The CRL squad will participate in three events in January including the NSW Rugby League Camp at Narrabeen which six boys have been selected to attend: Peter Adams (Collarenebri), Travis Brazier (Collarenebri), Ian Hammond (Brewarrina), Khaleb Binge (Bourke), Jacob McKenna (Bourke) and Adam Stanford (Nyngan). Coaches this weekend will select another four athletes from the squad to attend an intensive training week at NRL clubs with their junior development squads. Selections will also be made for the CRL Development squad. This squad will travel to Cessnock at the end of January to compete in a carnival with the Hunter Academy Newcastle Knights development program.

The netball girls get their final chance at the selection trials this weekend. Girls aged 14 to 18 years are welcome to attend and try out for the 2010 program. January will be a busy time for some members of the FWAS netball squad; Corrine Towney (Coonabarabran), Sam Gordon (Brewarrina) and Chloe Whighton (Gilgandra) following their selection to attend the Australian Schoolgirls Indigenous Netball Carnival in Brisbane. Walgett athlete Latoya Sands has also been selected. FWAS coaches Janet Mason and Katrina Hausia will accompany the girls to Queensland from January 14 to 17, coaching the Opens and 15s teams respectively.

The FWAS football squad is expanding a partnership with the University of NSW and travelling to Sydney from January 13-18 to participate in a five-day live-in camp. They will join the UNSW junior squad and the Sudanese seven-a-side squad who are preparing for an international youth tournament later in the year. As part of this tour, the 16 players and four staff will attend a Sydney FC game on Sunday afternoon at the Sydney Football Stadium.

In golf the full squad is travelling to Sydney from January 10-15 on their annual ‘bush to city’ tour with the Jack Newton Junior Golf Foundation. This year, program coordinator Sharon Nott has put together a fine program including a round of golf on the Australian Open venue NSW Golf Club, a tournament at Ashlar golf club, practice at St Michaels Golf Club, and a day of sightseeing in the city.