golf - Jules Akel

66 w e l l i ng ton y e a r b oo k 2 0 07 − 2 0 0 8w e l l i ng ton y e a r b oo k 2 0 07 − 2 0 0 8 67athleticsc o p e n h ag e n s h i e l dwellington e p som marlborough brighton stoweboys . . . . . . 261 . . . . . . . 312 . . . . . . . 255 . . . . . . . 261 . . . . . . . . 73girls. . . . . . 256 . . . . . . . 233 . . . . . . . 245 . . . . . . . 165 . . . . . . . 168to score a century at Wellington in making 111 not out up their Saturdays. Particular mention should be made ofagainst Charterhouse (see also page 116).Chris Potter, who, despite now being the ow secretary,The boys and girls are very lucky to play on such looked after the Yearlings 5th xi this season, above andoutstanding wickets and to have so many dedicated beyond the call of duty. Potts is now hanging up his bootscoaches. There is nothing to match a sunny afternoon on for good, but he has been coaching a team here for nearlyTurf with three matches going on simultaneously. We are 40 years and I am delighted that he will of course be outall very privileged. My thanks to the many coaches who on Turf next summer and supporting Wellington cricketspent hours out on Turf during the week and then gave for years to come. Mark BoobbyerTat h l e t i c she season opened with a series of trials for Sarah Burgin [Ap] set a new track allcomer’s recordboth girls and boys in all yeargroups followed of 2 minutes 18.04 seconds. This proved inspirational toby a new fixture—the Copenhagen Shield. the girls’ team who ran out overall winners on the dayWe travelled to Marlborough with the first ever fully following strong performances in all events with a specialco-ed Wellington College athletics team not really sure as mention for Charlie Bowring [O] and Maddie Henrito how we would do in a match against Brighton, Stowe, [O] (5th and 4th Form respectively) for finishing 1st andMarlborough and Epsom. The standard for the day was 2nd in the all-yeargroup girls 1500m. The boys also did veryset in the very first race—the girls senior 800m in which well finishing equal-second to a very strong Epsom team.The wcac boys team took part in the Lord Burghleymeeting at Eton on 10th May. College athletes achieved 44personal bests on the day in beating Radley, St Paul’s, rgsGuildford and Pangbourne overall. The seniors, inspired byTristan Garton’s [Bn] winning run in the 2000m SteepleChase (he took 20 seconds off the old College record andset an u19 allcomers record at the tvac), produced theirbest team effort in years and beat Eton in finishing 3rdin the Open competition. What was especially pleasingwas that we were only 2 points behind Tonbridge whobeat us by over 100 points last year ! The day ended withWellington winning the Tug of War competition—muchto the Etonian dismay…On the same day thegirls’ team again travelledto Marlborough College totake part in their 6-schoolsmeet. The seniors finished4th overall, the Inters 5thand the Juniors continuedwith their two-year unbeatenrun in finishing 1st.Sarah Burgin [Ap]Sarah Burgin set anotherallcomers’ record in the senior 400m in a time of 60.48seconds and Sophie Edwards [C] won the Junior 80mHurdles in 12.51 seconds—another allcomers’ record atthe Marlborough track.wcac Boys competed against Radley, Abingdon,Bradfield and Dean Close at Radley College on 15thMay. With only the Junior and Senior squads enteringthis event due to gcse examinations, some of the availableIntermediates (u17) were brought into the senior team.We continued our excellent form in winning both teamr a d l e y c o l l e g e m e e t i n g 1 5 t h m ay 2 0 0 8events overall with many boys running in events that theywould not normally have chosen—with Ben Gateley [L]winning the senior 400m, Deji Olufowose [L] in finishingfirst in the senior 200m as well as Ollie Keene [Bn], 4thForm, winning the senior High Jump against boys 3 yearsolder. The senior 4 x 100m squad squeezed out DeanClose by inches to win in their best time of the season andonly 0.2 second off the College record. Not only did thiswin the race but also the senior competition overall by asingle point—a fine end to an excellent team display.The Inter-House Athletics and Tug of War meetingwas held on Rockies, with the re-introduced Tug of Warcompetition drawing the big crowds and loud vocal supportfor the teams.i n t e r h o u s e at h l e t i c s & t u g o f wa r m e e t i n gro c k i e sboys’ athletics . . . . . . . . . . bensongirls’ athletics . . . . . . . . combermeresenior boys’ t.o.w. . . . . . . . . . hillgirls’ t.o.w. . . . . . . . . . . wellesleyjunior boys’ t.o.w. . . . . . . . beresfordThe Homfray-Davies Shield Match was held atWellington on Saturday 7th June. This was a co-edmatch between Brighton College and Wellington. Inwarm sunshine on a well-prepared Rockies the team didfantastically well in beating a much stronger Brighton teamthan the one we had met at Marlborough earlier in theterm. Although the junior girls managed to scrape a drawthe other 3 teams managed to pull through on the day.Bizzie Mallett [O] 4th Form, set 4 personal bests inthe 100m, 300m, Javelin and discus with Abbie Dorling[C] improving her personal best’s in the 200m and Highr adle y abingdon br adfield de an close wellingtonu19 . . . . . . . 85 . . . . . . . 60 . . . . . . . . 43 . . . . . . . .107 . . . . . . . 108u15 . . . . . . . 92 . . . . . . . 79 . . . . . . . . 66 . . . . . . . .dne . . . . . . . 102