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“All of our teams performed well at the Coventry Schools Tournament.”
Football Another season of unfulfilled promise! We were unable to make our home ground a fortress, although we did beat Princethorpe and Myton (thanks to an impressive Jake West brace) either side of Christmas. The January transfer window proved fruitless, however numbers are very encouraging for the 2015-16 season, which has made the coaching staff feel very confident of better times! Mr Jeff Grantham
Rounders With most of the teams winning their matches, this season was good. The U18s finished on a win against KHVIII by half a rounder (15-14.5). All of our teams performed well at the Coventry Schools Tournament; we were victorious in the U12, U13 and U14 age groups and narrowly missed out in the U15 age group, where we finished runners up. At the U14 Warwickshire tournament, we finished 8th out of 16, narrowly missing out on competing in the top. The highest scoring games of the season came from the U12Bs (26-16) and the U14Bs (29-9.5) against Princethorpe and the U16As (32-3.5) against KHVIII. Sophie Price
Swimming Jade Aston, Georgia Ementon, Jasmine Marajh and Georgia White were part of the girls’ team that competed at a National Schools competition at the Olympic pool in London. The girls competed against schools from all over the country and performed very well, finishing 3rd in the freestyle relay heat and 6th in the B final. We claimed a narrow victory at the gala with KHVIII. Our win was largely thanks to a magnificent performance from our 2nd Year girls who came first in every individual race – Sophie Arora, Jasmine Marajh, Hattie Morris and Georgia White. There was also an exceptional swim from Shell former Livia Turnock, who came first in the 50m back crawl. Bablake triumphed in the Coventry Schools swimming gala overall; our U13 girls won their section and went through to the Warwickshire round. The girls swam well again and finished runners up; well done girls! Mrs Sue Smith
Tennis This season was a steep learning curve for our girls who were up against teams that trained regularly for club, county and beyond. Our most successful age group was the U13s, while our U12s won their final fixture against KHVIII (6-2). The bounce on the new AstroTurf courts was very good and all our players are looking forward to playing on the new courts at school next season, and build on progress made this year. The season was also difficult for the boys with losses recorded across all ages against Warwick, however we recorded wins against Princethorpe. Well done to all those who participated this year; we look forward to more success next year. Rounders – afternoon practice
Sophie Price @TheWheatleyan / www.bablake.com / @bablakeschool
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