Published: Thursday, 19th July, 2007 12:00pm

Sofia, so good for water polo player Andrew

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DUNFERMLINE Water Polo Club"s Andrew Woodall has been selected for the GB junior water polo team to take part in a tournament which is being held in Sofia, Bulgaria early in August.

The tournament will be good preparation for the European Junior Championships next year. Only two Scottish players were selected for the team and Andrew follows club colleague Alasdair Campbell, who gained selection for the previous team and has now moved on to senior water polo.

Andrew only took up water polo two and a half years ago having taken the decision to retire from competitive swimming at 12. As a result of taking up water polo he has now returned to competitive swimming and is also a member of InCAS. He has improved dramatically over the short period of time that he has been playing water polo through the club"s successful junior development programme and has also played for the club at senior level. With water polo a major sport on the continent Andrew is looking forward to an extremely tough baptism in Bulgaria facing the hosts, Serbia, Austria and Macedonia.

The club, which has a record 37 players at under-16 level, is to receive a £1250 grant from the Carnegie Dunfermline Trustees towards their coaching and youth development programme.

The cash will help underwrite the £2240 cost of mounting a course at Carnegie Centre later this year to bring club coaches up to the new UKCC Level 1.

The club has players in all Scottish squads from under-15 and the Great Britain youth and junior squads.