Termly Sport Review

Athletics

Brianna Kuranga finished second in the Kent Indoor Athletics Championships Shot Putt, throwing 9.12m.

BASKETBALL

The U12 girls have qualified for the Junior NBA play offs.

The U18 boys won the LISBA league playoffs beating Dulwich 67-59 in the semi final and City of London 52-37 in the final. They have now gone back to back with LISBA titles. The U16 and U15s each finished third in their respective leagues.

The U17 boys beat Beth’s Grammar School in the semi-final of the Kent Cup. This is the first time a Sevenoaks team has reached the Kent Cup Final.

CLIMBING

A team comprising three juniors and three seniors competed in the Independent Schools’ Climbing Competition. There were 210 climbers in total, and Sevenoaks finished 6th out of the 33 teams.

Well done to our teams:

Ruben Tandy (came 6th overall as an individual senior), Ryan Friis, Joseph Charkin
Frederik Find (came 8th overall as an individual junior), Ruby Thomas (female junior winner), Dan Robertson with Olivia Court as reserve.

Cricket

The U13 and U15 girls’ indoor cricket teams both finished runners up in the county tournament.

CROSS COUNTRY

Max Malkinson and Dan Hadden represented Kent U20s in the inter-counties in Nottingham. Max finished 95th (26:03) and Dan 106th (26:22) from a field of 155 runners. The Kent team finished 14th from 37 counties.

At the English Schools in Pontefract, representing Kent, Ben Catchpole finished 114th and Alice Keen 121st.

FOOTBALL

The girls 1st XI were knocked out in the semi-finals of the Kent Cup. This is the furthest the 1st XI have got in this competition.

The boys’ U15B team are league champions, having won all 5 matches, scoring 23 and conceding only 4 goals.

HALF-IRONMAN

Marjolaine Mauduit, Eliza Muysken and Juliette Mauduit completed a half Ironman for Multiple Sclerosis Society on Saturday 2 March. Donations can still be made here.

Juliette writes:

Thank you to Mr Emmitt for supporting us during the swim. It was raining heavily for the first half of the cycle (and very cold), but the second half was quite enjoyable and we made it to 90km in good shape. The run was a lot tougher than we had envisioned (especially with the hills in Knole Park), but we pushed through and made it up onto the track with 5km to go. We completed the half marathon just before 7pm, incredibly sore and exhausted but very proud to have made it to the end!

HOCKEY

The boys 1st XI won the Tier 3 regional round, beating Collyers, Seaford and Harvey Grammar to reach the finals in Nottingham. At the finals the team won one match, lost one and drew one in the group, before drawing the final game, leaving them placed fifth in the country.

Congratulations to Betrys Galloni (OS 2023) who represented Oxford in the recent Varsity hockey match, gaining a blue in her first year at university.

Netball

The U14 girls qualified for the national finals at Oundle School on Sunday. They won 5 from 8 matches, drawing 1, to place them 3rd in the group and the 5th best school in England. They played well over 30 matches in three qualifying rounds to reach this stage,

RUGBY

The 1st VII reached the semi-final of the Wolf Hawkins Cup at the Kent Champs.

RUGBY SevenS

The U13 boys won the Shield at the Windlesham Tournament, beating some very strong teams on route to the final.

The same team also won the Sevenoaks Prep School Invitational 7s tournament.

The U18 boys won all three of their group matches at the Roslyn Park Sevens but lost on golden point to King’s Taunton in extra time after drawing 26-26 at full time.

Shooting

The shooting team won this term’s British Schools Small-bore Rifle Association League, topping the division by winning every round.

SQUASH

At the national finals in Birmingham, the Key Stage 3 boys finished fourth, the Key Stage 3 girls finished fifth, and the Key Stage 5 girls finished third in the country.

SWIMMING

At the Bath and Otter Cup:

Girls 4 x 50m freestyle relay – 11th
Boys 4 x 100m freestyle relay – 12th
Girls medley relay – 10th
Boys medley relay – 5th

At the Kent County Swim Championships:

Amelia Tovey – 2nd 200 Fly, 3rd 800 FR, 7th 400 FR, 7th 100 Fly, 14th 50 FR.
Tom Ellershaw – 5th 100 FC, 2nd 200 BK, 6th 200 FC, 3rd 50 FC
Damian Dadkov – 9th 100 FC, 10th 200 BK, 3rd 50 FLY, 8th 400 IM, 7th 100 FLY, 6th 50 FC
Charles Dunstan – 9th 50 FLY, 6th 100 FLY
Chengze Duan – 1st 50 FLY (in a new Kent record), 1st 100 FLY