Sports Department Year in Review 2018-2019
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Issue 2 Sports Department Year in Review 2018-2019 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Message from Mr Dowson 2 Top Performers 2 Cross Country 4 Athletics 10 Swimming 15 Triathlon 21 Equestrian 22 Rugby 23 Netball 24 Sailing 25 Volunteering 26 CHS Park Run Take Over 27 Sports Day 28 Sports Prize Winners 35 External Club Successes 37 Sports Visitors 38 Life After CHS 39 1 MESSAGE FROM MR DOWSON I hope you will enjoy reading about a very successful year for us in sport. Our teams and individuals have travelled the country taking part in a variety of fixtures and competitions, with great success. We have had tournaments and events in a wide range of sports from Sailing to Cross Country, and from Equestrian to Triathlon, it is all featured. I am so happy about the ethos of the school, where everyone pulls together for events like the junior park run, our senior charity sports events and sport days. Parents, pupils and staff join together to show that sport should be fun and for everyone. It is a pleasure to teach at the school and I hope that you will reflect on our achievements this year with great pride. I look forward to seeing where the journey will take us next year and whether our numerous national champions can retain their titles. Congratulations to everyone mentioned and I hope that 2019-2020 will prove to be every bit as successful as our last year in sport. CHS TOP PERFORMING TEAMS 2018—19 NEESSA District Cross Country champions in Year 10/11 boys National ISA U-10’s Touch Rugby champions CBSSP District Year 9 boys Senior Swimming champions Year 7, 8, 9 & 10 Mersea Island Rugby Sevens runners up in all four age groups to Colchester Royal Grammar School Year 9 Colchester District Rugby Union runners up to the Gilberd School ISA EAST Boys and Combined Senior Swimming runners up ISA EAST Boys Overall Cross Country Champions U-9 Roman Cup Squash (Colchester & District tournament) – 3rd place (In first year of competing) CBSSP Year 5 & 6 High Fives Netball runners up – Level 2 competition 2 CHS TOP PERFORMERS 2018—19 ISA National Sailing Championships Runner up: Osea. Third place: Ruby ISA National Triathlon 7th: Phoebe (Year 5 against Year 5 & 6) ISA East Swimming Championships Nikitas, Suri, Joshua, Georgia, George, William & Oliver ISA National champion in Swimming Year 4 50m Breaststroke: Nikitas Year 9 & 10 50m Butterfly & 200m Individual Medley: William English Schools Championships & Arena National League ‘B’ final in Swimming: William NEESSA District Cross Country 1st: Kayleigh, 1st: Kiera and 2nd James Essex Schools Cross Country Kayleigh (1st – Year 7 girls), Kiera (1st - Year 8/9 girls), Georgia (51st – Year 8/9 girls), Elsa (58th – Year 8/9 girls), James (23rd – Year 8/9 boys), Chris Smith (37th – Year 10/11 boys) and Cameron (45th – Year 10 & 11 boys). National ISA Cross Country (Qualification by finishing in top 10 in ISA EAST race): Kiera (1st – Year 7/8 Girls), Kayleigh (3rd – Year 7/8 Girls) & James (7th – Year 7/8 boys). English Schools Cross Country Kiera (26th & 1st Year 8 girl to finish in Essex & SE) Essex Games Year 5 & 6 Cross Country (Qualification via top 3 finish in CBSSP event): Ayo Essex Schools Athletics Qualifiers (By virtue of their performance in the CBSSP Senior Athletics Championships) Kiera (1st – Year 8 1500m), James (1st – Year 8 800m) & Lily (2nd – Year 9 High Jump). Congratulations also to Kiera who was nominated as the ISA ‘Athlete of the Month’ for April 2019. 3 CROSS COUNTRY INTERHOUSE CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 Ever pupil from Year one to eleven took part in the Interhouse Cross Country Championship to earn important house points for their house and to prepare our best runners for the upcoming district cross country races. All of the pupils put in an amazing effort with the following pupils winning for their year group. Special congratulations go to our Year group winners Year Girls Boys 1 Isabella Stanley 2 Mae Ted 3 Abbie Jacob 4 Bella Logan 5 Phoebe Ayo 6 Suri Alex 7 Kayleigh Arthur 8 Kiera James 9 Georgia Max 10 Emma William 11 Kitti Chris The final house results were Prep Rabbits Juniors Saxons Seniors Normans 4 NEESA DISTRICT SENIOR CROSS COUNTRY Our pupils were all amazing at the North East Essex District (NEESA) Cross Country Championships on Tuesday 6th November. Every runner tried their very best with special congratulations going to our winners Kayleigh (Year 7 Girls) and Kiera (Year 8 and 9 Girls) and to James who came second in the Year 8 and 9 Boys category. Congratulations also go to Arthur (4th), Harry (9th), Georgia (6th), Elsa (8th), Chris (6th) and Cameron (9th) who all finished in the top 10. No mean feat against 18 much bigger state schools from the district. Every member of the team did their bit and tried to finish as high up as they could, many beating previous bests. Underlining this brilliant effort was the final overall scores: Year 7 boys – 4th place Year 8/9 girls – 3rd place Year 8/9 boys – 4th place Year 10/11 boys – 1st place – Amazing effort! 