Waterpolo round-up

Written by Zara Dannatt

On the Sunday 28th November six girls Zoe Davison Rosie Hewitt, Nicola Hewitt, Amelia Dunlop, Zara Dannatt and Evie Smethurst (out of a team of 13) from NHEHS played in the Inter-county water polo tournament This was the first time we had played with half of our teammates We played Sussex, Surrey, Kent and Hampshire We managed to win against Surrey, 9-1, and Hampshire, 5-1 Unfortunately, we had a disappointing loss to Kent 2-1 and Sussex 6-3. Despite this we still managed to come second place overall, with Sussex coming first This was a very impressive result against some strong teams

It is not only in out of school water polo that NHEHS has been achieving success in, the Under 14- 15 water polo team has played fixture against Highgate and North London Collegiate The match against Highgate was a particularly challenging match as Highgate had a team predominately made up of boys Although the team has played many fixtures, we had not yet come up against a boys' team in school We found this challenging as some of them were physically a lot stronger than us However, we played well as a team and managed to draw We found that this match was good chance to challenge ourselves and develop our skills and knowledge of the game

There are also many more exciting water polo competitions coming up in and out of school We are currently looking forward to the ESSA water polo tournament in school and some of the NHEHS girls are competing in the Under 16 National age group (NAGs) in Sheffield on the 19th of December