February 2019
WYCOMBE HIGH SCHOOL
SPORTS BULLETIN Spring 2019
Over the summer, Allie attended golf training Welcome to the Sports Bulletin, a half-termly sessions at golf clubs around Oxfordshire, update of our students’ sporting achievements. providing encouragement and support to younger Go to the Sports website for details of fixtures and girls getting their first taste of the sport. follow us on Twitter @WycHighsports In January this year Allie attended an award ceremony at Henley Golf Club and was presented Individual Success with trophies for all of her 5 wins at the club, Allie Golf narrowly missed out on the Girls' Order of Merit Allie Holtom (Y10, B7) has put in a lot of effort with title, but did secure the most wins. her coach over the winter period and refined changes to her swing for the 2018 season. Overall, a great 2018 season with Allie reducing her handicap to 19! In early spring Allie was asked to represent Oxfordshire as an ambassador for Girls' Golf Rocks. This is an national initiative by Golf England to help encourage more girls into the sport. In April, Allie represented the Oxfordshire girls team against Berkshire winning her handicap match at East Berkshire Golf Club, then a week later Allie halved her best ball scratch match at Henley Golf Club. Towards the end of April, Allie played for Oxfordshire again at Woburn on The Duke's Course. Allie narrowly lost her best ball scratch match to Buckinghamshire on the 17th green.
Football
In January Hannah Dawbarn (Y12, T2) participated in a five day training camp as part of In May, Allie won the best individual score at the the England Women’s U18 football team, where BB&O (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & the team stayed at St George’s Park, with great Oxfordshire) Team Stableford for the second year facilities, the team had access to a gym, brilliant in a row. This event took place at Oakland Park pitches and a swimming pool. The team had Golf Club in Chalfont Saint Giles. training sessions every day and played an 11v11 training match on the final day, and won! Helen Allie represented Oxfordshire again in July helping Richardson-Walsh, part of the GB hockey team who won gold in Rio, came in to talk to the team them to victory against Buckinghamshire with a about teamwork and togetherness, which was the 5&4 victory. Then later in the month Allie came 2nd in the Midlands South Junior Team Stableford main theme of the camp. Hannah found missing with 39 points. This was a large event with teams five days of school was difficult, but England football have been from Berkshire, Bucks, Northamptonshire, very supportive Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire & and were given Herefordshire County Associations. time to catch up on their school work! Good work Hannah, we look forward to more England team updates! 1
Trampolining Zoe Godfrey (Y7, T1) recently competed in the Southern Region NDP (National Development Programme) Level 1 grading, achieving a qualifying score high enough to also qualify for the Regional Team trials at the end of March, finishing 5th out of 26. On the same day, she also competed with her team in the Southern Region Regional Development U15 Team Competition, finishing in first place! She is now training hard for the trials at the end of March. Good luck Zoe!
200m Breaststroke: 1st place, South East regional time and achieved a county record 100m Breaststroke: 1st place, South East regional time and achieved a county record 50m Breaststroke: 1st place and South East regional time 100m Butterfly: 3rd place 50m Butterfly: 2nd place and South East regional time 200m Individual Medley: 1st place and South East regional time 400m Individual Medley: 1st place and South East regional time
In terms of aggregate points for all age groups, Harshika came a very close third. An amazing Harshika Srivastava (Y7, N2) is to be congratulated for a very successful performance at achievement Harshika, keep up the good work! the Berkshire and South Buckinghamshire County Swimming Championships 2019. The event took place over two weekends - 12/13 January and 26/27 January at Wycombe Leisure Centre.
Swimming
Harshika participated in 15 events in the 12 year age group with 9 first place finishes, 2 second places, 2 third places and 1 fourth and fifth place finish. She achieved south east regional qualification times for 9 events, based on provisional times published by Swim South East, and also broke three county records. Here are her results: 800m Freestyle: 1st place
Rugby
400m Freestyle: 2nd place and South East regional time
Congratulations to Molly Finn (Y9, B1) who has been selected to play in the Buckinghamshire County U15 Rugby Squad.
