Sporting Achievements

Hockey
BGS has several students from different age groups who have been selected to attend the Junior Regional Performance Centre (JPRC):

U14

Megan Warinton

U15
Daniel Cullum
Redd Smith
Ben Stainer
Ellie Lindsay
Sarah Dixon

U16
Annie Koehli

U17
Chris Daubin
Lucy Egglestone

U18
Jack Fairs
 

County Rugby
The following BGS students are also representing the County for Rugby:

U13
Anthony Smith
Tom Scammell

U14
Freddie Foley
Ben Onyeama-Christie

U15
Harry Batchelor
Harry Jones

U16
Marcus Fatoye
Nick Brook
Mike Brook

U18
Jack Mitchell

 

Netball
Jasmine Fraser and Chloe Trigg have been selected to train at the U13 Satelite Performance Centre.
 

Cricket
The following BGS Students are County Performers for Gloucstershire cricket:

U12
Rishi Panchal

U13
Harry Thompson
Cameron Scott

U15
Tom Riley (Somerset)

U17
George Bacon
Charlie Killock

Climbing
Hamish Potokar recently came 16^th in his first ever National climbing competition at the U16 level even though he is in the U13 squad. He has been invited to trial for the National squad.

Orienteering congratulations
On Sunday 25^th April ten students competed in the Avon Schools’ Orienteering Championships in the Mendips. Podium places in their respective classes were achieved by: James Pheysey (third); Henry Marshall (third); John Grenfell-Shaw (second); Rachel Helfer (second) and David Maliphant (first).

Rebecca Guy competed in great form at the Welsh National Youth Championships. In the 200m freestyle she swam the heats in 2.09.35, comfortably inside the national qualifying time (NQT), and then swam 2.07.71 in the final to win the gold medal. She swam the 400m Individual Medley (IM) for the first time in a 50m pool and was agonisingly close to the NQT, missing it by 7 hundredths of a second where she achieved the silver medal. In the 100m freestyle heats she swam 58.97 to break the championship record but could not quite match this time in the final where she won the gold medal in 59.37 and another NQT. Her final event was the 200m IM where she destroyed the field, to win in 2.25.80; four seconds inside the NQT, and taking another championship record.

On Tuesday 16^th March BGS had a successful day at the Bristol Schools’ Finals as a number of our students performed really well. Will Darby won the 50 metre backstroke, Rebecca Guy won the 50 metre butterfly and 50 metre freestyle, the intermediate boys won the 50 metre medley and the senior girls won the 50 metre medley. Rebecca Guy was overall county champion in eight events at the Gloucestershire county championships. She also took the title of County Senior Champion in eleven events. Rebecca smashed two county records in the 200m and 1500m freestyle.  Her outstanding success means that she has qualified for the National championships (held annually in Sheffield) in the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle.
 
Synchronised Swimming
Congratulations to Anastasia Bates (Lower 6th) who was chosen to be a part of the Great Britain Junior Synchronised Swimming Squad in  March 2011.
She has also been awarded a Sports Funding Grant from Lloyds TSB Local Heroes which she formally received at Loughborough University.


Fencing
Callum Chivers has been re-selected to represent Wales for the UK School Games.

Oliver Dunnill was selected to fence for the England Squad in the U15 Foils Competition in Paris in February.

Athletics
Congratulations to Ellie Wimshurst who won a silver medal at the English Schools’ Cross Country Championship.

Congratulations also go to Olivia Salder (Lower 6th) who won the Avon County Schools Cross Country Championship in January and came 2nd in the South West Schools' Championship in February with a time of 13:23 minutes.
More recently, Oliva also came 2nd in the Bristol and West Open Meeting in the 800m with a time of 2:19.1 minutes.

Climbing
The climbing team performed brilliantly to achieve a triple trophy success in the South West Schools’ Bouldering League. The senior boys’ team (Xander Cullum, Oscar Knagg, Dan Hicks, and Mike Chuk) won their category; Xander taking the individual title. The junior boys’ team (Hamish Potokar, James Squire, Dan Cullum, and Alec Fraser) won their category; Hamish and James taking the first and second prizes individually.

The senior girls clearly won their category as Clare Hunter Funnell came first, Rachel Francis came second and Lizzie Pearce came in third place.

The Junior Climbing Team (Daniel Cullum, Olivia Francis, Alec Fraser, Hamish Potokar, Clare Hunter Funnell and James Squire) convincingly won the Bristol Schools Climbing Championships on Monday 25^th January. The individual performances were so strong that a super final had to be organised to split the team and award individual rankings. In addition to winning the top roped climbs and circuit events Hamish Potokar won the individual lead climbing competition beating all the senior entries from other schools. James Squire won the bouldering event showing that his success in the current South West Schools League is also well deserved.