SPORTS REVIEW

U11A Rugby Team Harrison Cup victors

Hymers College @HymersSport:

It’s going to be a busy term for Inter-House competitions in the Senior School, and our Year 8 girls competed in Inter-House hockey! It was a lovely day with fiercely contested matches which went down to the last game, with Gore emerging victorious. Well played to all involved!

After an incredible performance just a week or so earlier at the HMC Rugby competition, at which the boys won the trophy for the first time in Hymers’ history, the team made their way across to QEGS Wakefield to participate in the Harrison Cup.

Going into the tournament with a good chance of success, the boys had a tricky start when two of the squad pulled out through illness, leaving us with just 10 players in a 9-a-side tournament. This would mean there would be some very tired legs! Nonetheless, they started fantastically with big performances.

Hymers College @HymersSport:

A huge well done to this term’s Junior Sports Award winners. It has been a fantastic term of sport for Hymers, packed with amazing progress and achievement. Well done to everyone for all their efforts!

Hymers College @HymersSport:

Hymers fencing team are pictured after their match against Mount St Mary’s. The match finished 4 wins to each school and provided great experience for the fencers from both teams. Thanks to Mr Blight for organising the event.

The final game against QEGS was predictably tense, but the suffocating pressure exerted by our defence kept QEGS pinned down in their own half for the duration and a solitary try was enough to make the difference.

Each and every player conducted themselves superbly all day, demonstrating all the core values of rugby throughout and showing some fantastic skill, pace and power. Consequently, Hymers lifted the Harrison Cup for the first time and rightly earned the plaudits of coaches and supporters alike.

Jenna heads to the mountains

Year 10 student, Jenna, travelled to the mountains in November to compete in slalom, giant slalom and super giant slalom skiing events.

She has also represented Hymers College, achieving a silver medal for U16 and coming third overall in the UK National Schools Outdoor Open Championships. In the summer she came first for her year of birth in the British Indoor Championships. She will be training and racing this winter, based initially in Norway then moving to Austria. It is a full on program with ski training in the mornings and school work in the afternoons, as well as fitness training on top.

We wish Jenna the best of luck.