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great tennis, playing lots and working with our coaches. Our star player was Victoria Manske (No.8) who competed in the Smyth Cup County Competition and took on the local top players, achieving third place.
The Senior Boys have similarly displayed some very high-level tennis, with Justus Piepenbrock (No.2), Ernest Janssen De La Boessiere-Thiennes (SH), Harry Marriott (No.9) and Jean Michiels (No.5) leading the way in some close matches. Felix Jack (SH), Lorenz Hatlapa (No.5) and Charlie Warburton (No.5) also competed in the Scott Cup County Competition, with Charlie and Lorenz reaching the quarter finals.
It has been great to see the pupils working on their tennis this term, whatever their level, with lots of good-spirited matches and fun on the school tennis courts.
Lee Hilton | Director of Sport
Squash
We held our first squash session with The Downs Malvern this term, with children from Years 6 to 8 coming over to use the Malvern College facilities. Our excellent coach, Will Vanston (OM), ran a great introductory session and they all had a fantastic time. We look forward to running these sessions again in the Autumn term for more age-groups.
Inter-House Athletics
The sun wasn’t shining, but our pupils still put on a show at the Inter-House Athletics Championships. There were brilliant individual performances, some very tight races and moments of fantastic sportsmanship on display.
The Seniors were in record-breaking mood, setting three new all-time best performances. Ethan Opini (No.9) and Maggie Badenhorst (No.6) broke records in the hurdle events, whilst Brandon Zhu (No.9) set a new discus record in his first year as a Senior. Overall, House No.4 and House No.2 were too strong on the day, comfortably winning the girls’ and boys’ competitions respectively.
Our Junior competitions were very entertaining, with both boys’ and girls’ events coming down to the last race of the day - the 4x100m relay!
In the girls’ event, House No.6 were one point ahead of House No.3 before the relay and a very strong House No.6 relay team secured the win. Congratulations also to Georgia Clements (No.3) for setting a new all-time Junior Girls’ record in the 300m.
The Junior boys’ competition was even closer; School House won the relay to put themselves top of the leaderboard, one point ahead of House No.7 and only two points ahead of third-place House No.1.
Well done to all pupils for putting on a great afternoon of athletics!
Winning Houses:
Senior Boys - House No.2 Senior Girls - House No.4 Junior Boys - School House Junior Girls - House No.6
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Sean McGregor | Head of Football