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 fine year
was rounded oV in style
by beating Millfield
in the final of
the HMC Foursomes,
the most prestigious
team event in
school golf
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
won the Final of the South East Berkshire
Tournament and our u14s were runners up.
The u19s reached the County Final, beating
strong teams from The Abbey, Downe House
and Maiden Erleigh along the way. They finally
beat St Mary’s in the final, winning comfortably
and resulting in the first Wellington College
netball team to be titled County Champions.
The 1st vii then went on to finish fifth at The
Regional Finals.
golf: Another fine year for Wellington golf
was rounded off in style by beating Millfield
in the final of the hmc Foursomes, the most
prestigious team event in School Golf, under
the Captaincy of Jordan Mann. We also won
the Gerald Micklem Trophy for the seventh
time in the last ten years. Jordan has won a
scholarship to Havard.
Many congratulations to Heidi Baek who
won the World Junior Golf Series us Junior
Masters over Christmas. The event was
played at tpc Sawgrass, one of the toughest
courses in the world, and the venue for the
Players Championship every year. Truly a
remarkable achievement?!
hockey: Our Boys’ Hockey 1st xi played in
the Three Kings International Tournament at
the Real Club de Polo de Barcelona and were
very competitive against some very strong
opposition. Dominic Cooke was voted the
u18 player of the tournament amongst an
exceptionally talented international field.
The u16 and u14 boys were once again
crowned Berkshire County Champions. The
u18 hockey team triumphed in the County
polo: This has been an awesome year for
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polo at Wellington. In the Lent term we
played in a world first, a group fixture against
Rugby School. In total we put out eight teams
to play against eight teams from Rugby, a world
record?! Our Sixth Form novices went on to
play in the National Novice tournament and
ended up as National Novice Champions. Our
a team played in the new National Polo League
run by supa. We won all our matches scoring
71 goals in total and beat Cheltenham in the
final to become National Arena Champions.
The first, and most important, tournament
for us on grass was our own Copenhagen Cup,
held at Coworth Park and involving ourselves,
Eton, Harrow and Cheltenham.
Having
beaten Eton in the semi-final, we triumphed
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