For detailed information about any of the vacancies listed below, please click on the individual job title.

5x60 Co-ordinator
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Closing date: Wednesday 27th June 2012

Academy Coach
Golf Union of Wales
Closing date: Tuesday 3rd July 2012

Events and Communications Officer
Welsh Cycling
Closing date: Friday 6th July 2012

Schools and Early Years Manager
Welsh Gymnastics
Closing date: Thursday 12th July 2012

Research Officer
Welsh Gymnastics
Closing date: Thursday 12th July 2012

North Wales Regional Chair
Hockey Wales
Closing date: Saturday 21st July 2012

Further information about the jobs listed above is also available on the recruitment page of our web site.

If you'd like to advertise a vacancy on our web site or in future editions of this e-newsletter, please email Paul Dancey or telephone Wendy on 029 2033 8237.

Details of future training/workshops for NGBs will be published in due course on the Training Programme page of our web site, when our 2012 training programme has been finalized.

Please send all articles for our web site or future editions of this newsletter to: paul-dancey@welshsports.co.uk

Lee Doran is aiming a long way - and not just in terms of how far he can throw a javelin. Doran, 27, will be defending his UK Championships title in Birmingham this month and, if he can beat his personal best, set last year in winning the British crown, by five metres, he should nail a place at the London Olympics... more

Welsh stars set new records and personal bests as the national Championships celebrated the jubilee with a huge three-day tournament in Cardiff this month. Athletes from the very young to seniors, both able bodied and disabled, turned on the style at the National Arena in Leckwith, and, for some, it was a warm-up for the biggest competition of their lives... more

Badminton player Jordan Hart was a double golden girl as Wales came home with an array of medals at this year's UK School Games in London. The Games, normally held later in the late summer, were brought forward due to this year's Olympic and Paralympic tournaments in the capital city... more

Players from across Great Britain will be in Cardiff next month for the highlight of the Petanque season - the Home Nations Championships. The tournament, first held at the Millennium Stadium 12 years ago, is being held on July 21 and 22 at Monkstone Petanque Club, who use the Pen-Y-Lan Club, Roath, Cardiff... more

Wales has some exceptional talent in the table tennis arena at the moment and hopes are high for a bright future. Able bodied teenagers are making their marks around the world, coached by multi-national champion Ryan Jenkins. But this summer, the Paralympians... more

Windsurfers Reservoir Dogs showed they are determined to make it a hat-trick of Welsh titles, with a new team of quick learners. The Gwent team won the first round of the RYA Wales Team15 Inter-Club Championship, keeping the Reservoir Dogs in line to win the title... more

he Welsh Sports Association Board would like to welcome Anne Hamilton who has joined the WSA as General Manager. Her appointment is for one year and is on a 20 hour per week basis. Anne will be spending her initial time contacting and working with the 27 sports that the WSA is supporting with their strategic plans... more

Walking around the hills and valleys of Wales is a natural passion for many of the public and Heather Lewis is no different in her love of putting one foot in front of the other except for one thing - she does it very fast! Race walking has not been a great discipline in the Principality for decades and it is always a shame when, at the annual Welsh Athletics Championships at Leckwith Stadium, just a handful of competitors toe the start line... more

Wales has a great record of producing marathon runners but Aberdare's Richie Gardiner (pictured right) hopes to become the best ever next year. In the last few decades, the likes of Steve Brace and Steve Jones have run in Olympic Games, with Newport ace Jones holding the world record at two hours eight minutes and five seconds in 1984 over the Chicago course... more

Very few athletes at the London Olympics assume an air of confidence to think they are racing certainties for gold. And Bridgend's Helen Jenkins would never class herself in that category, given the huge competition on the global triathlon circuit. But there is no doubt that Jenkins is the woman to beat... more

In 2015, athletes will gather in Los Angeles for the next Special Olympics spectacular, a competition for people with intellectual difficulties. However, an initiative in the Vale of Glamorgan is helping youngsters with one of the 'invisible' disabilities become far more active in sport... more

Gwent Sword Club cemented their place as the Principality's leading foil club by taking all four top places in the Welsh Team Championships. The men's A team of Rhys Melia, Ceri Richards and Richard Thomas were undefeated throughout the competition... more

Sarah Thomas is making 'good progress' in her recovery from injury in time for a place in Britain's London Olympics hockey team. The Aberdare 31-year-old is looking to make her appearance at the Games, her second after featuring in Beijing 2008, and is the only Welsh competitor in the side... more

Cardiff's Tom James is set to become a member of the next great British rowing dynasty after gaining selection in the prestigious Men's Four crew for the London Olympic Games next month. The Wrexham-based 28-year-old has been picked... more

When Clare Strange suffered a life-changing accident in 1997, it would have been the furthest thing from her mind that one day she would become a sporting legend. Strange fell off a horse while riding but was so determined that this would not signal the end of her life as a sportswoman that she searched to find something not that she could just do but excel at... more

If sports did not have judges or referees, there would be no sport but many of those who officiate at events are unpaid volunteers. Now the hunt is on for a new batch of these essential yet unsung heroes in the swimming arena after a new academy was launched in Wales... more

Welsh rower Sophie Slaney became only the second ever winner of the biggest women's race in the world, the Women's Eights Head over the reverse Boat Race course. Rebecca Rowe won the 4.25 mile time trial in 2007 in a Great Britain star crew containing the likes of triple Olympic medallist Katherine Grainger... more

Jemma Lowe can cause a big stir at the London Olympics if she hits her best form, says mentor Bud McAllister. Lowe, 20, has been swimming well in training and, after qualifying in March for the Games over 200m butterfly, believes McAllister, the coach at Swansea's Intensive Training Centre, she can reach the final if she pulls out all the stops... more

Holyhead's Gareth Evans and Swansea's Natasha Perdue have had their dreams granted and will compete in the London Olympic Games next month. Both were waiting on tenterhooks, having only managed to lift the 'B' standard for selection to the British team... more