Athletics
Our athletes had an excellent day of athletics at the Kent IAPS, with success all round including records and personal bests across the board.
Boys Ben Apponyi – 3rd shot Tan Rabe – 1st 1500m 5.05 Nick Thomson – 1st hurdles Fred McGahan – 2nd hurdles Tom Phillips – 1st 1500m 4.49 Aidan Durant – 2nd 800m 2.25 Cameron Davies – 3rd 800m 2.28 Henry Palmer – 1st 200m 27.09 Henry Palmer – 1st long jump 5.30 (national record)
Year 8 Relay – 2nd 53.73
GirlsOlivia de Pury – silver shot, bronze in discus Natalya Keller – 1st U14 75m hurdles and high jump Amber Boardman – 1st U13 javelin Allegra Cuomo – 3rd U13 javelin Lucinda White – 1st U14 shot and javelin Georgia Baker – 1st U14 long jump and 2nd 100m Annabel Cheveley – 2nd U14 long jump and 3rd 200m Amelie Tsang – 2nd U13 high jump Katie Willis – 2nd U14 discusTelia Green – 3rd U14 1500m Esther Adcock – 2nd U13 discus
U14 relay 1st U13 relay 3rd
Cricket
Well done to our U13 girls’ team, winners of the U13 Kent cricket ODI festival. The team formed the guard of honour for the senior ladies England team playing at Canterbury which was televised on Sky Sports.
Fencing
Amelie Tsang has been selected to represent England in U13 foil. She also won silver at the England Youth Championships U13 Foil, bronze at the Trophee International Region Paca U15 in Avignon, France, where her team won silver. At Challenge Wratislavia U13 in Wroclaw, Poland, Amelie finished 29 out of 180 fencers. She was the highest ranked British girl.
Sailing
Congratulations to the Sevenoaks School sailors who finished first and third at the BSDRA Thames Valley championships. The B team put in an amazing effort to finish third, beating several A teams. Sailing for Sevenoaks were:
A team: Matt Caiger (Capt) & Annabel Richards, Cossie Lewis & Becky Caiger, Nick Davies & Ed Salmon
B team: Anne Marie Ratnage & Alice Parker, Ellie Wild & Issy Willis, Sean Lee & Moriz Forster
Tennis
The U15 boys came sixth out of 16 at the Eton pairs. The players were (Year 8) Hugo Coquelin and Michael Smirnov, and (Year 9) Freddie Stafford and James King.
The Sevenoaks U15 mixed double tournament was won by Freddie Stafford and Janani Sivayogan (Year 9). The plate runners-up were Vikas Kokkiligadda and Tess Hargrave (Year 9).
Allegra Cuomo was runner up at the U12 girls singles event at Sevenoaks School.
Sevenoaks teams won seven out of eight fixtures versus King’s Canterbury last week.
