the wellington college year book 2010/2011
the wellington college year book 2010/2011
Hockey Tournament beating Bradfield 5-0
in the final and progressed through to the
South semi-final where they narrowly missed
qualifying for the Nationals.
Our u16 and u14 Girls also progressed
through the Berkshire County rounds into
the South regional competition. The u18 girls
progressed to the South Regional Finals and
were narrowly beaten in the semi-final.
Sasha Burnet, Saxon Coop and James
Waite have been selected for the Junior
Regional Performance squads to train over
the summer.
Another ?ne year
was rounded o? in style
by beating Mill?eld
in the ?nal of
the HMC Foursomes,
the most prestigious
team event in
school golf.
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lacrosse: The girls’ 1st xii, ably captained
by Clare Doggart, gave an outstanding performance in the National Schools’ Lacrosse tournament. They won all six games in their group
and went on to the final. Unfortunately losing
a close game in the final minute put the Welly
girls 2nd out of the 28 teams in their division.
netball: Our Netball u16s successfully
basketball: Wellington College hosted
nine other teams for our annual Basketball
tournament this season.
The final saw Wellington face the reigning
champions Winchester. Winchester lead 16
-15 with 4 seconds on the clock when Captain
Gudjon Bodvarsson stepped up and scored
the winning basket to leave Winchester no
time to come back. Final score 17-16 to
Wellington.
cold water swimming: Wellington
pupils won three medals in the u19 individual
freestyle events: a silver for Evgeny Shuvalov
(who lost by 0.01 seconds to the winner), and
bronzes for both Phin Lyman and Jo-Jo Blunt.
The water temperature was 3.5°c ! At the
beginning of July a team of six swam the English
channel racing against six boys from Auckland
Grammar school. Mercifully the weather on
the day itself was gorgeous although there
was still a very large swell out in the Channel,
which made keeping track of our escort boat
while swimming rather tricky. It also became
increasingly busy out there as we tried to
avoid speeding freighters the size of blocks
of flats and the continuous Sea France ferries.
Buoyed by the most tremendous esprit de
corps aboard our boat, after just over thirteen
gruelling hours we landed on the rocks of
Calais just after midnight !
The Boughey Run —
Jack Corsan, pictured in the centre, wearing a
white T-shirt, on his way to an historic success
cricket: Early pre-season planning saw
the College Cricket 1st xi travel to Cape
cross-country:
Town and take on a number of the top South
African schools in the Western Province area,
in what was a tough schedule, which saw them
play five games in eight days. wccc recorded
impressive wins against Pinelands High School
and Somerset College. This helped kick
start one of our most successful seasons
ever bringing victories against Harrow, Eton
and Tonbridge, as well as recording ten
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