 Points)

4th – Tamworth (86.7 Points)

Having won the District Seamanship Competition, Coventry Sea Cadets will go through to the Area Seamanship Competition at Weston Super Mare Unit later on this month. They will represent Warwickshire District and we wish them luck.

2008 Seamanship Team

Sunday 14th September 2008 brought and e the Warwickshire District .22 Shooting Competition and a 1st for the team from Rugby, made up of Lance Corporal Ryan Bott, Marine Cadets 2nd Class Ted Spiby, James Barber and Ordinary Cadet Christian Nunnally.  The all day competition was hosted by the Rugby Sea Cadet Unit and the TA Centre in Edward Street, Rugby, with indpendent judges from District and Area Level.  being the first to shoot at the range, is never easy as you have to wait all day for the other teams to compete, but once the end of the day came, it was clear that the team from Rugby had done enough to secure 1st Place in the competition and take the trophy for “best shot”, awarded to the cadet that gains the highest score in the competition.  This year Ordinary Cadet Christian Nunnally from Rugby unit, took the “best shot” award.

The results for the competition were as follows:

1st – Rugby (556 Points)

2nd – Tamworth (283 Points)

3rd – Coventry (264 Points)

4th – Redditch (248 Points)

5th – Sutton Coldfield (179 Points)

6th – Evesham (99 Points)

The team from Rugby will go through to the Area Competition in October at HMS Raleigh, Plymouth, to represent Warwickshire District.

Cadets from Rugby Sea Cadet Unit will, this weekend, take part in the Warwickshire District Swimming Regatta, which will be held at the Coventry Sports and Leisure Centre.  The Rugby Sea Cadets will be swimming against cadets from all over Warwickshire and the West Midlands, to include Coventry, Evesham, Nuneaton & Bedworth, Leamington & Warwick, Redditch, Tamworth, Shirley, Stratford and Sutton Coldfield.

Rugby SCC ET Team

Six cadets, led by Leading Cadet Alice Spiby competed at the Warwickshire District Expedition Training Challenge 2008, held in Cannock from Friday 9th to Sunday 11th May.  The challenge tested the team’s ability to navigate and work together in a series of stances to include First Aid, Lightening Strike and a Micro Navigational Exercise.  The team consisting of Leading Cadet Alice Spiby, Ordinary Cadet Danielle Parker, Cadet Sarah Parsons, Cadet Maddie Biddell, Ordinary Cadet Declan McKenna and Marine Cadet 2nd Class Jakk Cope, came 2nd to the team from Sutton Coldfield SCC. Our team, will go through to represent Warwickshire District at the South West Area Expedition Challenge in September 2008.