{"id":1374,"date":"2019-01-14T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T09:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2019-07-15T14:12:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:12:02","slug":"mollie-selected-for-england-rounders-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/mollie-selected-for-england-rounders-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Mollie Selected for England Rounders Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mollie_rounders.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mollie_rounders.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mollie_rounders-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><figcaption>Mollie pictured in her England rounders kit<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>2019 is set to be an exciting year for Bridgnorth Endowed School Year 11 student, Mollie Penny, who has been selected, along with just 15 other players, for the England Under 16 Rounders Team.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PE teacher, Mrs Bills-Brown, spotted her talent back in 2016 and suggested she went for trials. The rest, as they say, is history as Mollie is now embarking on her third season with the national team.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s training gets underway in February, with a weekend bootcamp in Sheffield to prepare the girls for the season ahead. The team is due to play a number of the country&#8217;s top independent schools and will face Wales in an international match early this summer.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An all-round sportswoman, Mollie also plays netball and has represented Shropshire in county cricket since the age of ten, recently being picked again for the U17s.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPlaying cricket for so long definitely helped me to do well in rounders and get into the national squad,\u201d Mollie comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI love playing for England as it\u2019s a really friendly team and everyone\u2019s so supportive, always cheering your name when you step into the batting area.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the back of her success, Mollie has accepted a place on the Elite Sports Pathway at Loughborough College and will start a Public and Uniformed Services Course in September.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the future, she has ambitious plans to either join the Royal Navy or have a career in British Intelligence with MI5 or MI6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 is set to be an exciting year for Bridgnorth Endowed School Year 11 student, Mollie Penny, who has been selected, along with just 15 other players, for the England Under 16 Rounders Team. PE teacher, Mrs Bills-Brown, spotted her talent back in 2016 and suggested she went for trials. The rest, as they say, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/mollie-selected-for-england-rounders-team\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mollie Selected for England Rounders Team&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[2,16],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}