Netball

With a total of 28 teams, 222 matches played, 166 wins, 8 draws, and 48 losses, the 2021 Autumn term saw a competitive and successful Emanuel netball season.

Highlights include the U13As achieving gold medals in Thomas’s Clapham, Harrodian, and Ibstock tournaments, as well as making it to the January quarter finals for the ISNC Cup, and Final round of the Sisters in Sport National Cup. The U14As won Silver at the Ibstock tournament as well as finishing 6th at Surrey Finals. Both U16A and U15A qualified for the Surrey finals and finished in 4th and 6th place. The Senior 1st reached the semi-final of the Sisters in Sport Plate, playing Redmaid’s School, unfortunately narrowly missing making it through to the final stages.

The term allowed for some excellent achievements amongst our Emanuel netballers. Honourable mentions must be made to the following players:

Bo (7EB) was selected for U13 Surrey Development Academy, and Willow (7EB) was selected for U13 Surrey Performance Squad. Zara (8MM) and Tilly (8HV) were selected for U13 Surrey Satellite Academy. Daisy (9HEC) was selected for U15 Surrey Academy, while Freya (10FRL) was selected for U17 Surrey Storm hub. Isabella (11DGA) was selected for London Pulse South West Hub, and Libby (U6RJB) continues to play for London Pulse and Crystal Palace. Full colours were awarded to Bella (U6RJB) for contributing two full seasons within the senior 1st team. This season’s Senior captain, Rosie (U6SPP) received the Sutcliffe Cup award for most outstanding contribution to netball. Displaying excellent leadership within her team, vocal and supportive, Rosie holds herself as a true sportswoman and role model to those following up through the school.

Girls’ Captain Report

This year has been a very successful year of rowing so far, with some great results. We started off the year with Scullers Head. We then went on to race Fours Head, where we had two fours and a quad entered. The first four came 4th out of 16, the fastest school crew in the category, and the J16 four also came 10th in the same category (beating many J18 crews!). We then jumped from fours to eights, kicking off with Wallingford Head. The first eight came 6th, despite another crew crashing into us, causing us to stop for a whole 38 seconds!

Going into 2022, 5km erg season came and nearly everyone in the squad achieved personal-best times on the rowing machine. This helped prepare us for more long, cold head races such as Quintin Head and Hampton Head. At Quintin, the first eight came 5th and the J16 eight came 7th. At Hampton Head, we had an impressive three eights racing, with the first eight coming 2nd out of 13 — beating some big names like LEH and Tideway Scullers — while the second eight came 3rd out of five. We then finished off the head season with Schools’ Head: the biggest race of the head season. The first eight came 5th, the J16 eight came 3rd, and the second eight came 5th.

The spring term culminated with some 2km ergo tests, with around 80% of the squad all achieving new personal-best times, filling us all with lots of excitement for the summer term of racing. The girls’ squad are all excited for Strathclyde rowing camp to improve our technical skills in preparation for regattas season, which will hopefully be full of great results!

Boys’ Captain Report

The season got off to a strong start with several good results at Scullers Head of the River. We then continued our training in small boats, working up to Pairs Head, which was sadly cancelled due to poor weather. At this part of the season, we hung up our sculling blades and moved firmly to sweeping. We then raced at Fours Head, where we had a strong showing, finishing 7th overall, a mere four seconds back from 5th place. It was at this point in the season that we moved into bigger boats, whilst regatta season had a pause, and we could complete winter training.

We came back strong from Christmas break and training ramped up as we ultimately started preparing for Schools Head of the River. What followed was an increase in training volume and intensity as we prepared to race the Championship course against the best crew schools in the UK. We had a very impressive showing at Hampton Head in coxless fours where we finished third overall. Quintin and Hammersmith Head were a good stepping platform where we could mix up the order of the crew to ensure we were as ready as we could be for the big race. Race day came by and we put in a colossal effort, finishing 10th in our category and 25th overall, vitally putting us in contention for Henley qualifying. It was great to be up near the top of the league with all the other great rowing schools where we belong, and hopefully we can push on and get a good result at National schools later this year and qualify for Henley Royal Regatta.