5 ESSEX SCHOOLS CROSS COUNTRY AT THE APEX Essex Schools Cross Country Congratulations to Kayleigh There was amazing stamina and determination shown by Kiera, Elsa, and Kiera who took part in Georgia, James, Chris and Cameron when they competed in the the Essex Schools Year 7 & annual Essex Schools Cross Country championships one day after the 8 Cross Country ISA Cross Country Championships. Competition on the 6th Kiera, rising to the challenge, defeated all of her opposition in the Year February. Kiera took first 8/9 race to finish Essex champion! No mean feat also as a Year 8 place and Kayleigh came a against Year 9’s. very close second. The James, in the same boat against boys a year older, also performed standard was incredibly high brilliantly coming home in a very respectable 23rd place. Georgia and so our girl’s truly excelled! Elsa also in the Year 8/9 race stayed close to each other and came in 51st and 58th. Chris was the second district runner home in 37th with Cameron not far behind in 45th. 6 CSSP YEAR 3 & 4 CROSS COUNTRY Congratulations to Ayo On Thursday 14th February our Year 3 & 4 cross country team who represented travelled to Colchester Rugby Club for the Colchester & Blackwater Colchester High School School Sports Partnership (CSSP) cross country. Against tough and the Colchester competition of over 100 runners in each race, our stars of the day Schools Sports were Niamh and Jacob. Both Niamh and Jacob finished in 5th place Partnership at the in the Year 3 girls and boys races respectively, a fantastic result. Essex Games Cross Our next best finishers were: Thomas (12th), Logan (28th) and Archie Country at Hadleigh (29th). Congratulations also go to the rest of the team: Abby, Sophia, Park. Ayo put in a Dhiara, James, David, Bella, Amelia, Alix, Sophie, Nikitas and superb effort in the Cameron. Year 5 race against over 100 of the best runners in the county. We are immensely proud of you for qualifying as our only representative this year. Well done Ayo. CSSP YEAR 5 & 6 CROSS COUNTRY On Wednesday 27th February our Year 5 & 6 cross country team travelled to Colchester Rugby Club for the Colchester & Blackwater School Sports Partnership (CSSP) cross country. Our stars of the day were Phoebe who was in the first race of the day and stayed in contention all the way round to finish in a brilliant 5th place and Ayo who came second by millimetres. Alex also had an excellent run finished 22nd with Noah and Sami (both 44th), Osea (46th) and Harry (49th) all within the top 50. Well done and thank you also to our other 7 7 runners. AMAZING PERFORMANCES AT THE ISA REGIONAL CROSS COUNTRY On Friday 18th January CHS travelled to the annual ISA Regional Cross Country Tournament. On offer for runners in the top 10 was a place in the ISA EAST team for the Nationals. Our pupils were on top form as we went on to claim 4 wins in 10 races. It was a simply stunning effort. Huge congratulations go to Kiera Winner Year 7/8 girls’ race James Winner Year 7/8 boys’ race William Winner Year 9/10 boys’ race Chris Winner Year 11/12/13 boys’ race The celebrations did not stop there with a number of pupils gaining a top 10 finish and a place in the ISA EAST team for the Nationals. Well done also to: Phoebe 8th - Year 5/6 girls, Ayo 3rd - Year 5/6 boys Kayleigh 2nd - Year 7/8 girls, Elsa 7th - Year 7/8 girls, Arthur 7th - Year 7/8 boys, Jamie 9th - Year 7/8 boys, th Harry 10 - Year 7/8 boys, Georgia 3rd - Year 9/10 girls, Arthur 5th - Year 9/10 boys, Alex 10th - Year 9/10 boys, Cameron 3rd - Year 11/12/13 boys, Colby 4th - Year 11/12/13 boys and Daniel 10th - Year 11/12/13 boys. That’s an incredible grand total of 17 pupils from CHS that qualified 8 8 for the Nationals! Congratulations to all of the team, who all worked so hard for our school. AMAZING PERFORMANCES AT THE ISA NATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY On Saturday 30th March our top cross-country runners travelled with us to the ISA National Cross Country Tournament. Congratulations must go to Kiera, who after a number of years of cancelled races, finally claimed her first ISA National Cross-Country title.