Making a Splash Milsted’s swimmers enjoy success
Netball 2011 was a very successful year for St Albans School netball teams; more girls than ever were keen to represent the school and did so with enthusiasm and commitment. The 1st VII had a number of victories in the District League with wins over Sandringham 14-5, Sir John Lawes 27-8 and a very close match against St Albans High School where St Albans School came out on top 23-20. A defeat against a strong Richard Hale side, 10-20, and a nail biting draw against St George’s 24-24 saw the team even more determined to finish the season in style with a convincing win over Roundwood Park School, 14-9. The 2nd VII had a season of very close matches, many being decided by just a couple of goals. A match against Richard Hale ended in a 10-13 defeat and another against St Albans Girls School 11-16. The season finished with a riveting match against St George’s, it was end-to-end netball and the winner was to be decided by the final whistle, St George’s scored the winning goal with seconds to spare. The match finished 11-12 in St George’s favour.
District Plate Final On Tuesday 4th October the 1st VII netball team travelled to Sandringham School to compete against Loreto School in the District Plate Final. St Albans School started with confidence and purpose, they dominated the first quarter 6-0 and didn’t allow Loreto to gather any momentum. The second quarter saw St Albans School take a 10-3 lead, a few passing errors had allowed Loreto to capitalise on our mistakes. The standard of netball from St Albans School proved too much for Loreto when the girls raised their game in the third quarter taking a 14-3 with excellent shooting from Gohar Khodadoost and Charlie Meredith. The game finished 16-4 with superb defensive work from Steph Parrot and Jess Smith. Molly Maguire and Izzy Batchelor dominated the centre and linked well in attack and defence. An overall team performance and thoroughly deserved victory. Player of the match was Gohar Khodadoost. EMC
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In future, both netball and swimming can take place in our own facilities
The Albanian 2012
The six galas this year have highlighted the strong foundation of talent that will help develop school swimming with the opening of the new School pool. Under the captaincy of Chris Milsted, the squad developed into a positive and focused group that supported each other during each race. Across six evening galas, each age group competed against ten local schools that all have their own pools. The Senior’s won an improvers award for gaining more points overall than last year. They scored 220 points, coming 4th behind Berkhamsted (269 points), Merchant Taylor’s (265 points) and Haberdashers (233 points). Several individuals showed their particular strengths, most notably Nick Shone in the butterfly and Bernie Zondagh in the breast stroke. Billy Dawson, Chris Williams, Luke Bevis and James Bates are all very talented swimmers, which is very encouraging for next year. The Intermediates also came fourth, with a total of 201 points, whilst the Juniors came sixth, with a total of 176 points. However, there were some excellent individual performances from Robbie Lightowler, Charles Oliver, Jash Pooni, Ross Ferreira, Jordan Sweeny and Jamie Scragg.