Head's Newsletter 22 October 2021

was covered in splendid isolation. No other year 9 or younger athlete was in sight of the year 7 winner Thomas Whorton. To win at Charterhouse is not unprecedented but to do so against athletes who were at least two years older was nothing short of remarkable especially given the quality of opposition.

RUNNING CLUB WINS

Congratulations to the whole squad and to Thomas who beat a field of athletes up to two years older than him ( yr9s) . Not only were the athletes older they were also from schools that are regularly in the top

The running club ran the Kings Trophy on Wed 6th October. The Ladies team placed 6th in the South East the Gentlemen placed 10th. Two brilliant results.

half dozen in the south and two of which regularly win national titles. We are looking forward to our inaugural appearance at the Epsom Downs league on Sunday 7th Nov. In addition, Jonny Schafer completed a grand slam of minimarathon appearances placing in the top 220 in the under 17 event. He has represented Kingston every year he was eligible, a considerable achievement to get selected for Kingston once, let alone 5 times. Thomas Whorton helped Wandsworth into a fine 9th place and Matthias Poeizi helped Kingston into a good 20th place in the country. We hope their representation continues as Jonny has done.

On Saturday 9th Oct the club ran at Charterhouse. A numerous and talented year 7 team came 4th in the Pan London Competition against many other schools including two of the top 5 schools in the country. This was an even more remarkable result as the other schools fielded year 9 runners against them. The senior team ran well to place 6th. The most remarkable result was an individual success. The seniors ran two laps including a monster hill. The juniors had the pleasure of doing only one lap. When the top 10 seniors appeared for the first lap there was one Tiffin athlete amongst them. A year 7 athlete had matched runners for pace who were up to over 6 years older than him. The last part of the finishing lap of the 500m field

Jesper Naisby in the English School Cup