Exeter City Legend Presents Awards to Future Football Stars

EXETER City striker Adam Stansfield was at Petroc last month to present awards to future footballing stars.

Petroc

in Tiverton held their

annual end-of-season football awards at the Bolham Road campus on

June 18 and were honoured by the presence of Devon footballing legend , Adam Stansfield.

Adam presented a trophy named in his honour – the ‘Adam Stansfield

Players’ Player Shield’ to second year Petroc sport student and

former Tiverton High School pupil, Adam Carey, 18.

Second

year Petroc student

eighteen year old Joe Wren from Tiverton, also a former Tiverton High

School

pupil, received the ‘Chris Vinnicombe Cup,’ awarded and presented

by Tiverton Town Football Club’s new manager and Petroc’s Football

Academy coach, Chris Vinnicombe, as the ‘player of the year’.

Petroc

first year student

seventeen year old Ethan Pavey from Cullompton, a former Cullompton

Community

College pupil, received the ‘Golden Boot Award’ as the top goal

scorer from Football Academy Manager and Petroc sport lecturer Ben

Broyd.

Ben said: “The Football

Academy has been extremely fortunate to have Chris Vinnicombe coaching

the team

for the last four years.  We are so lucky to have such inspirational

footballing legends supporting our team and honouring the players in

this way. 

“Petroc

has an ongoing

partnership with Tiverton Town Football Club and that partnership has

gone from

strength to strength, especially now with Chris appointed as their new

manager,

and luckily for Petroc, Chris is able to combine both roles.

“Exeter

City player Adam

Stansfield has had a long association with the area and he’s a great

role

model as a footballer.  His current battle with illness has reflected

some

of his on field qualities.

“It

was great for our

players to meet Stanno and to give up his personal time particularly

while he

is recuperating from ill health -  just shows the measure of the man.

“We

all wish him a speedy

recovery and we look forward to see him playing next season at St

James’s

Park.

“We

would also like to wish

Chris the best of luck in his new role as manager of Tiverton Town FC.”