Under 12’s net minder James Whiting did a great job between the pipes last season for the under 12's and he played a key role in helping his team gain promotion back into the A League for this season.

But always looking to develop and improve on his skills James attended the GB goaltending camp over the summer months.

James has attend the camp before but this year he excelled himself and impressed his coaches so much so that he received great praise from top net minder Joe Watkins, who runs the camp and was deservedly named net minder of the camp.

So impressed was Joe with our young Dragon that gave also him a glowing report.

James is a very good young goalie. He has great ability and awareness in the net for such a young goalie. He always listens and works very hard and this means that James will no doubt just continue to get better. It is great to see his love of the game and his desire to be the best he can be,

Joe Watkins

James said he had a great time mixing with other net minders aged between 8-18, even though they all had early starts having to get up at 5.30am to be on ice at 6.30am.

James went on to say “I learnt a lot from Joe, he was a very good coach and he has helped me to improve on the skills that I already know and helped me to develop new ones. It was the best feeling being named net minder of the camp because there were such a lot of good net minders there and older ones too not just my age group and it made all the hard work and early starts worthwhile”.

Well done James you’ve made your parents and the club very proud, keep up the good work!!

You can see James and his Dragon team mates in action on the 29th Sept 07 when they take on Guildford here in Cardiff Bay for their first home game of the season, Face Off 4.15pm.