Congratulations Girls!

Abigail Easton, Year 10, has been selected for the National Intermediate Training Squad for Sailing.

Polly Harlow, also from Year 10, has been selected for the Hockey Junior Regional Performance Centre Tier 1 for Greater Manchester. We will watch the girls' progress with interest!

See how she runs! Kirsten pulls it out all the stops for the GB 4x400m Women's relay team

Read the report on the 21st European Athletics Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia (21-24 July 2011), but above all take time to watch the video using the link below.  I guarantee that you will be jumping up and down in your seat with excitement and that you will agree with the commentator about the biggest piece of cake... intrigued??? all will become clear when you watch the video clip!

The individual 400m was only two rounds of 3 heats to a final. Kirsten ran a fraction outside her Personal Best in her heat and was very unlucky not to qualify for the final. She ended up in a very tough heat with three girls running PB's to edge her out. Our quickest GB girl prior to the Championships qualified for the final with a slower time than Kirsten. Kirsten was not a happy girl!

This gave her the opportunity to run the last leg of the 4x400m relay in the relay heats while one of the GB girls who had made the individual final was rested. Kirsten ran a very solid last leg, was the quickest of the GB quartet and secured her place in the team for the final.

Reserve a spare 5 minutes, sit comfortably, fasten your seatbelt, click on the link which takes you to the men's race, scroll down the page, select Women's 4x400m ( top row, second in from the left) and click to play.
http://livemanager.eurovision.edgesuite.net/eaa/site/index.html

Breaking News

We are delighted to report that Kirsten has just received a call to say that she is in the team for the European Junior Champoinship for the individual 400m and relay in Estonia- superb news!

Kirsten wins for Great Britain

Follow the link below to watch Kirsten McAslan, our elite 400m runner, win  the U20 400 m sprint for Great Britain at the Bauhaus Junioren-Gala in Mannheim with a time of 54.48 seconds.

Kirsten is running in lane 3

Well done, Kirsten!  Wir gratulieren!

Click to watch Kirsten win for Great Britain

Waterpolo: MHSG U14 team are national champions!

On Tuesday 14th June, the Under 14 (years 7-9) travelled to Bedford Modern School to take part in the Under 14 English Schools Girls National Finals.

They competed in 4 games and won all of them, the results were:

MHSG 10 Kings Warwick 2

MHSG 9 Alleyns 1

MHSG 8 Archbishop Blanch 0

MHSG 10 Bedford Modern School 1

The team completed dominated all of the opposition and played some of the best water polo I have seen played by a school team. The team were so on top that we were able to rest all of the older year 9 girls in the second half of all of the games and just play with the year 7 and 8s.

They were the overall winners, so are now national champions for the second year in a row at this age group.

Player of the tournament was Brearnna Close.

Katy Andrew was the top goalscorer with 11 goals.

Katie Hampson scored the first goal in every game and scored 10 goals in total.

Rosie Huck was the captain and played exceptionally well and also scored 10 goals in total.

The team was:

Year 9

Rosie Huck (captain)

Lara Metcalf

Katy Andrew

Katie Hampson

Year 8

Rowena Moore (goalkeeper)

Flo Thwaites-Miles

Brearnna Close

Year 7

Lara Ivkovic-Moutrey

Hannah Turner

Alvira Kumar

Year 8 at Debdale

Year 8 are given their first taste of sailing and windsurfing at Debdale Park.

Watch the clips of 8M  having a fun day, getting soaked in the water at Debdale! 

Girls are windsurfing, kayaking and sailing. Luckily the weather held off!!

Prep Junior Sports Day June 14 2011

Prep Junior Sports Day  June 14 2011

The annual Prep Sports Day was held on Tuesday 14^th June during the afternoon. It was a glorious day and the Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 girls did themselves proud.

All races were well contested and there were some very close calls.

4AA were overall winners of the Year 3&4 event and 5CS in the Year 5&6 event This is the first time in history that a Year 5 class has beaten the Year 6’s - an amazing achievement. Well done, 5CS!

Here are some Year 3 and Year 4 quotations:

Hannah: “Sports Day was fun and everybody was very supportive to me. They cheered for me even though I didn’t win anything. They were still saying, “Well done!”.

Nadia: “Sports Day was my first Junior one and it was by far my favourite. I enjoyed screaming and cheering for my friends.”

Naina: “I fell off the space hopper lots of times; it was so funny and everybody made me confident to get up and carry on.”

Greater Manchester Schools Athletics Championships

On Saturday June 11th students were selected to compete in the Greater Manchester Schools Athletics Championships at Longford Park stadium, Stretford.

Ellie Edwards won the Junior 200m                    26.4 secs
Naomi McIntosh won the Intermediate 100m     12.8 secs
Jordan Greenwood won the Intermediate 200m  26.4secs
Chloe Grant won the Intermediate  800m            2 mins 19
Kirsten McAslam won the Senior 200m              26.1 secs

All the above girls are now county schools champions and have been selected to represent Greater Manchester in the English Schools Championships in Gateshead on July 1st and 2nd.

Well done, all of you!

On your marks!

Katie's first major race at Longford Park