Due to demand, coaching sessions for girls were started in the summer of 2009 at Deepdale school.
Due to its success, this will be repeated again in 2010, with a view to arrange a competition for those taking part.
The club entered the UCLan mid week 8-a-side league at the University cricket ground.
The club performed well and finished mid table. The club is looking to build on this by organising pre season training.
Once again the successful primary schools coaching programme was organised and involved eight primary schools.
Following the coaching sessions, a tournament was held at Preston Cricket Club.
Due a clash with other events, the number of schools entering was limited, but an exciting final was played by the two previous winners of the Red Rose Cup.
Deepdale school looked in control with the last two batters for St. Ignatius needing over 10 runs in the final over. With one ball to go, the scores were level and St.Ignatius held their nerve to get the winning runs off the last ball.
The win meant that St.Ignatius have won the cup two out of the three times that it has been contested.
Following on from the successful schools tournament in 2005, another series of coaching sessions were held at 10 schools in conjunction with the Lancashire Cricket Board.
After the coaching sessions, a one day tournament was held on 5th June at Preston Cricket Club. The day was full of sunshine and over 80 young people took part in the event.
The results were as follows:
| Group A | Score |
| Deepdale v St.Ignatius | 252 – 241 |
| Ribbleton v St.Stephen’s | 233 – 223 |
| Deepdale v Ribbleton | 242 – 221 |
| St.Ignatius v St.Stephen’s | 235 – 191 |
| Deepdale v St.Stephen’s | 261 – 209 |
| St.Ignatius v Ribbleton | 241 – 232 |
| Group B | Score |
| St.Mathew’s v Greenland | 247 – 201 |
| Frenchwood v St.Joseph’s | 258 – 220 |
| St.Mathew’s v Frenchwood | 258 – 239 |
| Greenlands v St.Joseph’s | 237 – 229 |
| St.Mathew’s v St.Joseph’s | 253 – 194 |
| Greenlands v Frenchwood | 206 – 218 |
| 3rd/4th Place Play-off | Result |
| St.Ignatius v Frenchwood | St.Ignatius won |
| Final | Result |
| Deepdale v St.Mathew’s | Deepdale won |
The final proved to be a nail biting affair with Deepdale winning by 1 run. Special guest Anis Faruki presented the Trophies and medals to the successful teams.
Once again, the regular coaching over summer was organised at Moor Park. Regular attenders as well as new players attended.
In partnership with the Lancashire School Sports Partnership, Red Rose Sports club embarked on an ambitious programme involving 10 schools in Preston. With support from Lancashire Cricket Board, each school received up to six coaching sessions from qualified cricket coaches.
The schools participating in the programme were:
Primary Schools
Secondary Schools
The culmination of the coaching was a Kwik Cricket tournament involving all the schools involved in the Primary schools programme, which resulted in the following:
| Group A | Score |
| Greenlands v Moor Nook | 246 – 219 |
| St.Theresa’s v Ribbleton | 234 – 239 |
| Greenlands v St.Theresa’s | 228 – 226 |
| Ribbleton v Moor Nook | 265 – 260 |
| Greenlands v Ribbleton | Greenlands Win |
Winner of Group A: Greenlands
Runner up of Group A: Ribbleton
| Group B | Score |
| St. Ignatius v Frenchwood | 268 – 227 |
| St. Ignatius v Lea | 235 – 208 |
| Frenchwood v Lea | 212 – 242 |
Winner of Group B: St. Ignatius
Runner up of Group B: Lea
| 3rd/4th Place Play-off | Result |
| Ribbleton v Lea | Ribbleton (3rd) / Lea (4th) |
| Final | Result |
| St. Ignatius v Greenlands | St. Ignatius win |
The two secondary schools took part in a match against each other.
All the tournament matches were played at Preston Cricket club.
Overall over 100 young people participated in the programme, which was a resounding success.
With support from the Millenium award(administered by Preston City Council), the Club supported five young people to develop their personal skills through cricket.
The five participants completed training on the following;
The participants received coaching and support from coaches from Lancashire cricket club. The programme culminated in three participants taking part in the Lancashire under 17s and u/19s trials. All performed well, with one participant being selected for Lancashire under 17s.
Coaching took place again at Moor Park, with over twenty participants taking part. The coaching sessions focused on batting,bowling and fielding skills.
The coaching sessions finished with a single / doubles tournament amongst the participants, with medals awarded to all participants for achievement over the summer.
Building on the success of the previous year, a more extended programme resulted in the club entering two teams in the under 11s, two teams in the under 13s and one team in the under 15s.
All the teams performed well, but in particular the under 11s team, who finished runners-up and the under 15s team, who put up a good performance against Fulwood & Broughton in the final, narrowly missing out on a chance to represent Preston in the Lancashire finals.
The success of the teams does not show the fact that many of the players did not play for recognized clubs and for some it was the first competitive cricket they were playing in.
Following on from the indoor success, coaching sessions were organized at Moor park cricket pitches, where over twenty-five young people took part over the summer.
The sessions were finished with all participants taking the Kwik Cricket skills awards and all participants gained either a bronze or silver award.