200m Freestyle: 1st place and achieved a county record
With the current Six Nations competition and the upcoming 2019 Rugby World Cup raising the 100m Freestyle: Reached the finals and finished in profile of women's rugby, it is a great time to be selected for such a high level squad! 5th place 50m Freestyle: Reached the finals and finished with a 4th place and South East regional time 200m Backstroke: 1st place 100m Backstroke: 1st place and South East regional time 50m Backstroke: 3rd place
Team Success Cross Country
Gymnastics Floor and Vault Championships
On Sunday 3 February the U14 Gym Squad travelled to St Mary’s School in Gerrards Cross to compete in the 2019 Floor and Vault A fantastic 15 Wycombe High School students competes at the 'Bucks Cross Country Champs' on Championships. The girls all performed beautifully and unfortunately just missed out on a podium Wednesday 6 February 2019. It was a great position. Rufaro Chikwanda (Y9, A3), Lois Snelling turnout by our talented runners but also a record (Y9, A8) and Lola Bonnick (Y9, A5) performed in turnout with over 100 runners from year 5 to 13 both the fault and floor disciplines and we had a and brilliantly organised by our resident athletics last minute team addition from Year 7 step up and super coach, Alan Hewson. Runners competing: perform a floor routine, well done Joanna Snelling (Y7, A1) for performing so gracefully with such Joanna Snelling (Y7, A1), Isabelle Walker short notice! (Y7, T1), Aashni Manek (Y7, B2), Keshni Manek (Y9, B6), Bessie Chalmers (Y8, N4), Lucy Wheeler (Y13, N4), Annie (Y9, C7), Ana Montgomery (Y13, T9), Tia Lomas (Y9, A9), Sofia Lomas (Y7, A6), Lyra Browning (Y8, A4), Alexandra Stowers (Y9, P9), Samantha Grice (Y10, N3), Francesca Luker (Y10, P5) and Mia Waterhouse (Y12, A7).
Buckinghamshire Schools’ Cross Country Championships
Lucy and Ana both received letters inviting them to join the County team, as is the aim and challenge of this event. Most difficult considering the talent in Buckinghamshire! Lucy placed 5th and Ana 10th. Absolutely amazing! The Minor Girls race saw Sofia, Jo, Isabelle and Aashni place all between 8:31 and 8:47 over their 2000 m course.
Swimming
Hill-loving Tia placed highest in the junior girls race League in an amazing 15th out of 115 runners, followed by On Wednesday 30 January the third round of the Buckinghamshire Schools Swimming League took Keshni, Annie, Lyra, Bessie and Alexandra. place at Wycombe Abbey School. The WHS teams Francesca and Sam placed a comfortable 23 and performances were excellent, the juniors are 24 in the inter-girls race, accessing cross country currently in second place with only a few points separating them from first place and inters have at a later age, which is truly marvellous being a overtaken Wycombe Abbey and are in first place touch, competitive sport at this level and age. A with a big lead on the points table. The inters put really fantastic achievement. in an outstanding performance, coming first in all of their races and breaking some league records in the process! Well done to Megan Daley who set a new 50m breaststroke record and Annie Oakes who set a new 50m Butterfly record. The final league gala will take place on Wednesday 13 March where the league winners will be announced.
Year 7 & 8 Gala
On Wednesday 6 February the Year 7 and 8 swimming teams took part in the annual Wycombe Abbey Sports Leader gala. For lots of the team it was their first time representing the WHS swim team. Wycombe High School dominated the competition, winning both the Year 7 and Year 8 competition and therefore taking the overall school win! Congratulations to all of the swimmers who took part 3
Hockey U12 In2 Tournament
On Tue 12 Feb the U12A Hockey Team travelled to Marlow Sports Club to play in the U12 In2Hockey National Schools Competition 1st Round. The competition format meant that the team had 5 matches to play, the first game against a very strong GMS side, after a challenging game the team lost 5-0. However they learnt a lot from this game and approached their next games with a very competitive edge seeing them win their next two games against SWB & BHS. Their 4th game against DCHS proved very competitive and they narrowly lost 2-0. In their final game they came back strong and ran out 2-1 winners over AHS. Overall the team finished joint 3rd which was an excellent result and shows a team that is growing in strength and character. Team: Kailee, Tilly, Millie, Rosie, Eloise, Katie, Aashni, Izzy, Ruby, & Emily.
U13 In2 Tournament
Our final match was against Dr Challoners and with an amazing goal from Anouska Modray-Lane we secured a win at 1-0. This put us in 3rd place overall meaning that we just missed out a place to the next round. On behalf of the whole team we would like to say thank you to Mrs McPhillips who gave up her time to help us in the last few matches, it definitely made a difference to our game play. Also thank you to Jess Harrison for umpiring all of our matches and giving us advice and Miss SaintSmith for stepping in for Mrs Butterfield and also taking us to the tournament. And last but not least a massive thank you to Mrs Butterfield for coaching us every Monday evening and Wednesday lunchtime. We wouldn’t have been able to do any of this without them.
