Wykeham Journal 2019 | Page 13

Celebrating Our Success S P O RT I N G S U C C E S S Fives At the National Schools’ Championships, Marcus Cloke-Brown (B, 2017-) won the U16 singles plate, Dominic Percival (B, 2015-) and Sebastian Fraser (E, 2015-) won the U18 doubles. Tennis Yearlings 1st pair, Christopher Lee (E, 2018-) and Freddie Van Every (A, 2018-), have lost only one set all season. The 1st VI have won all but 2 matches and the 2nd VI managed to go one better only losing the one match. Basketball Nosa Okunbo (E, 2016-19) started playing for Team Solent Kestrels in the national U16 Premier League. He has since transferred to Lawrenceville Prep in New Jersey and is now attracting the attention of NCAA and Ivy League university teams. Martial Arts Teddy Wilmott-Sitwell (B, 2014-19) and Hugh Travis (H, 2014-19) achieved black belts in Aikido. William Richards (C, 2015-) and Oliver Mackay (H, 2015-) gained black belts in Karate. William St John Butler (H, 2014-19) passed his Sandan (3rd dan black belt), which is the highest grade ever awarded to a WinColl pupil. Cricket Lords had their best season for 10 years winning 13 of their 20 games. The Yearlings A won 11 of their 12 games. Wilf La Fontaine Jackson (B, 2018-) has scored unbeaten centuries against Dauntsey’s, Eton and KES and therefore averaged 198. Chess The Winchester Chess team reached the regional finals of the National Schools’ tournament. Hockey Freddie Krone (D, 2015-) Casper Hall (B, 2018-) and Chris Batten (A, 2018-) have all represented their countries and the 1st XI lost only once this season. Fencing Joe Donaghue (A, 2016-19) won bronze in the Senior Schools Scottish Open Fencing competition and finished 24th (out of 259) at an international event in Budapest, the top U16 GB fencer. Richard Discombe- Short (E, 2017-19) came 2nd in the Welsh U18 Men’s Sabre. Running Four Wykehamists were in the top 10 in the District Cross Country Trials held at Perins School, Alresford. Rifle Shooting Top shot went to William Griffith (E, 2016-), who scored 99% on one occasion and Jacob Mallabone (C, 2015-) has the highest average of 95%. A RT I S T I C E N D E AV O U R S School and House Plays covered as always an eclectic mix: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, William Wycherley’s The Country Wife, Giles Cooper’s Unman, Wittering and Zigo, Mel Brook’s The Producers, and a 45-minute production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.   Stand out performances include Tomas Sargeant’s (B, 2014-19) Willy Loman in Death of Salesman, Arthur Ritchie’s (A, 2016-) Wittering in Unman, Wittering and Zigo and Louis Christie’s (G, 2015-) hilarious Ulla Inga Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen Hallen Svaden Swanson in The Producers. The Wykeham Journal 2019