Belvedere Ezine | Autumn Edition 2013
We are the
champions The GDST Northern Rally 2013 was held at Newcastle High School 18th September.
themselves. Their behaviour and team spirit was impeccable.
Girls competed in 7 different events including Senior rounders, badminton, trampolining, table tennis, tennis, Junior rounders and volleyball. As well as the usual Northern Trust Schools to compete against (Newcastle, Sheffield, Nottingham, Northampton, Shrewsbury, Birkenhead) there was also the addition of the newest school Church High. There is also a very prestigious gifted and talented challenge event that runs for year 9 students from the same schools.
Overall, the results for Belvedere were outstanding and Belvedere’s success was mentioned in the presentations a lot.
The standard of all events is extremely high with many county and even national players competing in most of the events. In all the years that I have attended the Northern Trust Rallies, I have not witnessed such a successful trip. All the girls that attended were a credit to Belvedere and
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Junior Rounders Winners Volleyball runners up Table Tennis A runners up Tennis B runners up Gifted & Talented runners up Junior rounders Despite Belvedere being the overall underdogs we ended up coming out on top for the first time in Belvedere history. The team was Jazmin Mooney (Captain), Maya
Haddley, Olivia Johnson, Phoebe Rhodes, Martha Potter, Amelia Corrie-Fairhurst, Alex McDermott, Rachel Smith, Lauren Evans and Anisha Singh. We won six out of seven matches only losing the other by half a rounder. After seven consecutive matches we were awarded 1st place above Birkenhead, Church High, Shrewsbury, Newcastle Central, Northampton, Nottingham and Sheffield.