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NBA European Finals

Congratulations to Liepa in Year 10 who has been selected as one of a squad of twelve U15 girls representing the Junior NBA in Valencia.

In the week before half-term, Liepa went to a basketball trial in London attended by 150 U13 and U15 students. She will now travel to Valencia for four days at the end of June to play at the Junior NBA European Finals.

Good luck, Liepa, and we cannot wait to hear how you get on!

U15B Win

The U15B team enjoyed a sunny day at Hurstpierpoint for their only cricket match in a weather-affected term.

Roedean won the toss and sent Hurstpierpoint into bat. With some tight bowling and constant wickets, we really squeezed the runs and ensured the Hurst batters never got going. Polly and Erin bowled particularly well, with good consistency and accuracy.

Our Roedean batters needed 270 runs to win. The limited time meant the Roedean batters only had two overs per pair to get the total and a Duckworth Lewis method was used to resolve the match to maintain fairness. The Roedean batters strode into the crease and scored good totals together, hitting freely and protecting their wickets well.

After our allotted overs we managed to score 253 in 7 fewer overs. Due to the Duckworth Lewis method, Roedean won the match by 3 runs, as we had a higher run-rate throughout our batting innings.

Mr Campleman

On Monday 12 June, 6 members of the Roedean Swim Team took part in an Aquathlon held here at Roedean. In spooky, misty, yet warm conditions, the aquathletes navigated a 300m swim and 1km run (Juniors – Yr7 & 8) or swam 500m and ran 1.5km (Inters – Yr9 & 10).

Originally Hurst and Ardingly were due to attend, but they had to withdraw just leaving us against Brighton College. Clara came 3rd in the Inters. Evelyn was 2nd in the Juniors and Farah 3rd. A big shout goes out to Astrid, who knocked 2 minutes off her previous best and Greta who knocked 90 seconds off her PB.

It was a fantastic effort by all entrants, in a gruelling event that saw our girls demonstrate marvellous determination, endurance, and resilience. Well done!

Mr Pocklington