College lecturer, Dawn Watkins, is to manage the Great Britain Tentpegging team in the World Cup competition for the third time.

She leads the team, heading for Sudan from January 19th to 24th, hoping to get a place in the World Tentpegging Championship in March.

The international competition is to be broadcast around the world by the Blue Nile TV website.

Dawn, who is Equine Course Co-ordinator, Lecturer and Learning Coach for Norton Radstock College, said: "We are hoping to come back with a Gold, last year we achieved a Bronze for team sword and a Pairs Bronze and in our first year, a Silver for team lance.

"It's a really exciting event and we are competing against teams from literally around the world, from South Africa to Pakistan and from Norway to Egypt."

The team's progress is followed by the college's equine students who split their study between the classroom at the college's Keynsham Centre in the grounds of Broadlands School and practical work at HorseWorld in Bristol.

This year's GB team will be Captained by Bristol's Jerry Watkins, who is Dawn's husband and manager of HorseWorld, and also include Peter Turland, Rachel Imber and Gerald Nott.

Tentpegging involves galloping in a straight line with a sword or lance and hitting a range of small targets – usually wooden tent pegs.