Page 11 - Millfield GSG Brochure 2021

WHAT THE GOOD
SCHOOLS GUIDE SAYS

SPORT
It’s difficult to know where to start. This is
unquestionably the place for your
budding Olympian and the fact that it has
produced so many top flight athletes and
sportspeople is no accident. During the
2021 Guinness Six Nations rugby
championships the school had a
representative in every home nation
squad – Mako Vunipola (England), Huw
Jones (Scotland), Callum Sheedy (Wales)
and Rhys Ruddock (Ireland).

Both provision and facilities abound, from
the famous 50m Olympic swimming pool
with all the wizardry and coaches
associated with training future national
champions to the acquisition of a
Swingulator that enables rowers to train
all year round. It is typical of the Millfield
seriousness of purpose that, having only
introduced rowing a few years ago,
investment in a year-round programme
including nutrition, video analysis and
diverse training has resulted in the school
beating many established rowing schools
and even universities.

Whatever Millfield does – and it does
almost everything – it does exceptionally
well, devoting considerable sums, land
and care in recruiting top coaches to its
unequalled sporting offer. We could wax
lyrical about the provision for riders,
comprising a polo ground, cross-country
course and gallops, or about the fencing
salle, but the more usual school sports
are outstandingly provided for too. The
school’s level of commitment is matched
by that of the students – for example, a
daily 5.40am reveille is quite common for
élite swimmers.