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SPORTS NEWS: AN EXTREMELY BUSY WEEK! February 2009

BEDSTONE CROSS COUNTRY

Our best performance ever at this regional cross country event. Highclare won 3 of the 5 events and came runners up in the remaining 2 by a mere 2 points! 14 individual runners were selected to represent the Midlands at the Nationals held at Princethorpe College 3 days later.

(*denotes qualifiers for Nationals. Approx 60/70 runners per event).

Junior Girls (U12)

1st Salterford House 82 points Sophia Shipley 1st—Gold Medal*

2nd Highclare 80 points Phoebe McClenaghan 6th*

3rd Bedstone 113 points Charlotte Smith 11th

Georgia Batchelor 14th

Eleanor Williams 16th

Catherine Eksteen 34th

Sophia Carless 36th

U14 Girls (Years 7/8)

1st Highclare 65 points Lydia Sergiew 1st—Gold Medal*

2nd Princethorpe 174 points Lauren Henderson 3rd—Bronze Medal*

3rd Northampton Grammar 187 points Bethany Roberts 7th*

Emily Smith 10th*

Mia Griffiths 17th

Jessica Wilson 27th

Sophie Kay 57th

Natassja Longstaff 61st

U16 Girls (Years 9/10)

1st Stafford Grammar 159 points Niamh O’Dowd 8th*

2nd Highclare 161 points Lucy Davies 25th

3rd Bedstone 183 points Symone Merrick 28th

Laura Kenny 29th

Alison Hunt 35th

Nimah Conway-O’Carroll 36th

Natasha Forrester 39th

U18 Girls (Years 11, 12 & 13)

1st Highclare 20 points Amy Johnson 1st—Gold Medal*

2nd Bedstone 35 points Naryman Ahmed 3rd—Bronze Medal*

3rd Northampton Grammar 48 points Liberty Duignan 5th*

Philippa Robinson 11th

Congratulations to all runners. Every place counts in the team events and every runner pushed themselves to their maximum in order to produce these outstanding results.

NATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY PRINCETHORPE COLLEGE

All 14 runners were able to compete this year and performed extremely well, despite still recovering from Bedstone 3 days

previously. There were 7 regions competing at this National event with 10 runners per region.

Sophia Shipley (Yr 6) 7th (Certificate)

Phoebe McClenaghan (Yr6) 41st

Lydia Sergiew (Yr 8) 9th (certificate)

Lauren Henderson (Yr 8) 17th

Bethany Roberts (Yr 8) 21st

Niamh O’Dowd (Yr 10) 26th

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Highclare’s Stunning Summer Athletics Season - 2008

Summer Term 2008 has been a very successful season for Highclare’s athletes.

Taking part in the Junior Independent Schools Championships with 21 other schools Highlare were overall winners of the girls section while the boys were runners-up.

With 12 schools taking part in the Senior Independent Schools Championships the Highclare girls came a close 2nd and received the runners-up trophy.

13 pupils qualified for the Independent Schools ‘National’ Athletic Championships at The Alexander Stadium which resulted in gaining 13 individual medals for the Midland team.

Locally in Sutton Coldfield our senior team took part with the Sutton Schools at Wyndley with an excellent result.

The year 7 athletes were 1st as were year 8. Year 9 athletes were runners-up while year 10/11 were again winners. As a result Highclare became Sutton Coldfield champions by a wide margin.

highclare's 2007 national swimming champions

December 2007

6 Highclare girls won national honours by winning 15 gold and 1 silver medals between them at the ISA National Gala at Coventry recently. As part of the Midlands team the girls were also pleased to be runners up by only 1 point behind the London West team.

Yr 11 Hannah Sands - 2 Gold medals

Yr 10 Holly Lynch - 4 Gold medals

Yr 9 Katrina Holmes - 2 Gold medals

Yr 7 Kristie Hackett - 4 Gold medals

Yr 7 Katie Richardson - 2 Gold medals

Yr 5 Amy Potter - 1 Gold, 1 Silver medal

Yr 5 Charlotte Smith - Team member earning points for the midlands team

swimmers

HIGHCLARE ARE MIDLANDS SWIMMING CHAMPIONS - November 2007

Girls at Highclare’s Junior and Senior School had a fantastic week in the pool, competing at the Independent School’s Regional Gala.

Highclare Senior School clinched the overall title with Year 7 and the Year 9 /10 teams both receiving the year group Winners Trophy, supported by the Year 8 and Year 11 teams who claimed vital points to declare Highclare’ s Senior Swimming Squad, Independent Schools “Midlands Champions” by a margin of 58 points.

In a field of 20 schools, the Junior Girls continued the winning streak claiming the overall ‘Runners Up’ position, the Highclare Year 5 girls winning their year group trophy, Year 6’s finishing 3rd overall and the Year 4’s midtable.

Eight swimmers from both squads now go on to represent the Midlands at the ISA National event being held at Coventry on 17th November.

The standard of swimming was extremely high at both galas and Highclare put in some outstanding performances to claim their titles.

swimmers

Highclare School - SPORTS SUCCESSES 2006 / 2007

NETBALL

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS

U11 team 3rd place at National Tournament
U14 team Midlands semi-finalists
U16 team Midlands winners

HOCKEY

BIRMINGHAM SCHOOLS

U15 team placed 2nd in North Birmingham League

U13 team placed 5th in North Birmingham League

CROSS – COUNTRY

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS

U12 team 4th at Bedstone
U14 team 3rd at Bedstone
U16 team 3rd at Bedstone
U20 team 2nd at Bedstone
Total of 13 pupils selected to run at Nationals representing the Midlands team. (1 silver medallist and 6 top ten finishers)

SUTTON SCHOOLS

Junior team placed 2nd in the Sutton Schools league
Combined Junior Girls & Boys team placed 5th in the Sutton Schools League
Year 7 team 2nd at the Sutton Schools Race
Year 8/9 team winners in Sutton Schools Race
Senior team winners in Sutton Schools Race
Junior team placed 3rd at Sutton Schools Championships
Year 8/9 team winners at Sutton Schools Championships
Senior team placed 2nd at Sutton Schools Championships

SWIMMING

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS

Junior Girls’ team 3rd and Boys’ team 2nd overall, out of 20 schools
Year 6 team winners, Year 5 team 11th, Year 4 team 2nd
Senior team 2nd overall out of 10 schools
Year 7 team 6th, Year 8 team 1st, Year 9/10 team 1st
11 pupils selected to represent the Midlands at the ISA Nationals, where they collected 6 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals between them and helped Midlands to 3rd overall.

SUTTON SCHOOLS

Junior Girls’ team winners of Large Schools Championship Trophy and Junior Boys’ team runners up
Combined Girls and Boys Junior Team winners of relay trophy

Athletics

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (18 senior & 21 junior schools)

Year 4 Team 1st
Year 5 Team 6th
Year 6 Team 1st
Year 7 Team 7th
Year 8/9 Team 1st
Year 10 Team 4th
Senior team (Yr 7 –10) declared 3rd overall
Junior Girls’ team (Yr 4-6 ) declared 1st overall
Yr 6 Boys’ Relay 3rd overall
12 pupils selected to represent the Midlands at the ISA Nationals, where between them they collected a total of 7 medals.

SUTTON SCHOOLS