SPORT Rugby, Hockey and Dunbar Football by Mr Sam Hewick, Director of Sport What a busy term! Fixtures returned with full force and it has been great to see everyone enjoying competitive team sport again.
Boys’ Rugby
The rugby season has been typified by the effort, improvement and attitude across the club, which has resulted in some notable performances. I have been particularly impressed with the U16s’
Engagement in rugby has been at the highest level
development this term. They have committed
for a number of years, which does buck the trend
well and really earned some excellent results. The
of many other schools. This is combined with
U14s and U15s have learnt what it means to play
a number of boys achieving success outside of College with London Irish, Wasps, Berkshire, and Lambs Rugby. It has been great to see pupils enjoying the noncontact version of the game, as well. I do hope they have enjoyed this opportunity to represent the College in competitive team sport. I look forward to running a senior non-contact team next year. I would like to highlight Boys’ Rugby Captain Rory Hogan at this point, who after suffering a nasty injury in the first half of term, showed great resilience to return to captain the side in the night game against Shiplake. On that night, I feel we demonstrated what ‘Team Pangbourne’ truly means: epic heart and defence from the team, wonderful support from all pupils, and superb help from all the staff. It has meant events like this can happen again, hopefully with some working floodlights next year! We must say ‘goodbye’ and ‘thank you’ to Mr HC
in a Pangbourne side and I hope they continue to
(Mr Habasune-Cowdery) who left us at the end
progress. The senior teams have battled every
of the Michaelmas term. He has been superb
week, and in a different year we could have
working with the U14s and Dunbar rugby players
been looking at a very different set of results.
over the last few years.
