Sports Awards 2022

Written by Sophie Claxton

On Friday 29th April 2022 the PE department hosted the annual sports awards in the school hall. The hall was decorated to a gold and black theme, with every table being a major female sporting event.

We were fortunate enough to have not one, but three, guest speakers – GB and England Hockey player Esme Burge, current U20 British 100m & 200m record holder in athletics, Nia Wedderburn-Goodison, and former GB Junior and London Penguins waterpolo player, Rachel Bull.

The evening started off with Miss Nicholas sharing a powerful message about NHEHS athletes comparing themselves to only themselves and finding a sport that they enjoy, pursuing it to their ability and playing sport for life. Then we had a Q&A with the elite athletes, where they shared some of their career highs and lows, how they got into their sports and pieces of advice for all the students attending the evening. It was inspirational to hear how each of them had different journeys in sport. After food, which was a BBQ, and dessert we got onto the main event – the awards. It was fantastic to see all the students winning various prizes in their respective sports, so many of them being Year 7 and 8’ s, which shows what talent we have in the younger year groups.

The main award that everyone was excited to find out the winner for was the Team of the Year, with it being a very tight contest with so many deserving winners. But there could only be one winner and it was the U15 Waterpolo team who won the U15 Nationals.

We then ended the evening off with a variety of raffle draws, which we were fortunate enough to have donated by a variety of elite sports teams and companies.

It was a fantastic event – definitely a highlight of the year!