Head's Newsletter 12 July 2019

Ollie Coppellotti

Also Ollie ran 1500m in a time of 4.09.73 at Watford on 29 th May; not quite a school record yet but he has over a year to go!

tennis

The inaugural annual fixture of the ‘Tennis Challenge Cup’ against Kingston Grammar School took place in June. The format was Fast4 tennis doubles, with 6 players from Years 7, 8, 9 and 10 taking part. The Year 9s got the ball rolling with a 5-3 win and the Year 7s continued in the same vein with a hard fought 5-4 win. So at the half way stage, Tiffin had a handy lead of 10-7 and the Head of Tennis at KGS, was starting to worry that Tiffin were going to pull further clear. However, that was not be and our Year 8s lost 6-3; the tide had turned. This meant that for the Year 10s going into the final match, we were all square at 13- 13. Despite trying their best, the Tiffin side lost 5-4, with one of the rubbers being 3 games all, followed by 4 points all in the tie break and then the Tiffin pair losing the sudden death deciding point.

Ollie has made a great contribution to the cross-country/athletics in the school. He won the Borough championships with ease. He was 5 th at the Surrey Schools’ championships and was selected for the Senior boys’ team at the English schools championships held in Leeds in March. The Surrey boys’ squad won aggregate silver in their category at this event. He was 3 rd for RBK in the schools’ athletics championships at 800m, gaining a bronze medal. For his club he won silver at the Bruce Judd Surrey relays in October at Guildford. He then gained a silver in the team race in January at Lloyd Park. Ollie’s best times this athletics season: He recorded a time at Watford on 19 th May of 1.57.84, a School senior boys’ record. He beat the old time recorded by Mark Reed of 1.58.4 set in 1992, who subsequently went on to obtain a Blue for both Oxford and Cambridge in the 800m in the course of his undergraduate and post- graduate studies for medicine. Ollie looks set to beat one of the oldest Sports day records of 2.00.2 for 800m set by Andy Moore in 1984.