Athletics
There were some fantastic performances at the IAPS athletics event
Year 7
Max Chen – 3rd Relay
Piper Houston – 3rd Discus, 2nd 100m
Ffion Thomas – 1st Javelin
Brianna Kuranga- 1st Shot Put
Connie Coquelin – 2nd Hurdles
Sophie Fleming – 1st 800m
Alex Greene – 2nd 800m, 3rd Javelin, 3rd Relay
Daniel Otawaa – 3rd Relay
Malachy Trotter – 3rd Relay, 2nd Javelin
Eloise Volant – 2nd 200m
Year 8
Maddie Evans – 2nd 100m, 1st Relay, 2nd Shot
Anjola Adekoya – 1st Discus, 1st Relay
Rosie Hornshaw – 3rd 100m
Selma Zidan – 3rd Hurdles
Luna Bolton – 1st Relay
Tiffany Oyewole – 1st Shot
Will Bradshaw – 1st Relay
Noah Houston – 2nd Discus, 1st Relay, 2nd Hurdles
Charlotte Bloodworth – 2nd 1500m, 1st Relay, 1st Hurdles
Marjolaine Mauduit – 1st 300m, 2nd Javelin,
David Abobade – 1st Shot, 1st Relay
Sam Chaplin – 1st Triple Jump and 3rd Discus
Pendar Ahmadvazir – 1st Relay
Ben Catchpole – 1st 1500m
An impressive mix of 29 medals including 12 Gold, 11 Silver and 6 Bronze.
Basketball
As part of the South Super Region team in the Aspire All Star National Tournament, Elodie de Jong and her team did very well, finishing as runners up. A great learning experience for her and team.
Cricket
Girls’ cricket has really flourished this term and continues to grow. There have been nine teams, 23 fixtures and seven tournaments entered. The programme will only go from strength to strength and the future looks bright as highlighted by the large numbers of girls choosing cricket in the Lower School and Year 9 in particular.
Fencing
Congratulations to Amelie Tsang on winning silver at the Senior British Fencing Championships in Sheffield.
Womens’ Foil:
Amelie Tsang (Y11) 2nd
Maddie Gale (Y13) 26th
Mens’ Foil:
Woser Prossor (Y12) 30th
In addition, Amelie was selected to represent Great Britain at the U23 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.
Hockey
Congratulations to Ruby Balcombe who has been picked for the U17 England Hockey Performance Centre Challenge Cup 2022.
It was an iInspiring day out at Lee Valley on Sunday for 30 of our hockey players, to support the Senior England hockey side in the FIH Pro League. Brilliant to see the experts at work!
Sailing
At the BSDRA SE Area Championships, Sevenoaks Sailors finished second overall in U19s and also took second and third in the U17s after a long day with almost 150 races vs 10 other schools.
Izzy Johnson competed in the Regional Junior Championships for London and the South East. This is an U16 event with Izzy finishing as the first girl, placing fourth overall.
Shooting
Sevenoaks won the triangular fixture versus Tonbridge and Sutton Valence by a margin of 42 points. Massive congratulations to Alex Flemming, who in his first year of shooting and managed to top the leader board.
Tennis
Our U15 boys’ side finished as runners up at the Eton Pairs competition.
Wakeboarding
Dana Turgeneva is competing in the girls U18 category at pre-professional level in Russia, and will enter pro-wakeboarding competitions once she turns 18.
Visit
We were delighted to welcome Olympic gold medallist Joe Choong to Sevenoaks to speak to students last week after he was invited by Zachary Raymond (L6) . Joe gave the students a lot of practical training advice and also went into detail on his career in the sport of pentathlon.