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HIGHCLARE’ RUN OF SUCCESS

March 2010

ISA Netball teams with their winning medals

Girls at Highclare School, The Abbey, both Juniors and Seniors, have had a tremendous run of sporting success over the last few weeks. This started on 3rd February at the Independent School’s Association Regional Cross Country meeting at Bedstone School. From an entry of 15 schools Highclare’s teams at U12 and U14 came 5th, at U18 came 3rd and at U16 came 1st overall. 9 individual girls were in the top 10 selected to represent the Midlands Region in the National finals.

Success did not stop there. At the National final held at Princethorpe School on 26th February some amazing individual performances saw Niamh O’Dowd and Lydia Sergiew gaining 6th places and Georgia Batchelor a 7th, strongly supported by Bethany Roberts, 19th and Emily Smith 19th, helping the Midlands team to a worthy Runner up position. There were 70 runners in all on the day.

Along side this Highclare School came home with the runners-up trophy at the Sutton Schools Junior Swimming Gala on 27th February. This was achieved with 3 first places from Aman Hayre, Alice Johnson and Ella Feaunati, and 2 third places from Georgia Batchelor and Pheobe Abbott.

The run of success was established further this weekend (6th March) when the girls took part in the Independent School’s Association Regional Netball Tournament at Shifnall, with the U16 team gaining runner up position and the U14 team taking the Winners podium.

Additionally the U13 Hockey team remain unbeaten in the league so far, with only two more matches to play, so all are hopeful of further success.

Under 16 winning team at Bedstone

 

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HIGHCLARE SPORTS SUCCESSES

2008 / 2009

NETBALL

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
• U13 Team 2nd place at Regional Tournament

HOCKEY

BIRMINGHAM SCHOOLS
• U15 team placed 4th in North Birmingham League
• U13 team placed 3rd in North Birmingham League
• 2 players selected for U17 West Midlands county team

CROSS – COUNTRY

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
• U12 Girls team 2nd at Bedstone
• U12 Boys team 1st at Bedstone
• U14 team 1st at Bedstone
• U16 team 2nd at Bedstone
• U18 team 1st at Bedstone
• Total of 10 girls and 4 boys selected to run at Nationals representing the Midlands team. (1 silver medal – Amy Johnson)

SUTTON SCHOOLS
• Junior Girls team placed 1st in the Sutton Schools league
• Junior Boys team placed 6th in Sutton Schools League
• Combined Junior Girls & Boys team placed 3rd in the Sutton Schools League
• Junior Girls team placed 1st at Sutton Schools Championships
• Year 7 team 3rd at the Sutton Schools Championships
• Year 8/9 team 2nd at Sutton Schools Championships
• Senior team placed 1st at Sutton Schools Championships

SWIMMING

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
• Junior Girls team runners up overall (21 schools)
• Junior Boys team runners up
• Year 6 Girls team winners.
• Year 5 Boys team winners
• Senior team overall winners (14 schools)
• Year 8 team winners, Year 9/10 team winners, Year 11 team Runners up.
• 6 girls selected to represent the Midlands at the ISA Nationals, where they collected 6 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze medals, 4 new national records and 3 “Best Individual Performers” trophies.
• 3 boys selected to represent the Midlands

SUTTON SCHOOLS
• Junior girls team winners of Large Schools Championship Trophy
• Junior girls team relay winners trophy
• Junior boys team 3rd overall

ATHLETICS

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (15 senior & 27 junior schools)
• Year 4 girls Team 7th
• Year 4 boys Team 7th
• Year 5 girls Team 8th
• Year 5 boys Team 1st
• Year 6 girls Team 2nd
• Year 6 boys Team 4th
• Year 7 Team 5th
• Year 8/9 Team 1st
• Year 10 Team 4th
• Senior team (Yr 7 –10) declared 4th overall
• Junior team (Yr 4-6 ) declared Runners up
• 4 senior girls selected to represent the Midlands at the ISA Nationals, where between them they collected a total of 5 medals. (4 golds , 1 bronze)
• 3 junior boys selected to represent the Midlands

SUTTON SCHOOLS
• Year 10/11 Championships – Runners up
• Year 9 Team – Runners up
• Year 8 Team - Runners up
• Year 7 Team – 5th
• 4 athletes selected to represent North Birmingham
• 3 athlete selected to represent West Midlands