Welcome to the June 2009 issue of the WSA e-newsletter, giving you a flavour of some of the recent sporting activities and achievements in Wales.

Youth gained the better of experience in the Welsh Amateur Snooker Championships last month.  Welsh Association president Darren Morgan, who was world number eight on the professional ranking list and who is heading to India later this year for the World Masters, went down 8-2 to Neath's Michael White.  Click here

Mark Wool has joined an elite group of Welshmen who have captained Great Britain at rugby league.  And now, he could achieve even greater feats by becoming skipper of the squad when they take part in a two-match tour of Australia. Click here

James Thie is eager for Wales to return to the 'golden days of athletics' of the past.  The British international, who ran at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and at the World Indoor Championships two years earlier, has recently been appointed as the Welsh Athletics Competitions Manager which is similar to an operations role for competitions around the Principality.  Click here

It has been quite a year for rising Welsh hockey star Lewis Prosser - although he was worried his success may not have happened at all.  Click here

Pembrokeshire trio Rob Mason, Jason Scourfield and James Thorneycroft (pictured) emerged triumphant from fencing's Welsh Team Foil Championships at the Wales Institute of Sport.  Click here

Wales can expect one of the best road cycling races in National Championships history when the men's title is decided around Monmouthshire next month, believes Welsh Olympic star Geraint Thomas.  Click here

Ask any sports fanatic around Grangetown, Cardiff, who scored for Manchester United on Saturday and they may be able to tell you.  Ask who took all the wickets for reigning Welsh Baseball Union Premier Division champions Grange Albion that same day and everyone will know.  Click here

Everything is going a bit Australian in Wales this summer with the arrival of cricket's Ashes Series to the SWALEC Stadium and now the brother of a world legend turning up to play golf.  Click here

Andrew Selby could become one of Wales' Commonwealth Games stars in the Delhi ring next year.  The 20-year-old, who is a member of Splott ABC, Cardiff, but was born Blaengwynfi, Neath, was hoping to emulate Welsh legends such as Joe Calazghe, Colin Jones and Nicky Piper at the end of last month. Click here

Former Glamorgan captain Steve James hopes the county can reap the rewards of the first ever full-scale Test match to be played in Cardiff. Click here

Wrexham’s Chris Bartley has taken a big step towards the 2012 London Olympics by being picked for a British rowing team.  Bartley is at stroke for the Great Britain lightweight four at the first World Cup regatta of the year over the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games course. Click here

Neil Smith had an idea three years ago to entice the world's best Paralympic cyclist to Wales while they were in the UK.  Click here

Interest has already began from teams heading to the Olympics and Paralympics in a state-of-the-art facility in the centre of Cardiff which is not even open yet. Click here

Mike Fatkin spent a quarter-of-a-century looking over the green fields of Sophia Gardens as he worked his way through the ranks of Glamorgan County Cricket Club.  Click here

Welsh ace Rhys Williams is aiming to put an agonising two years of hell behind him this summer and come out with all guns blazing for the new athletics season. Click here