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All change for UCC PE
UCC HAS INVESTED heavily in PE and school sport including a newly built health and fitness suite. Four new trampolines have been bought along with seven outdoor table tennis tables that students have access to during break and lunch times.
The sports’ curriculum has also been revamped to offer new and exciting sports to include Tchoukball, Danish longball, ultimate frisbee and more. And from September PE lessons are moving away from focusing on performance related skills in sport to skills such as resilience, communication and managing change.
Gymnastic success
CATMOSE COLLEGE HAS been celebrating two successful gymnastic competitions.
In the British Schools’ Gymnastics Association Floor and Vault they entered an U14 girls team, U14 mixed and an U19 mixed team. The U14 girls got bronze, the U14 mixed and a silver medal and the U19 mixed won gold and will now progress to the BSGA Floor and Vault National Finals to be held on May 1.
The Team Milano competition involves an individual floor and vault as well as a team group floor routine. Both the U13 mixed team and U16 mixed won gold and will now compete in the National finals on March 11 and 12.
The U16 Girls’ team won bronze and have been invited to represent the East Midlands in the U19 category at National Finals. Well done!
Fantastic Finn
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Finn who goes to UCC has recently been selected for the GB National Development Squad for climbing. Finn has been climbing indoors since the age of seven and on rock outside for the last two years.
Finn’s aim is to be a professional climber and he is a member of Team Foundry in Sheffield where he climbs four times a week with the hope of qualifying for the GB and European Youth Climbing Championships later this year. Go Finn! Netball success TWO TEAMS FROM Oakham have made it through to the National Schools Finals which take place in March. The U16s and U19s both successfully qualified with the U14s sadly narrowly missing out. It’s a great achievement as last year the whole season was cancelled. The teams are now training hard in the gym and getting lots of practice in for the tournament on March 12 and 13.
Oxbridge offers at Oakham
CONGRATULATIONS TO FOUR
Oakham students who have received Oxbridge offers. Zsolti, Peter, Alan and Oli will be going on to study a wide range of subjects including Computer Science and Maths, French and German, Music and Natural Sciences. Zsolti has also received a choral scholarship at Somerville College, Oxford. Well done!
Two womens’ rugby teams make a good start to their campaigns and Oakham gain the bragging rights in the local mens’ derby. Jeremy Smithson-Beswick tells us more
STAMFORD RFC STARTED the month with some good news and ended it with some bad but, fortunately, it’s the good news that will have the ore lasting effect on the overall health and vibrancy o the club ll at Hambleton Road were delighted that Stamford Women played their inaugural co petitive ture and won it t was the cul ination o a lot o hard work by people like Caz Dalby, her husband arren and chu aisy ttley who told e they’ve been trying to grow the numbers in the section or so e ti e until all o a sudden in September the numbers s yroc eted according to a oth o the too part in that rst ture and Daisy, who was named player of the atch ad itted that there was a palpable eeling o sel doubt as they too to the eld running out in ront o an i pressive crowd that had turned up to show their support and nu bered in the hundreds ere they going to be good enough ter about ten inutes all those doubts evaporated when they scored their rst try through annah ennis who was to go on to clai a hat tric and was replaced by a tangible relie as the realisation dawned we can do this! They went on to win handsomely 67-14 and I hear the rosecco was in ull flow a terwards
The s uad is a i ture o players who d been at other sides, returners to rugby and co plete beginners There are about twenty of them in all and they’d like more – any wo an who s loo ing to i prove her tness ight want to consider it e have so e non contact players they told e ou don t have to want to play the full game to join up and be a valued part o the s uad oth tal ed enthusiastically about the instant riendships they ve ade and how it s li e a new a ily nterested s they say on aceboo e train every Tuesday and ednesday ro p p eginner to e perienced we guarantee you a war welco e even i it is outside and the chance to be part o our
Stamford RFC Women XV ever growing tea ! rop us a essage or e ail wo en sta ordrugby co
The a ore entioned bad news is that against the form book, the men lost their eagerly awaited home derby against a ha which eans a s have now well and truly cornered the ar et in the local bragging rights, having done the double over the or two seasons running s they d also gone down to a heavy defeat against ortha pton ld couts the ga e be ore coach u chwar will be concerned that things seem to be moving in the wrong direction lthough th in the table promotion is now beyond them, but it’s only fair to mention that Oakham would gladly trade places as they re ain in the relegation slots si points ro sa ety behind t ves ou wait ages or a new wo en s tea and then two co e along at once es a a ingly another recently played their rst ull contact ture in late anuary This one was over at ar et arborough and the ga e was a friendly, against Old Sillhillians, as preparation or their opening league atch which too place a ew days later Unli e Stamford, they were to go behind early on but a aiden try – ro ull bac lora ngland wasn t long co ing They were to go on to score our o the in all in a narrow de eat but it was plainly ust the
preparation they needed as the following rst ga e proper saw the stroll to a victory over oventry out t ar ers utts irst hal tries ro annah en ins hristine iebis leanor o all and nally lora ngland again eant they were co ortably ahead at the brea The second period then saw the li t their ga e to another level with tre endous orwards play according to the club s own atch report
Li e ta ord they are actively recruiting new players (and they too describe the squad as a i o e perienced players and total newbies who want to have a great deal o un get tter and play a new sport The contact point is their head coach davidhenderson h yahoo co u ta ord ollege ld oys are having a pretty good season and progressed to the se i nals o the Lincs up beating egness with tries ro ir s ell raser and rierley Lewis They incurred a nu ber o in uries in the atch however so s ipper aydn ohns will be hoping they re not long ter ones Stamford RFC vs Oakham RFC
ro to now and ar et arborough s ootballers are en oying a purple patch recently notching up no less than their twelfth consecutive victory with a win over third placed ewport agnell ncredibly despite that record they are only second in the table behind inc ley who are having a spectacular season the selves but Town can ta e the top spot i they win their ga e in hand recent win against iggleswade with hat tric s or both a es reland and oel arta won t have har ed the goal diff erence either
Up a ew tiers in the orthern re ier League ta ord aniels were on a winning run o their own They hadn t atched arborough s twelve but a ho e win over iston ade it our on the bounce ew signing onathon argetts with a superbly e ecuted stri e as the club put it scoring the only goal t all ca e to an end against utton old eld as they were narrowly beaten away ro ho e by a single goal owever they re ain in the play off positions with ten atches to go
Whilst we’re on the topic of runs of good or eeping angers certainly deserve a ention having ta en si teen points ro the last twenty one although it too a very late goal ro a e howler to salvage a point against astwood in their last ga e be ore we went to press s anager aniel rench re ar ed they re now loo ing up to the top si whereas three onths ago it was very uch a botto si scenario
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