SPORTS
ATHLETICS It has been a successful year for Athletics at Borlase. There has been a consistently strong turn-out to Athletics club and Year 8, 9 and 10s have represented the school well in the District Athletics League at Little Marlow Track on Tuesday evenings. There have been a number of excellent performances this term and we are hoping a few individuals will qualify for English Schools at the County Athletics event. Well done to Jas Presho who has already got the qualifying height for Pole Vault, and will be in the Bucks team at English Schools.
Schools Junior Cross Country Championships. Despite a difficult course across muddy terrain, all our runners did exceptionally well: the Junior and Inter girls teams both came third in Bucks and qualified for the Regionals in Bedfordshire. This was an amazing standard of competition and all the girls worked hard and placed well amongst the best runners in the region. In February we took around 40 students to compete at the Wycombe Schools Championship. All our Inter and Senior runners finished in the first wave of athletes across the line. Natasha Rasmussen, Ella Dyson and Harry Turner all finished in the top ten and qualified for English Schools.
CRICKET
Team Successes: ESAA Track & Field Cup: 4 Borlase teams, 54 athletes competed. Junior girls and Inter girls qualified for the Regional finals. District Championships (11 schools): Year 9 girls & Year 9 boys 3rd, Year 10 boys 3rd, Year 10 girls 5th.
CROSS-COUNTRY
In October, the Wycombe Phoenix Cross Country saw some excellent individual results with Jemima Ridley, Noah Fletcher, Harry Turner and Nathan Brammar all medalling. We then entered four teams into the English
This year we renewed our involvement in higher tiers of competition again after opting out last year and continued our involvement in both the Junior & Senior District Leagues, as well as the usual friendly fixtures. As of mid June the U14s are in the Year 9 Cup (narrowly losing to Stowe in round 2) and the U15s progressed to round 2 of the County T20 Cup, where they lost to RGS. Particular mention should go to Year 7 Joe Hoggan, who has not only played for, but is emerging as the leading wicket taker for, the U15s! The U13s retained the Junior Trophy at the end of last summer and are hoping to make it four in a row this year, having already booked themselves into the quarter-final. The 1st XI’s season has to be the most buoyant in recent times and their approach to training has been superb. They beat JHGS in their opening game, after setting 197 off 20 overs (Will Neal 73, Henry Graham 64). For the first time in twenty years they have maintained their involvement into June & July, a big contrast to the short 3 week season that used to be affected by study leave. Mr Chappell 75