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Springtime Sporting Success!
from Vision
This term has once again seen so many sporting achievements in school. Our year 9 girls came 3rd in the Manchester Athletics Championships with some great performances in different events. We had 1st place in the 60 metres hurdles with Zara Tonye, 1st place in the 60m sprint with Radiyat Adeosun and 2nd place in the high jump with Melissa Ndiogulu. We were also 3rd in the relay with Zara, Radiyat, Valerie and Maya.
In the boys competitions, our amazing year 10 and 11 team came out winners in the Manchester Indoor Athletics Championships! There were some excellent performances with a list of our results below:
Back in January, the British Cycling Pathway organisation came in to school to carry out an early talent identification session with the girls. The day was centred around aspiring the girls to experience the amazing facilities on offer in Manchester, making them aware of the different sessions available after school, promoting girls being active outside of school as well as identifying potential talented athletes in the sport to further advance the girls talents.
The day was a great success with all girls demonstrating fantastic efforts in the testing and the instructors were blown away by the enthusiasm on display and were amazed at the commitment and willingness to experience a new sport. As a result from the day, fourteen Our Lady’s students were selected and identified out of all
Manchester secondary schools to attend the next phase of the Talent ID programme, giving them the opportunity to attend a further enhanced testing day in Manchester at the national cycling centre! All girls have been contacted and are looking forward to the challenge ahead, representing the school and striving to be the next Olympic sprint cyclist, we wish them lots of luck!
Further to this success we are pleased to confirm that our girls year 8, 9 and 10 football teams have reached the quarter finals of the Manchester Cup hopefully progressing even further in the competition.
Finally, a huge well done to Terry Bondo who has officially joined Blackpool Football Club! We wish you every luck in the future at Bloomfield Road, Terry!
