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Junior Sport: dropped baton proves costly for the Royal High School.

Wed 9 Jun, 2010

The Royal High Junior School put took part in the  up two teams for today's annual Independent  Schools Athletics Championships.

On a beautiful warm and sunny afternoon, the girls were ready and raring to go! With a super sporting music compilation made by Mrs Millard, the event was sure to create an amazing arena for the competition to take place. The field events took place first and the girls supported each other around events. 

There were many fine individual and team performances. Chloe Vautier came third in the ‘B' team Long Jump, Alex Hayman won the ‘A' team High Jump and Minnie Karanjavala came 4^th in the ‘B' team Rounders Ball throw.

Next came the track events with competitors raring to go from the start! With a motivational team talk, the girls seemed ready to perform. In the 55m Hurdles, Jessica Tucker came 3^rd in the ‘A' team final; in the 80m sprint, Joanna White came 4^th in the ‘A' team final with Clemmie Ivory-Peters winning the ‘B' team final; in the 60m skipping, Beatrice Warren came 3^rd in the ‘A' team final; in the 800m, Alex Withey came 3^rd in the ‘A' team final with Beth Jolley winning the ‘B' team final in fine style; in the relay events, the RHS ‘A' team were winning the race when we dropped the baton at the first change-over, but managed to claw back from last place to 3^rd place overall in the final. The ‘B' relay team were in stunning form and produced another win of the day for their school.

With only 6 points separating the top 4 schools in this competition, the results were as follows.

A team Results:

6^th for the Royal High School (18 points)

B team Results:

1^st for the Royal High School (46 points)

Overall results:

1st        Monkton Combe            70 points

2^nd        Kingswood                    68points

3^rd         Bristol Grammar            66 points

4^th         Royal High School         64 points

5^th         KES                             54 points

6^th         St Margaret's                 26 points

7^th         Paragon                        12 points

8^th         Stonar                           0 points

Had the girls not dropped the relay baton in the ‘A' team final, their victory would have meant an ‘OVERALL' victory for the Royal High Junior School! However, it has been a great experience for all involved, and we are extremely proud once again of all the girls involved who represented the school in an exemplary fashion both on and off of the track! Well done!

To see the team photo, pleasde click on the link at the op of the page.

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