GHS squash team top in the country for the third time
The Girls’ High School squash team has done it for the third consecutive year, bringing home the trophy as the best girls’ squash team at school level in South Africa.
The team – Teagan Roux, Monique da Cruz, Kirsten Lyons, Tyla-Mae Roux, Courtney Stone and Logan Raasch – participated in the annual Top Schools squash tournament in Pietermaritzburg over the weekend with coach Dee Brill and manager Hanneke Coetzee in attendance.
They beat other contenders – Epworth, St Mary’s, Parys, St Andrews and Midstream – to the coveted title with a decisive 91 points to the 77 of Parys and 69 points of the third-placed school, Epworth.
GHS won the title in 2016 and 2017 and this year celebrated the third consecutive victory. Selborne College from East London was placed second in the boys’ category.
The amazing fact is that GHS has managed the achievement despite the fact that the school does not have its own squash courts, with the players using the two Queen’s College courts.
GHS principal Theo Anaxagoras said it had been with “great pleasure” that he received the news of the GHS squash team’s placing as the top team at the National Top Schools’ squash tournament.
“To attend this tournament, our girls had to qualify by establishing themselves as the top team in the Border region, and were then invited to attend the national tournament. In my mind, our success is attributed, first and foremost, to the dedication and hard work put in by the players, the guidance and support of their coaches, and the unconditional support given by the community as a whole.”
He said the team’s achievement was not only GHS’s glory, “but reflects the spirit of ubuntu most evident in our very remarkable Komani community”.