GDST Condover Hall Netball Tournament

Written by Imogen Hignett, Carys Baker & Guusje Vroegop

This year the U13 A team were very successful at Condover Hall. On Saturday we played 8 tough matches against various GDST schools and managed to win all of them and get through to the Cup playoffs on Sunday

In the Cup playoffs, we played three hard matches and got through to the semi-finals! Then, we played against Putney High’s B team; it was a close and difficult match but we managed to get the victory! This got us into the finals in which we played Portsmouth High School; they were our hardest match but we still won with a score of 86!

Overall, the U13 A team played really well and we were proud!

B Team Report

Throughout the very exciting residential trip to Condover Hall Shropshire, the NHEHS B team performed exceptionally On the first day (Saturday 7th) we played 9 matches against various schools Unfortunately, we missed out on the cup section by only 1 place, but we were happy with our results and qualified for the plate section!

The following day (Sunday) we played 3 matches and we won all of those matches Therefore, we qualified for the quarter-finals which we won and then the semi-finals which we also won, getting us into the final The final was against Blackheath, who we had lost against on Saturday, so we tried to keep positive The quarters were played and at the end of the last quarter we were tied All of us were nervous to play the additional 2 minutes of extra time. Within the first minute of the extra time we had managed to turn over a centre and get a goal Now, it was our centre pass, Minna stepped into the circle and off we went We only had about 30 seconds left and we played cleanly and managed to get it into the circle, where I shot the finishing goal for the B’s The whistle blew and there were tears of joy in all of our eyes- we had won the plate section!

C Team Report

Condover Hall has been one of the big highlights of the year. There were lots of activities and opportunities to show off our skills We won all of our pool games, qualifying for the cup playoffs, which we are super proud of, seeing as we played against other schools' A and B teams

Some of the highlights were the activities, including climbing that were available on site We were able to play a whole lot of matches and work as a team We had an amazing team mascot (a squeaky bird) which cheered us on the whole way All in all it was a great experience and we would love to do it again