PE Stars of the Month – September
Congratulations to the following students who are our PE Stars of the Month!
Congratulations to both the U14 and U16 netball teams who recently played against Broxbourne. The U14s won 31-18 and the Player of the Match was Poppy Ward and the U16 won 27-14 and the POTM was Evie Macrae.
Great start to the season girls, we can’t wait for more!
Congratulations to the Year 10 County Cup netball team who this week played their first round match against Sherrardswood and won 51-7. Great work girls, this means you’re through to the quarter finals! Player of the Match was Rosie Bentley.
Congratulations to our Year 7 cross country team who took part in the annual mob race last week!
Special mention to the following girls who individually came in the top 3:
Skye Martin
Ella Reynolds
Amelie Martin
As a team, Presdales also came 1st overall!
Great job girls, what a great start to sport at Presdales!
Fantastic performance from the U14 girls who beat Sandringham 6-1 on Wednesday in the first round of the National Schools Cup. This is the first time Presdales has competed at this level of competition.
After going a goal behind after just 30 seconds!, Presdales dominated the remainder of the match running out convincing winners. Great performances all over the pitch in horrendously wet and windy conditions. Player of the Match was Liv White who scored a hat-trick. Well done girls!
Don’t forget that Presdales’ PE Department are on Facebook and now on Instagram! Please follow them to see our students’ achievements in non-school sporting activities! This month, we have had student successes in Netball, and an ex-student, Ellis Miller, recently became World Champion as part of the women’s canoe team!
What an amazing experience at Wimbledon Court 1 tickets watching Skupski (GBR number 1 seed) and his partner win to make the mens doubles final, Murray mount watching Jabeur get through in the womens singles semi final, strawberries and cream, Wimbledon shop and testing how fast our serves were (Ellen scored highest with 71mph). Lots of exciting junior tennis on the outside courts too.
Well done to all of our athletes who competed on Thursday 6th July and throughout this years very successful athletics season!
Our U13 team came 2nd!
Our U15 team came 1st!
Our Over 15 team came 1st!
This meant that we were crowned champions for the 31st year in a row!! (Minus 2020-2022 where no one competed due to covid)
Congratulations to the following girls who won their individual events:
Jess Botheras – U13 shot put
Izzy Wilson – U13 standing triple jump
Scarlett Victory – U15 75m hurdles
Rosie Bentley – U15 high jump
Jess Downing – 15+ 300m hurdles and discus
Martha Ker – 15+ 800m
Alice Lynn – 15+ 80m hurdles
Ella Little – 15+ long jump
Beth Botheras – 15+ 300m
15+ 4x300m relay team
Special mention also goes to our over 15 4x300m relay team – Jess Downing, Alice Lynn, Martha Ker and Beth Botheras – who smashed the record and therefore were awarded the Jane Branford memorial award for outstanding athletic performance!!
Congratulations to our first ever senior boys team who competed in the Bruce Longden Athletics Competition on 12th July at Wodson Park!
The boys were competing in division 2 as it was our first time at the event against teams including John Warner, Saffron Walden, Leventhorpe, Freeman, Sele and Goffs Academy.
The boys absolutely smashed it and only went and WON!
Shout out to the following boys who won their individual events:
Josh Hole – 100m Hurdles and Shot put
Josh White – 100m and High jump with a crazy jump of 1.80m!!
4x100m relay team – Tobeya Ikeyina, George Reilly, Josh White and Josh Hole
4x400m relay team – Josh Hole, Josh White, Ollie Hobdell and George Reilly
Hopefully this means we will get promoted into division 1 next year.
Thanks to our Year 12 leaders who helped officiate events throughout the day
A very special day as it was our first ever win of a boys trophy for Presdales and an amazing end to an incredible athletics season!
Last weekend, Presdales Equestrian team took three members to Brook farm to jump the 80/85cm and the 90/95cm as a team and as individuals.
Evie Lodge on Kadanz was first to go in the 80/85cm where she had a tack malfunction resulting in her being unseated. However she got back on and jumped the 90/95cm to come back with a brilliant result of 2nd place as an individual!
Next to go was Ellen Beesley on Leith Libretto on whom she jumped an amazing round in the 80/85cm to win the class as an individual! Then she had a go at the 90/95cm where she gave it her best just to have a miscommunication at the final fence.
Last to go was Ruby Robinson on CrossWord where she rode 2 clears in both classes to come 2nd in the 80/85cm as an individual and then she jumped the 90/95cm to win the class individually!
Not our day for the team but it was all good practise for the season ahead in September but we gained some brilliant results. Well done girls!
Huge well done to the Year 7 rounders team who played their district tournament last week. They won 3 matches and lost 2 so ended up coming in 4th place. Some excellent batting and fielding from everyone, but the Star Player goes to Annabelle Copues for being an excellent backstop all tournament!
Ellie Bostock (Year 11) is the Schools INTERNATIONAL Shot champion!!
As Ellie recently became English Schools champion, last weekend she represented England at the Schools International competition. Not only did she get a new pb of 15.03m but also came in 1st place! We so proud of you Ellie – you are incredible!
Well done to all students who have been involved in Gifted and Talented PE club this year.
The girls have dedicated their Monday mornings each week before school to improve their fitness and overall sporting ability, despite already having heavy training schedules for the high levels they train and compete at in their individual sports.
Also students are welcome to apply in September for next year if they compete at a county level or above (or equivalent) in any sport!
Thank you to everyone who has competed in any house sporting event this year, it has been fantastic to see so many of you representing your house and enjoying the various activities. The following points (12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2) are given for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th respectively for each event. They are accumulated over the year and the final results are as follows…
Year 7 Victrix Ludorum
Daisy Goodwin – 1st in High Jump and equalled the school record, 1st in 200m and broken the record
Year 8 Victrix Ludorum
Florrie Pidduck – 1st in 800m and broken the record
Amy Little – 1st in high jump and broken the record
Year 9 Victrix Ludorum
Rosie Bentley – 1st in high jump and set a new record of 1.49m
Year 10 Victrix Ludorum
Lucy White – 1st place and new record in triple jump which stood since 2012
Beth Botheras – 1st place and new record in 300m which stood since 2010
Year 12 Victrix Ludorum
Jess Downing – new record in discus and the 300m
Other records broken:
Josh White (Year 12) – high jump which is now 1.76m!!
Ollie Hobdell (Year 12) – 1500m
Tobeya Ikeyina (Year 12) – shot
Josh Hole (Year 12) – 200m
Jack Markham (Year 12) – Javelin
George Reilly (Year 12) – 800m
Teah Gregory (Year 10) – high jump
Martha Ker (Year 10) – 800m
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!
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!!
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!
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!
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!
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