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THE OLD OUNDELIAN 2018 –2019
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SCHOOL NEWS
The sporting year
Lenore Dudman, the School’s Marketing Manager, looks back on the highlights of Oundle School sport in 2018/19
RECORD-BREAKERS
Four School records were broken on Sports Day on the new athletics track, when almost the whole School participated in at least one event. The record-breakers were U15 triple jumper Coleman Sham (Sc 3rd) with 10.76m, U17 300m runner Mathilda Somerville-Cotton (L 4th) with 42.40sec, U17 100m sprinter Archie Thorpe (L 5th) with 11.20sec and U20 100m sprinter Eldad Eradiri (N U6th) with 12.50sec.
POPULAR RUGBY
Record numbers signed up for girls’ rugby last season. Commendably led by Iris Cecil (W U6th) and Petra Glazebrook (Sn U6th), the girls began learning the principles of rugby in the cold winter months of November and December, before facing stiff opposition in matches in the Lent Term.
HOCKEY FINALISTS
The U16 girls’ hockey team did exceptionally well to reach the Tier 2 National Finals at the Olympic Park in London.
ROWING TROPHIES
House indoor rowing trophies were awarded for the first time since the 1980s, with international rower Kristina Cowley (L 13) doing the honours. Over 700 enthusiastic
pupils took part in the competition, which was run by British Rowing using 30 machines.
CAPTAIN GORDON
Gordon Lin (C U6th) set a superb example as boys’ tennis captain in his fifth season training in the senior squad and his fourth representing the 1st VI.
CRICKET NUMBERS
Over 350 pupils and 28 teams from First to Sixth Form played cricket last summer. Three girls’ teams were fielded, after 50 chose cricket as their summer sport.
SUPER SIENNA
Sienna Rushton (Sn L6th) was again selected to represent England at U19 level at netball. She also played for the VNSL Wasps franchise in both U19 and U21 age groups, with her contribution to the U21 squad helping the Coventry side to the league title and an unbeaten season.
SQUASH SUCCESS
James Simpson-Dent (Sc L6th) and Tom Baker-Cresswell (Ldr U6th) respectively led the School’s Michaelmas Term and Lent Term squash teams to six victories each. The Carol Abbott Trophy for the most improved player went to Ella Foreman (W U6th).
COUNTY CHAMPIONS
In badminton, Daphne Ngan (N 4th), Pearl Potluri (Sn 3rd), Season Fung (By 2nd), Unne Fung (By 2nd) and Khayali Kanabar (Sc 2nd) triumphed in the county competition, before acquitting themselves exceptionally well in the regional finals.
Gordon Lin
Sienna Rushton
PRIZE WINNERS
Freya Neame (W L6th) and Oscar Salvesen (Ldr U6th) were recipients of the Fisher Brothers Prizes as winners of the whole School cross- country races. Archie Parkinson (L 5th) won the intermediate and senior races.
SWIMMING RECORDS
Twenty-five new School records were set in swimming, with Melvyn Richards (C 3rd) achieving five and Austin Shum (By 1st) seven.
Daphne Ngan