Termly Sport Review
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Athletics
At the Kent Indoor Championships, Saskia Taylor won the U17 300m in a time of 41.85 (this time puts her in the top 20 in the country) and was second in the high jump with 1.55m. Brianna Kuranga finished second in the U17 shot, with a distance of 9.71m.
Matilda Murray won silver in the 60m hurdles and 60m sprint at the Kent Indoor Championships.
Basketball
The U15 boys qualified for the final 4 of the LISBA play offs, beating Whitgift 60-50 in the semifinal before losing to Dulwich 55-85 in the final.
The U18 boys won the LISBA title for the third year in a row. They beat KCS Wimbledon in overtime in the semi-finals before beating Whitgift in the final. Paolo Radice Fossati was named MVP for the second year running.
The U18 boys beat Canterbury Academy in the Kent Cup semi-final.
The U17s won the LISBA Cup, beating John Fisher 63-58 in the final.
The U17s won the Kent Cup, beating Northfleet 88-66 in the final.
This season has seen the senior boys’ basketball team win five titles:
- U19 LISBA league champions
- U17 LISBA cup champions
- U19 Tonbridge cup champions
- U19 North School invitational champions
- U17 Kent Cup champions
Cross Country
At the English Schools, Jemima Wellesley finished 234th in the inter girls and Ben Catchpole finished 97th as part of the winning Kent team.
Climbing
At the Independent Schools Climbing Championships:
- Ruby Thomas finished third in the individual girls’ bouldering and 14th overall (from 218 competitors)
- Sevenoaks finished tenth overall
Fencing
The following students all competed in the Public Schools Fencing Championships at Lee Valley: Nysha Shahril Ridza, Daniel Hancock, Summer Chen and Ethan Hu. Special congrats to Ethan who finished 25th out of 100 and Summer who finished 6th out of 80 competing.
Hockey
The U12 boys finished 5th in the regional finals, having qualified through the county round.
The U13 girls finished 3rd in the regional finals, having qualified through the county round. The drew three matches and won one on the day.
Football
Bethan Thomas and Anjola Adekoya won the London Cup Final with Charlton Athletic, beating Wimbledon AFC in the final 2-1.
Sofia Touboul, Megan Bello-Mendoza and Ffion Thomas have been selected to play for London City Lionesses U21s on Saturday against Jackonsville College from USA.
At the St Thomas’ Battersea 5-a-side tournament, the U13A girls finished second and the U13Bs reached the semi-final.
Netball
Evie Soper has been selected to play for Kent U14 and will co-captain the side.
At the Lord Wandsworth U15 tournament:
- U15 A team – winners
- U15 B team – winners (POT Kimmi Ordish)
- U15 C team – runners up (POT Issy Couch)
At the Charterhouse U14 tournament:
- U14A team – 3rd
- U14B team – 3rd
- U14C team – 2nd
Rugby
Five Sevenoaks teams took part in the Rosslyn Park 7s Tournament. The pick of the performances came from the U13’s, who won four of their five matches. The U18 Girls also made their first appearance at the Tournament and finished with a good win v St John’s Leatherhead.
Sailing
At the National Schools Sailing Association 2v2 Team Racing Championships:
Firefly division (Senior)
- Sevenoaks White finished 4th overall and 1st place school team.
- Sevenoaks Red finished 5th overall and 2nd place school team.
Feva division (Junior)
- Sevenoaks Black finished 2nd overall.
- Sevenoaks Blue finished 5th overall.
Shooting
At the BSSRA Spring Leagues Section 1 Division 8, Sevenoaks won the British Schools League Division. Well done to Melody Zhou, Theo Felthon Smith, Kevin Cui, Olly Hornshaw and April Liu.
Squash
The KS5 girls finished third in the National Schools Championships.
The below students will be representing their counties at the Junior Inter County Championships:
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Kent U15 team: Arnav George, Ethan Hu and Dehong Kong
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Kent U19 team: Sam Ide
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Surrey U19 team: Ciara Boulanger
Tennis
At the Kent Doubles Competition, Simran Sahota and Maggie Hunter won the girls tournament while Rohan Garg and Alex Tarashev came third in the boys tournament.
Old Sennockians
Phoebe Barker won the Spanish National Sprint Duathlon.
Statistics
- 184 teams
- 1052 fixtures
- 48.6% win ratio highlighting a balanced fixture list
- 18 representative sports
- Project 1000 – 1030 pupils represented the school (82.7%)
- 50 caps – most caps in each year group this term
- Year 13, Kammy Bussey, 38
- Year 12, Audrey Huber, 32
- Year 11, Edoardo Clerici, 48
- Year 10, Dibbe Eerdmans, 62
- Year 9, Julien Beck, 57
- Year 8, Milly Hunter, 64
- Year 7, Xavier Lacour, 50
Volleyball
The U15 girls qualified for England Volleyball’s last eight, with the top eight teams in the country travelling to England Volleyball’s HQ in Kettering. They lost two matches and won one, finishing third in their group and sixth in the country. An amazing achievement, considering that only one other school team qualified for the last eight.
