Netball

Congratulations to our U14, U16 and U19 netball teams who competed in the Anne Miles netball tournament last weekend.

The standard of netball was incredibly high and the girls held their own throughout a tough day!

The U19s displayed some brilliant talent and versatility in the group stages. An injury also highlighted the grit, determination and team spirit to continue to produce some hard fought performances – a valiant effort.

Our U16s also started strong in the pool stages, convincingly winning three out of their five games. Some immense defending and wonderful sharp shooting helped to produce some brilliant moments of play. Only a narrow defeat against Sandringham pushed us out of a cup position finishing 3rd in the group.

Our U14s were victorious in all but one of their group games only losing to St Albans High School by two goals. A 2nd place pool finish resulted in a semi-final match against top placed Berkhamsted. A nail biting match that went goal for goal saw Presdales hold strong and take the match 10-9. The only team to beat Berkhamsted all day!

A fantastic squad performance and a place in the County Finals. More importantly, a spot in the elusive East Region Tournament! The next stage of the Nationals tournament awaits – let’s go for it girls!!

Football

A tough test for our U15s in the 1st round of the National Cup this week against a good Herts & Essex team. We started well and dominated the first half to lead 3-1. In the second half Herts & Essex threw everything at us and the next goal was going to be important. Presdales held out despite losing control of the game for 20 minutes and then started to re-assert themselves to score a 4th and make the game secure at 4-1. A good win for the first game of the new season. Goals from Mia Schillaci Rowland, Amy Little, Liv White and Marlee Seymour. Some really good individual performances. POTM is Mia Schillaci Rowland.

Well done girls!

Tennis

Great achievement from the Year 8 and Year 9 tennis teams who both finished Runners Up in the Nicola Mabbit County Tennis Finals last week.

The Year 8s finished top of their group to reach the final and came up against a very strong Haberdashers team in the final. The girls played some great tennis and pushed Haberdashers all the way.

The Year 9s also topped their group and gave Parmiters a real fight in the final. It could have gone both ways with some really tight games and lovely tennis played.

The girls were a huge credit to themselves and to Presdales in a tough competition. Once again, it shows the depth and quality of our pupils who compete so well across a huge range of different sports.

Well done to all the girls. You were all star players!

Athletics

DISTRICT CHAMPIONS

Huge congratulations to all the athletes who competed last week in the very hot conditions! A great team effort by Presdales!

We won the minor girls (Year 7) category and the junior girls (Year 8/9). We came second in the inter girls (Year 10/11) by 2 points and won the senior girls (Year 12/13) to become the overall girls winners!

Our senior boys and girls combined also came in 3rd place!

Special mention to those who won their individual events-

Sophia Pettengell 🥇 hurdles

Tami Ojo 🥇 shot

Skye Martin 🥇 high jump

Scarlett Victory 🥇 hurdles

Jess Botheras 🥇 shot

Amy Little 🥇 High jump

Junior relay team 🥇

Honey Hudson 🥇 hurdles

Georgiana Fowler 🥇 javelin

Honey Hudson 🥇 triple jump

Inter relay team 🥇

Jess Downing 🥇 hurdles

Jess Downing 🥇 400m

Molly Barnard 🥇 800m

Molly Barnard 🥇1500m

Congratulations to Molly who won the Outstanding Athlete of the Day for Presdales for winning both 800m and 1500m on a very hot day!

Athletics Plate Finals

Well done to all of our athletes who competed in the County Plate Athletics finals this week in Hemel. The standard was incredibly high but the girls gave their all and there were lots of impressive performances!

NICKY MORRIS CHAMPIONS

A massive congratulations to our amazing athletes who won the Nicky Morris trophy for the 33rd consecutive year yesterday!!

The U13 team came 1st, the U15 team came 2nd and the over 15 team came 1st. With an overall total of 334 we secured 1st place!! So proud of you all, well done!

Athletics season complete!