Sport
U15 ‘A’ Girls
Under 15 ‘B’ Girls
The Under 15 girls had an excellent season overall, conceding just 16 goals and scoring 41 from 17 games. This was down to superb goalkeeping from Louisa Shriver, and a strong defence of Charlotte James, Izzy Toner, Fiona Kennedy, Rebekah Beaumont and Jemima Baker (when she wasn’t side-lined due to a broken ankle!).All the girls can be really pleased with the part they played, as everyone contributed something in every match.
For the second year running, KGS Hockey has ample enthusiasm and numbers to field an U15 ‘B’ team. This is nothing short of an excellent achievement by the girls and they produced a fine year, playing 10 fixtures, winning 4 and losing 6. After a heavy defeat to Reigate U15 ‘A’ early in the season, the girls picked themselves up, dusted off the losing blues and narrowly lost two consecutive games, by one goal – Wellington College 1-2 and Portsmouth Grammar School 1-2. Their first win came with an excellent performance against West London Free School, with two fine goals from Anouk Vaessen and Tilda Blohm. This was soon followed by an excellent losing performance to a strong St. George’s College - the score line could have been a lot worse, if not for the outstanding performance of our keeper, Emily Perkins, who was easily the player of the season. Holly Godliman added some strength to the midfield later in the year, and our final four games resulted in two great wins for the team, against Surbiton High School and St. Mary’s, Ascot, the latter, a great 3-1 victory. Jessie Howard was easily the most improved player this season, being a rock at right back, and her performance against St. Mary’s, Ascot, in the final game of the year, was outstanding. With such a fine year under their belt, the future looks bright for senior hockey at KGS.
We began the season with a tight loss against Wellington, although soon upped our game to compete against a strong Portsmouth Grammar side, and came away with a 2-2 draw. At this early stage in the season, it was encouraging to have such a close match with St George’s, our long-term rivals, whom we were determined to beat at some stage! Unfortunately, although we fought hard and probably deserved a draw, we came away with a 2-0 loss, with their second goal coming at the end of the match from a breakaway attack. Against Wageningen in October, we lost our first game 3-1, although we came back strongly later to beat them 1-0, a result the whole team was really pleased about. These two results clearly had a great impact on the team, as we then went on a streak of goal-scoring against Tormead (1st XI), Latymer Upper, and WLFS, where we scored 18 goals in these matches and conceded nothing. This was partly due to the solid midfield of Charlotte Whittle, Eva Gray and Jasmin Werner, whilst Eloise Pheasant, Eleanor Larby and Holly Godliman were excellent in taking chances we created in front of goal. However, we then lost the return fixture against St George’s, 2-0, which again, was closer than the score line reflects. We then went on another winning streak to end the season on a high, against CLFS twice, St George’s U14s (who went on to become national champions), Surbiton High, St Dunstan’s and St Mary’s Ascot – our last game of the season, and our last game as a team. Overall, it has been a great season with many positives we can take out of it. It was a shame to lose Jemima Baker to injury halfway into the season, although when she came back we realised what we had missed! Eva Gray, 4MB Squad: Eva Gray, Jasmin Werner, Fiona Kennedy, Eloise Pheasant, Charlotte Whittle, Rebekah Beaumont, Eleanor Larby, Holly Godliman, Izzy Toner, Charlotte James, Louisa Shriver, Anouk Vaessen and Jemima Baker.
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KINGSTON GRA MM AR SCHOOL 2015
L O’Brien Squad: Harriet Cronin, Nadia Dayem, Thea Eady, Ellen Garard, Zoe Sim, Anouk Vaessen, Hannah West, Lucy Tait, Jessie Howard, Tilda Blohm, Kitty Jackson and Emily Perkins (GK).