Referee Ray recognised for his volleyball passion

Brougton Astley man Ray Capewell, at Horse Guards Parade during the London Olympics.

Published on 14/10/2012 07:54

A VOLLEYBALL referee who has been involved in his sport for almost four decades and who helped at the London Olympics has been applauded for his outstanding sporting achievements.

Ray Capewell (73), from Broughton Astley, has been given an award by Leicestershire and Rutland Sport, sponsored by Imago, to celebrate the achievements of senior sports people, volunteers and physical activity participants from across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.

The awards honoured more than 2,400 years of physical activity and sporting participation completed by 33 nominated active older people from across the county and city.

Ray began his path to becoming a volleyball referee 37 years ago playing the national men’s leagues, He then retired from volleyball and took up coaching, working with the Leicester Sound ladies team.

He later became one of the first ever beach volleyball referees in the UK.

At 73, Ray has been working as Beach Volleyball Technical Official Group Leader, training and developing the scorers and lines people for the London 2012 Olympics for the past four years.

In April this year he received a long service award for his services to the development of Beach and Indoor Volleyball, at the end of season Volleyball Conference and Dinner.

Harborough District Councillor Blake Pain said: “It is great to have an individual like Ray living in the district.

“The time, energy and passion Ray has given to his sport is commendable and has been recognised through various awards.

“There are lots of opportunities for anyone to get involved in sports, like Ray, through volunteering or coaching.

“If anyone would like to know more about how they can get involved we would urge them to contact the Leisure team at Harborough District Council.”

To find out more about the Oldest Athlete Awards contact Marianne Boyle on 01858 828282 or m.boyle@harborough.gov.uk.

News

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Referee Ray recognised for his volleyball passion

Top stories

News