Lola Billing from Studley Cricket Club has been highly commended as a Rising Star by the ECB in the National Cricket Collective Awards for 2023.
Lola was an outstanding nomination from Studley CC and is a role model for youngsters across the game in how to help develop their club. This article goes into more detail around the fantastic impact Lola had on Studley CC this year!
A huge congratulations to Lola from all of us at the Warwickshire Cricket Foundation.
Lola Billing
Lola is a wonderful young lady. She has been helping around the club for around the last 2 seasons now. She is an inspiration and will lend a hand to anything. Last season Lola was one of only 2 girls playing cricket for us. She convinced us to try to get a girls’ team together for her to play in.
She worked hard over the winter recruiting lots of her friends from school and inspiring a lot of the female siblings of the boys to start cricket. She came up with the name for the team “The Studley Stars” and now we have a fully functioning girls’ section with 2 brand new female coaches. 14 girls all U11 playing and training every week and it’s all down to her enthusiasm.
She is extremely welcoming to anyone new to the club and ensures everyone is looked after. We are so proud of her. As well as that she helps out all the time. She takes the register for All Stars, helps her dad take the orders for the club BBQs, helps set up all the All Stars equipment, and tidies up. In fact she doesn’t stop.
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