Athletics

District Athletics Champions!

Congratulations to all of our athletes who competed last Friday at Wodson Park in District Athletics!

Our minor girls team came 1st overall with Honey Trevellyan-Tucker also winning her discus and Ava McManus winning her 1500m.

Our junior girls team came 1st overall with Scarlett Victory winning her hurdles, Olivia Holme winning her 800m, Georgia Wittey winning her discus and Rosie Bentley winning her high jump!

Our inter girls team came 1st overall with Alice Lynn winning her hurdles and high jump, Beth Botheras winning her 300m and the relay team also winning!

Our senior girls team came 1st overall with Jess Downing winning her hurdles and discus, Molly Barnard winning her 800m, Lotty Hobson winning her 1500m and javelin and Amelia Kaufman-Cook winning her triple jump!

Our senior boys team came 2nd overall which was also history making as it was the FIRST EVER boys team Presdales has ever had!! Ollie Hobdell won his 1500m and Josh White won his high jump!

Well done to everyone involved – another very successful day!

County League Plate Final

Congratulations to our athletes who also competed in the County League Plate Final this week. The plate final was for schools who placed 5th-8th in the county throughout the athletics league this summer.

Well done to our U14 team who placed 7th overall and a huge congratulations to the U16 team who came joint 1st overall with Hitchin Girls!!

Special mention to the following girls who won their events:

Martha Ker – 800m Beth, Martha, Alice & Ella – 4x100m Relay Scarlett Victory – Hurdles

Great work girls especially against some really tough competition!!

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Tennis

Well done to the girls who competed in the recent Nicola Mabbit Tennis Tournament at Queenswood. Presdales were represented at U13s, U14s and U16s after qualifying as District Champions in these age groups.

The girls played some magnificent tennis throughout the afternoon. Lots of super-close games that were decided on the smallest of margins.

The U13s finished 6th overall against some strong competition but they narrowly missed out in a number of their games.

The U14s finished 4th overall, again suffering a number of narrow defeats which went down to the wire with deciding game tiebreaks!

The U16s finished as deserved Winners losing only one game from the 8 matches played and dominating most of their matches with some fantastic tennis.

The entire team contributed and it’s difficult to pick anyone out specifically, however the Star Players were as follows:-

U13s – Ava McManus U14s – Chloe Pearce U16s – Ellen Beesley

Well done to all of the girls. Another example of the depth of sporting ability across multiple sports at Presdales!

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Rounders

Massive congratulations to the Year 8 rounders team who remain undefeated and were crowned district champions last week! Excellent batting, fielding and team work from all of the girls! Star player was Amy Little for her excellent catches and fielding on second post!

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Student News

Don’t forget that Presdales PE Department are on Facebook! Please follow them to see our students’ achievements in non-school sporting activities! This month, we have had student successes in Athletics, Dance, Hockey and Football!

Football

Wednesday 10th May

Congratulations to our Year 7 football team who won the District League beating Broxbourne 4-2 in the final!

The final was the culmination of a series of matches played this year in the district league with Presdales and Broxbourne finishing top of their respective groups. It was a wonderful spectacle, with fantastic skills on display. This shows how much girls football has developed in a short space of time.

The girls played brilliantly, and refused to be intimidated by a noisy Broxbourne support from the Year 7 boys! Presdales started fast and threw everything at Broxbourne in the first 10 mins. After a few near misses, Florence W opened the scoring with a lovely finish. A further goal from Keira G, with a beautifully controlled shot from the edge of the box, extended our lead. Broxbourne pulled a goal back just before half time.

Presdales again started fast in the second half and continued to dominate. Two fantastic goals from Olivia W extended the lead 4-1 before conceding a late goal to finish 4-2. Broxbourne were tough opponents with some excellent players, but great defending as a team kept their chances to a minimum.

The girls ALL played brilliantly. Coaches Players of The Match were Keira Gale and Alek Ivaskevicuite. Well done to all the girls, you are such a talented team!

This was the last competitive match for this school year and caps a very successful season for football at Presdales. I’m looking forward to next year already!

Monday 22nd May

Great performance from our Year 7 footballers who beat St Edmunds 3-1 in a friendly this week. We were short of players so thanks to Sienna Rowley for stepping in at the very last minute!

Presdales attacked relentlessly but could not find the back of the net. The deadlock was broken just before half time by Mia Gilmour who latched onto a through ball and calmly finished.

In the second half, it was the same pattern of attack by Presdales and again lots of near misses, hitting the post and good saves by their goalkeeper. We then went 2-0 ahead with a lovely bit of skill and composed finishing by Mia Storey. Sienna Rowley added a third with a fantastic first time strike into the corner.

St Edmunds came back into it a bit, partly because we had no subs and the girls were starting to tire a bit in the heat. Emma Martyn Stephens made a great save to keep the score at 3-0 but St Eds did manage to score a consolation goal to finish 3-1.

St Eds voted Mia Gilmour as Player of the Match. Coaches Player of The Match was Mia Storey. This was the final football match for Presdales in this school year, so it was nice to end with a win. Well done to all the girls!

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Swimming

Well done to our swimmers who competed in the swimming gala at Haileybury last night! Against some tough competition, ‘PresHales’ (Presdales & Richard Hale combined) came 2nd!

The girls were amazing as always and lots of the girls swam up an age category to help out the team. We even had some year 7s swimming up in the senior category beating senior boys and girls which was very impressive!

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Rounders

Year 9

Well done to our Year 9 rounders team who showed great effort but lost our first game of the season against Simon Balle 12-9&1/2.

Year 10

Massive CONGRATULATIONS to the Year 10 Rounders team who had an amazing win against Simon Balle – especially as we only had 6 players! Star Player was Georgiana Fowler – batting into the next rounders pitch and superb fielding!!!

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Student News

Don’t forget that Presdales PE Department are on Facebook! Please follow them to see our students’ achievements in non-school sporting activities! This month, we have had student successes in Karate, Badminton, Swimming, Football, Athletics, Hockey and Gymnastics!