Head's Newsletter 28 May 2021

The male version of the competition saw a great 8th position matching our best ever at this event. The last time we did this we gained the male version of the most improved cup. This time we were not quite so lucky. The boys team was well balanced with two year 10s Oscar Luck and Connor Foley along with two year 12s Jack Hartrey and the resurgent Euan Sinclair. The year 13s were the very useful Ginaluca Maffi and the lest leg honour went to ,Vice-Captain, Charlie Krammer. The male captain Eyoel Ababaw-Mesfin was injured for the days event but ran a qualifying time earlier in the preceding week. There were great performances by the year 10s and 11s in the B and C teams and the year 12s looked strong with Coventry ever present Matthew O’Donovan being joined by rising star Alistair Brendon and Year 13 logistics expert Ryan Foley had the honour of leading home the B team. After the event the prizes for the two years were given out at the Boathouse with special mentions to the Captains Neve who was imperious in the organisation of the team underpinning the ever present and successful nature of the squad and Eyeol Ababaw- Mesfin. The latter who in his long and illustrious representation of the school has achieve many great feats. The one that readily springs to mind is the decimation of an Olympians record (Martin Rooney 400m Olympic European and commonwealth relay medallist and one time GB male athletics’ captain) for the Oxted relay course as a year 10 intermediate. It is very rare to have two Captains for two years in the row, and to have two of such quality is unprecedented. Tiffin A Jess Holmes 00:22:47 Freya John 00:23:23 Antonia Hristova 00:24:31 Neve Husaini Capt 00:25:09 01:35:50 12th in country most improved from 38th last year Tiffin B Sarah Kenny 00:28:43 Lottie Fry 00:26:35 Pollyanna Roberts Vice Capt 00:28:15 01:53:48 5th B team Tiffin A Oscar Luck 18:42 Connor Foley 18:28 Jack Hartrey 18:34 Ginaluca Maffi 18:34 Euan Sinclair 19:44 Charles Krammer Vice Capt 19:36 01:53:38 8th Team

Tiffin B Zach Storey 20:24 Alistair Brendon 19:42 Dominic Virley 22:19 Matthew O’Donnovan 21:15 Ben Craig 24:07 Ryan Foley Sec. 22:29 02:10:16 4th B team Tiffin C Jonny Schaffer 23:26 Tong Wu 24:06 Mathew Gibson 21:55 Eyoel Ababaw-Mesfin Capt 21:13 02:15:29 2nd C team

Cross country team runner Sarah Kenny with the most improved Ladies’ team trophy at the National Coventry Relay award 2021