CARDIFF and Vale College Sport Academies had their best ever season in 2021/21 and saw teams bring in a record amount of silverware.

The basketball academy won the Association of Colleges Welsh Basketball Championships after entering for the first time.

They then progressed on to represent Wales Colleges Basketball at the AoC National Championships at Nottingham University.

Nine players from the cricket academy earned caps for Wales.

The football academy won the English Colleges Football Association CAT2 division.

Students at the college won the Welsh Colleges Ability Counts Football Tournament, progressing on to represent Wales Colleges at the AoC National Championships.

Gabby Healan went on to win her first senior cap for Wales in rugby after previously representing Wales at U18 level.

Rachel Thomas-Evans represented Wales in touch rugby and 11 players represented Cardiff in regional U18s.

Rugby Academy player Millie Purchase-Smith also represented Wales in water polo.

In men's rugby, six players made the Wales national U18 squad and two made it to U20 level.

William Hawker also represented Wales at Welsh Athletics.

The college says that a significant amount of rugby players from the college represented their region.

The rugby academy won the WRU Schools and Colleges League cup at the Principality Stadium.

CAVC Group principal, Kay Martin, said: "After an extremely difficult and challenging two years where sporting events were seriously curtailed, the CAVC Sport Academies certainly came out fighting.

"Our Academies foster and develop sporting excellence while also supporting the players’ education needs, and the results this year have been outstanding.

"We’re all extremely proud of them all, and of the specialist staff and coaches who work so hard behind the scenes to support such sporting success."

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