WELSHPOOL Town Under 15s football team can look forward to receiving a new kit courtesy of Mid Wales Sign and Print.

A competition was organised by the Welshpool-based company with Welshpool U15 the lucky winners.

Wales athletics star Adele Nicoll from Welshpool did the draw and pulled out the card with the lucky winning entry.

Gary Williams, director at MWS&P said: “We are extremely grateful to Adele for taking time out of her busy schedule to choose a winner and we congratulate Welshpool Town FC U15 on being the winner of the new team kit, which is part of the new sportswear range offered by the company."

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Junior football returns this weekend after being cancelled last week as a sign of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday.

Nicoll has enjoyed a stellar year which has included being included in the British bobsleigh team for the Winter Olympics in China before achieving her lifelong dream of representing Wales at the summer Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

She has won multiple Welsh Athletics Championships events, and won the shot put event at the 2022 British Athletics Championships.

However the Birmingham based 25 year old has never forgotten her roots having emerged as a talented athlete at Welshpool High School and Oswestry Olympians Athletics Club before progressing to university in Cardiff where she studied clinical neuroscience at Cardiff Metropolitan University.

Nicoll has not been the only Commonwealth Games star to visit home this week with swimmer Dan Jones returning to Buttington/Trewern School to talk to pupils.

Jones was among the stars of the summer games in Birmingham and helped Wales impress in the pool but missed out on a medal.