Rupert House Sports Day

Every year Shiplake College sends a group of Y12 students to help run local prep school Rupert House sports day. This year they included newly appointed prefect for 2012-13 Kit Bowerin. All the students represented the College well, but Kit was singled out for a special mention by accompanying teacher Mr Rendell who reported

The behaviour of the students who accompanied me to Rupert House today was excellent. They performed their duties well and displayed a visible enthusiasm which I am sure made a huge difference to the pupils competing. The organisers even suggested that this was the best group of Shiplake students they had seen!

But I feel special mention must go to Kit Bowerin. Saddled with the most demanding tasks he spent the day rushing backwards and forwards, setting up race after race to such an extent that one might have been forgiven for assuming he was responsible for running the event. When his duties were done he chose to assist the others in theirs. The organisers singled him out with a special thank you and I would like to do the same. Exceptional dedication, initiative and enthusiasm.

Well Done Kit.

Junior House cricket

Junior House cricket – With so many rowers in the House, fielding a Junior cricket side proved difficult, but as ever the House spirit won through, Milo Taylor captained our VI in a competitive and hard fought game. Alongside 14A cricketers O’Conor and Martin, U15 B players Borg-Neal and Miarli faced their first competitive game of the season with cricket virgin van der Lely who scored 2 runs on his opening ball! O’Conor (22) and Martin (5) opened, Taylor came in at 3 (31 not out) and the rest put together a total of 82 in 10 over’s on the board. Despite some fine bowling by O’Conor, Taylor and Martin Welsh House ran out eventual winners, but all enjoyed the game and again it was good to watch a game played in such good sport.

Athletics Championships

House Athletics Championship - on a baking hot afternoon the Everett team performed really well. Anthony Miarli broke 200m school record (25.5), Anna Proctor girl’s long jump record (3.48m), we won many medals and everybody gave of their all. The Girls came 3rd, the Juniors 3rd and the Seniors 3rd.

Rugby Selections

Congratulations to - Greg Cooke who has been selected for the Berkshire School of Rugby squad. Max Chandler has been selected for the Oxfordshire U16 Long squad, the selectors were so confident in his ability he has been waived through the assessment sessions.

Senior House Tennis

Senior House tennis – well done to Teddy Hewins and Kit Bowerin who won all of their games in the first pair competition, Luke Maguire and Henry Corke also played well as the 2^nd pair despite tennis not being their major sport they represented the House well, overall we came Joint 2^nd, a fine effort.

House Athletics and Cricket

Last Friday saw the opening afternoon of the Inter House Athletics competition. It was good to see almost the whole House out there competing.
Anthony Miarli and Sam Coleman were again our fliers, with blistering pace in the 100 and 200m. Y9 did themselves proud, Ben Chambers in particular running in all three events despite a pulled muscle.

The Senior House match against Welsh got off to a difficult start, with only 9 players available to begin with. But a couple of hasty late substitutions meant although we lost we did pull off a fine fielding display to make them fight hard to reach the runs needed. Zachy Mettawa conscripted from rowing, along with other non regular cricketers Alex Turton, Chris Kerrigan all played their parts well. Ben Francis, Luke Maguire, Louis Tindall, Henry Corke, Henry Breckenridge, Teddy Hewins Cameron Dempster and Alex Sanderson never gave up and I was proud to see them handle a difficult match and eventual defeat so sportingly.

Chapel Wardens

I am delighted to announce that James Wilson and Frankie Paolella-Kemp have accepted Reverend Cousins invitation to be Everett House Chapel Wardens for 2012/13. I know they will both do a great job looking after the spiritual and pastoral needs of the House.

London Wasps Elite Player Development Group

Congratulations to Max Chandler, following his excellent performance at the Harrow Rugby festival he has secured his place in the London Wasps EPDG. There are only a few places awarded and Max has done really well to gain his place, here are just some of the comments from the Academy Director ‘Very pleased with your performance today in the tight and loose. Very effective and contributed well in all your games. Your contribution in the loose should not be underestimated as this set us on the road to recovery with your competitive approach to the contact area. Good line speed in defence – Well Done’ All of us in Everett wish him well and will follow his progress with interest.

http://www.wasps.co.uk/AboutAcademy.ink

Exeat weekend

Despite it being an exeat weekend, several Everett pupils had a busy time. Max Chandler enjoyed some very competitive rugby as part of the Wasps squad at the 12’s festival at Harrow. They enjoyed good wins over several strong sides, but lost out to a strong Gloucester team and were narrowly defeated by London Irish to take a commendable 3^rd place.
James Baker, Ben Markham and Milo Taylor all had a great time on the history trip to Krakow, an enjoyable but also educational trip.

Dom Marsh and Jamie Mottram were part of a U15 crew who competed well at the Wallingford regatta on Sunday, finishing a creditable second in the final.

Prefects

I was delighted to see four Everett pupils appointed school prefects for next year.

Kit Bowerin, Michael Glover, Rose Parker and Anna Proctor.

Congratulations to all, I am sure they will do a great job.

James Wilson and Olivia Peacock both made the final round and were commended on their interviews. They both have a lot to offer next year and will I am sure will be offered the chance of other roles of responsibility.

UAE Sports Tour

UAE SPORTS TOUR

Several members of Everett House were part of the successful Cricket and Tennis tour to Dubai. Kit Bowerin and Harry Cheesewright enjoyed some competitive tennis fixtures. Kit prepared the following report for me ….. Tennis a squad of 6 played both doubles and singles tennis matches at different location across Dubai and also Abu Dhabi championships. First match was against Dubai College in which the 1^st pair of James Bailey and Kit Bowerin managed to pick up two wins with 2^nd and 3^rd pair close to gaining a similar outcome.  The hosts running out winners by six matches to three. Next up was a rigorous training day at the stunning Meydan Race Course Tennis Academy, where the boys had the chance to be coached by the UAE’s top coaches. The squad then had the chance to compete in the UAE U16 Singles Open at the Zayden Tennis Club in Abu Dhabi. Playing on the courts which hosts an ATP event the team played superbly. James Bailey was reached the quarter finals and Yeem Chanthanawan and Harry Cheesewright also made the second round in the singles tournament. Further matches against the PT Academy and Jumeirah Tennis Club, played under the shadows of the magnificent Burj Al Arab, set the boys up nicely for the highlight of the tour in which Harry Cheesewright and Kit Bowerin both managed to pick up wins as a pair to finish the tour on a strong positive for the upcoming season.

Meanwhile on the cricket field Milo Taylor put to good use the training and hard work in the nets during the spring term to produce some excellent batting displays. A full report is available on the school website. He was deservedly voted Man of the Tour and showed why he is such a valued member of the 15A XI and I look forward to hearing how his season goes now the summer (!) term is here. He is a talent to watch for the future and will I am sure ably follow in the footsteps of our Seniors. His stats for the tour were a batting average of 33 and 3 wickets taken, and a top score of 62 against Rendcombe College in a Day/Night game in Al Daid.  He also made an excellent 38 not out against the British School Abu Dhabi.  Kit writes

During the Easter holidays fifteen cricketers, six tennis players and three members of staff travelled to the United Arab Emirates for eight days for a combined U16 Cricket and Tennis tour.  In cricket Shiplake played Rendcombe College from Gloucestershire and two local sides: British School Abu Dhabi and the Young Talents Cricket Academy, Sharjah School.  Cricketer’s came close in matches against high quality opposition. Milo Taylor proved the best of the batsmen with 133 runs at an average of 33.25 and strong bowling and fielding skills from Myles Everett helped bring so much extra skill and experience to the young Shiplake cricket squad and show it’s true potential on the UAE tour.