{"id":1589,"date":"2023-08-04T13:02:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T13:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.ty-hafan.spindogs-dev7.co.uk\/cy\/2023\/08\/07\/a-life-changing-weekend-for-ty-hafans-all-stars\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T20:33:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:33:06","slug":"a-life-changing-weekend-for-ty-hafans-all-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.ty-hafan.spindogs-dev7.co.uk\/cy\/2023\/08\/04\/a-life-changing-weekend-for-ty-hafans-all-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Penwythnos a newidiodd fywydau i All Stars T\u0177 Hafan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gwnaeth penwythnos diwethaf newid bywydau i d\u00eem hoci ia All Stars T\u0177 Hafan mewn mwy nag un ffordd wrth iddyn nhw gymryd rhan yn y twrnamaint elusennol blynyddol yn arena ia Vindico yng Nghaerdydd.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Dreams Come True team member Craig Poynter collapsed on the ice mid-match on Saturday afternoon, T\u0177 Hafan\u2019s Rick Strang led a group of fellow players to perform life-saving CPR on the father-of-two.<\/p>\n

Emergency Care Nurse\/Consultant Rick, pictured above right, who works in A&E in King\u2019s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, led fellow nurse Jordan Phipps, playing for British Heart Foundation, GP trainee Mike McCrudden, team T\u0177 Hafan, and police sergeant Andy May playing for Breast Cancer Cymru, to perform CPR on 38-year-old Craig on the rink itself.<\/p>\n

Following a successful resuscitation, including the use of the defibrillator to shock Craig, he was on his way with the Helimed team within 11 minutes of his cardiac arrest. He was taken to University Hospital of Wales cardiac centre for life-saving heart surgery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was happy to help\u201d said Rick, \u201cin what was a very scary and serious situation for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFortunately we are trained for this although being on an ice rink in full ice hockey gear was a bit different! It was a great team effort with a fantastic outcome. I\u2019d urge everyone to learn simple CPR and know where your local defibrillator is in case it\u2019s needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Craig, pictured below with his two sons at home in Nottingham after being discharged from hospital, has since made a full recovery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The weekend was also life-changing for Caerphilly\u2019s Chris Thomas, pictured above left with Rick Strang. For Chris not only joined the T\u0177 Hafan team for his All Stars debut – but it was his first ever hockey match too!<\/a><\/p>\n

A devoted Cardiff Devils fan, Chris played in memory of his daughter Scarlett who died in September 2018 at the age of just four. Scarlett, who was diagnosed with a chromosomal condition so rare it didn\u2019t have a name and was cared for by T\u0177 Hafan, was the team\u2019s mascot before she passed away. She is pictured below with Claire and Chris and members of the T\u0177 Hafan All Stars at a previous year’s tournament.<\/p>\n

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Chris\u2019s partner Clair Partridge was there to cheer him on during Saturday and Sunday, as he took part wearing the team jersey with Scarlett\u2019s badge over his heart.<\/p>\n

And on Sunday afternoon after the tournament concluded the couple were joined by Rosea Poynter, Craig\u2019s wife, to present the life-saving group with the event\u2019s first ever Scarlett Cup, in recognition of their actions.<\/p>\n

As to the outcome of the UK Charity All Stars tournament itself, eight teams took part, including Help for Heroes, Dreams Come True, British Heart Foundation and MIND, with the Barbarians the eventual winners.<\/p>\n

T\u0177 Hafan\u2019s All Stars have been playing in the tournament since 2016 and have raised more than \u00a375,000 for charity since then. This year T\u0177 Hafan\u2019s 18 players raised just under an incredible \u00a319,000 \u2013 and came fourth overall.<\/p>\n

Helen Morgan, senior community fundraiser for T\u0177 Hafan, said: \u201cWe are so grateful to the team for their continued support for our charity, raising thousands of pounds for us year after year!<\/p>\n

\u201cLots of T\u0177 Hafan families received guest tickets to attend the matches and there was a great turn-out to support the team, who ended up in fourth position. Staff and volunteers were also there to cheer them on! It was a huge pleasure to join the crowd in cheering the teams on over the weekend \u2013 we were all so proud of our T\u0177 Hafan team and congratulations to the Barbarians team who won the tournament this year!\u201d<\/p>\n

Captain of T\u0177 Hafan\u2019s team and a Trustee of the charity, James Pepper, said: \u201cThe team has been fantastic this year and really thought outside of the box to raise as much money as they can for T\u0177 Hafan.\u201d<\/p>\n

The T\u0177 Hafan All Stars 2023 team, pictured below, are now already planning for next year\u2019s tournament!<\/p>\n

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Gwnaeth penwythnos diwethaf newid bywydau i d\u00eem hoci ia All Stars T\u0177 Hafan mewn mwy nag un ffordd wrth iddyn nhw gymryd rhan yn y twrnamaint elusennol blynyddol yn arena ia Vindico yng Nghaerdydd.\u00a0\u00a0 When Dreams Come True team member…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340,"featured_media":1596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyhoeddiadau","category-dan-sylw"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ty-hafan.spindogs-dev7.co.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ty-hafan.spindogs-dev7.co.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ty-hafan.spindogs-dev7.co.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ty-hafan.spindogs-dev7.co.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ty-hafan.spindogs-dev7.co.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ty-hafan.spindogs-dev7.co.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ty-hafan.spindogs-dev7.co.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ty-hafan.spindogs-dev7.co.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ty-hafan.spindogs-dev7.co.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ty-hafan.spindogs-dev7.co.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ty-hafan.spindogs-dev7.co.uk\/cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}