the wellington college year book 2010/2011
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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 sco red
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?—
completed for the first time
Jack Corsan
pictured in the centre
wearing a white T-shirt
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
other victories, the first time this has been
achieved in one season. Perhaps the climax
of the season was the amazing ninth wicket
partnership that saw us inch home against
Millfield in the semi-final of the National
Schools 20/20 competition. Unfortunately
the Lord’s final was washed out, but is due
to be replayed at the beginning of September.
Competing in the
Berkshire Schools Championships, Wellington
won the Intermediate Boys and Senior Boys
trophies and approximately a dozen girls and
boys have been selected to run for the county.
The College also confidently won the
Pat Bagnall Trophy. The English Schools
championship saw James Harris finish an
outstanding run to finish 132nd of 313 in the
Senior Boys event and we hope he achieves a
top 100 place next year.
football: Our u16 and u18 football
squads travelled to Villa Real for pre-season
matches and training. The first football tour
in the history of Wellington College and
because of its resounding success we hope
the first of many.
All football teams triumphed at some stage
throughout the season, combining to make
this the most successful season in our history.