By Emma Turrell (Y8,P4) and Rosie Windsor (Y8, P3)
The In2 Hockey Tournament was on Thursday 14 February and we took nine players, this included: Emma Turrell (Y8, P4), Rosie Windsor (Y8, P3), Sophie Midwinter (Y8, N1), Sophie Ellis (Y8, N5), Sophie Newcombe (Y8, P9), Katie McPhillips (Y8, A4, Anouska Modray-Lane (Y8, C5) , Annabel Tillyer (Y8, B10), Hannah Saunders (Y8, B8). We went straight into our first match against Great Marlow and came out with a bang. We got two early goals which secured our win at 2-0, Rosie Windsor scored the first goal and Sophie Ellis did some great runs down the wings and Anouska Modray-Lane got a great deflection into the goal. After that we played Pipers Corner and although we defended hard we lost 4-0 with an unfortunate injury to Sophie Midwinter resulting in being unable to play the next few matches, but she was also awarded player of the match.
Netball U19 Regional Finals
The wonderfully talented U19 Netball team, coached by Sarah Grey, did an outstanding job by winning the County round of the National Schools progressing onto the Regional Finals. It was always going to be a tough day for them but they fought hard and lost just two of the matches which unfortunately meant they couldn’t progress A few injuries led to the team having no substitutes and a minimum number of players. We through to the National Finals. Nevertheless, a great team effort and some superb netball on battled against Borlase only to lose by 5-0, with show from the girls. Well done to Polly Campanini, terrific saves from our keeper Katie McPhillips. Izzy Merrick, Ellie Ervine, Lucy Herritty, Caitlin Hannah Saunders stepped into defence and did Joyce, Mia Pierce, Phoebe Grey, Steph Marsden, some amazing tackles. Lucy Sutton. Our following game was Aylesbury High School and with two early goals from Emma Turrell and Cricket some good block tackles from Annabel Tillyer we Lady Taverners Indoor District Competition won 3-0. Very well done to the U13 Indoor Cricket Team who recently WON the District Tournament at Beaconsfield High were our next opponents and Amersham School. They now progress onto the we got our first goal with a great cross into the D Regional Finals which we wish them the very best from Sophie Newcombe. We kept going but of luck for. The team consisted of: Alex Clark, unfortunately Beaconsfield High managed to pull it Aashni Manek, Anah Rahman, Anusha Mittapalli, back and scored an easy goal in the last few Navya Sareen, Tilly Fellows, Sophie Midwinter and minutes. This resulted in a 1-1 draw. Amber Drewe.
Football
Inter-house Results
U13
Well done to everyone who took part from Years 7 The U13s won the futsal tournament winning all of to 11! Below are the results for the spring term. their 3 games, scoring 11 goals and only conceding 1, outstanding play! The team have had Year Group Results: continued success in the league by winning their first game 2—1, we wish them the best of luck for the rest of their league games.
U15
The U15s won the futsal tournament also winning all of their 4 games, scoring 19 goals and conceding 1, another amazing performance from our WHS footballers. The team have had further success in the league, they won all of their seven games and therefore are the league winners. Additionally, the team won their County Cup semi final in a very close game against Lord Grey School but managed a last minute 2-1 win! They will now go through the final round and will play at Arbour Park on Wednesday 13 March—good luck WHS!
Overall Results 1st Place: Parks & Nightingale 3rd Place: Austen 4th Place: Pankhurst 5th Place: Curie 6th Place: Bronte
Fencing The Wycombe High School fencing team recently fought against Wycombe Abbey. We fielded a novice team. The foil team did win some bouts but unfortunately lost overall. However, despite having Key Dates fewer fencers than the opposition the Epee team Highlights: drew, having to fence three times as much as their Wednesday 27 March & Thursday 28 March rival counterparts. We wish the team further successes in upcoming events.
DofE Celebration Evening: Tuesday 30 April
Year 7&8 UK Sports Tour: Friday 7 June — Sunday 9 June
Sports Day: Tuesday 9 July Reserve date: Tuesday 16 July
Sports Achievements
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