FIRST XV RUGBY

Although we did not have the most successful season in Rugby Union, we beat local rivals Lymm High School and Wilmslow High School across the board and put a double on the Grange School in both friendly and National competitions. We had a number of players successfully climb the ranks up from Year 11 to join the squad as well as a number of other students proving able to shine in both the 1st and 2nd teams.

Despite our Union season ending in a loss to the Old Boys, there was success within our 7’s teams. Many games were closely fought and, in the end, the team that went to the County 7’s triumphantly returned with the shield.

Our first school event of the season was the Greater Manchester Schools’ Table Tennis tournament. This event was held at AGSB, and we were being coached by Brian Kean. We had a lot more teams competing for AGSB than we did last year; this is mainly due to the significant increase in both interest for the sport and players signing up. Because of this, we had to make multiple teams for both the U13 and U16. Every one of our teams played exceptionally well and managed to win their tournaments, allowing us to all compete in the Zonal finals later that month.

All of our teams managed to qualify from the Zonal finals, into the Regional finals. In the regional finals the Under-13s fought valiantly but unfortunately just fell

Though it was not the final season some of us hoped for, it was not for lack of trying and through narrow defeats such as in the 3rd round of the National Cup we unfortunately had many avenues closed. Thank you to Mr Meakin, Mr Parker and Mr Cundick for sticking with us throughout the season and we wish the future of AGSB Rugby good luck.

J Ryan