NI Division Set Up

Within Northern Ireland our talent identification programme starts at shcool level which leads into Regional Development Squads. There is one RDS squad within each of the education library boards, Belfast, South, South East, West and North East. Each squad has multiple feeder schools which combine to train and play together. The young players are competing for places within their region to play in the Sport Northern Ireland Youth Games and now for selection to train in the UK School Games squad. With an increase in schools participating NIVA hope to see strong squads from each region competing at the Sport Northern Ireland Youth Games allowing NIVA coaches more opportunity to see and select new and upcoming talent for the future.

The next stage for the young athletes competing at the UKSG is to train and aim to compete at junior national level as well as encouraging them to base themselves within a club set up.

NI Junior Men Competing in Liechtenstein