Sport School celebrates another triumph
A SQUAD of 20 Kenilworth School orienteers from Year 7-11 took part in the West Midlands Schools Championships held at the Severn Valley Country Park near Bridgenorth in Shropshire.
The courses were quite challenging with lots of hidden paths and plenty of ups and downs along the backs of the Severn but everyone performed really well. Kenilworth School won the overall Secondary School trophy with some great performances from the whole squad, including six individual age group podium places.
Highlights from the Individual results were as follows: 1st – Florence Lunn (Y7/8 Girls); 2nd – Tabitha Lunn (Y7&8 Girls), Felix Lunn (Y9/10 Boys), Hannah Mathews (Y11+ Girls); 3rd – Nathan Chapple joint 3rd with Oliver Lunn (both Y9/10 Boys); 4th – Eoin Hankinson (Y7&8 Boys), Martha Curren (Y9&10 Girls), Drexil Lashley (Y11+ Boys); 5th – Sophie Stratton (Y9&10 Girls), Emily Knox (Y7&8 Girls); 6th – Nyah Kirkman (Y7&8 Girls) Christian Roberts (Y9&10 Boys); 7th – Fin Flippance ( Y7&8 Boys), Alla Pavuk (Y9&10 Girls); 11th – Charlie Glover (Y7&8 Boys).
With fast times but unplaced due to control malfunctions were Shane Creedon and Dan Huggard, Cameron Williams-Stein and Oliver Flip- pance. This was the last schools competition of the season for the Kenilworth School squad in what has been an incredibly successful year at local – winning the Warwickshire championships; regional – winning the West Midlands trophy; national – fourth at the British Schools; and International levels – the school’s junior boys’ team coming third at the recent World Schools championships in Sicily.
Next year the squad will be competing at national level in a number of competitions as well as preparing for selection in November to hopefully represent England again at the Word Schools’ Championships which take place in Estonia in April 2019.