Sports Day 2014 A Real
Success
One of the highlight’s
of the school calendar took place today, CHS’ Sports Day and the standard
throughout was high.
The first
part of the morning saw the field events take place. These include shot put,
javelin, discus, long jump, triple jump and high jump. Matt Gilham [Year 10] in
high jump, Lucy Wright [Year 10], Shannon O’Connor [Year 10], Caitlin Green [Year
9] in javelin, Lewis Haliday [Year 8] in shot-put and Johnny Adderely [Year 9]
in discus, who competed for Cheshire Schools at the weekend, all broke school
records in the morning field events.
After the
conclusion of the field events, the whole school made their way out onto the
field to support their friends and colleagues. The conditions were perfect for
running; humid with a firm track. The 200m and 800m were held before lunch with
the standings as followed at the halfway stage.
SH led the
year 7 standings ahead of SDR, JC were in front of DWN in the year 8 standings,
AB were just ahead of GDS in year 9 and MH,
looking to be crowned champions of year 10 for the fourth time, led GXT at the
halfway stage.
100m
The track
events got back underway after lunch with the most prestigious and shortest running
event on the schedule. All the 100m races were tightly contested with Phoebe
Gates [9TW- pictured left] triumphing for the second time today in the year 9 girl’s race.
Lucy Wright [10MH] also won her second event, in what was a two horse race
between her and Abigail Davies in the year 10 girl’s race. However, Wright seemed
to pull out an advantage with 20m to go and won by just under a second ahead of
Davies. The year 10 boys 100m was just as exciting with Jay Mceeler [10MH] proving
too strong for the rest of the field in the final few metres. At one point in the race
the top three were level.
1,500m
The one
event that only a small minority want to complete in is the 1,500m, the dreaded
three and three quarter laps around the track. However, one hand that goes
straight up, when asked who wants to run in the event, is Hollie Massey’s. The all
round sportswomen during her time at CHS has fared very well in the 1,500m,
beating records every year. This year she wanted to beat her time of 5mins 21
secs which she set last year along with the year 9 record, for this distance, which
was set 10 years ago.
Hollie set a
lightning pace on the opening lap, with her lead reaching 60-70m after 300m.
Massey’s lead extended to 200m after lap two. Her sprint finish was faster than
most of the 100m races, we saw earlier in the afternoon. However, it wasn’t
fast enough as she narrowly missed breaking the 10 year record by just two
seconds. She was clearly annoyed with her time, despite lapping her opponents,
saying “I want to run again”. Hollie looked so comfortable when she was running
with a smooth rhythm throughout, long, powerful strides and arms swinging. If
she runs like that next week at the South Cheshire Athletic Championships then
she will be very tough to beat.
Another one
to look out for in the 1,500m was year 8 Megan Sheard she ran 5 min 40 seconds
last year to win and break the year 7 record for the event. This year she led
from the front in the year 7 and 8 girls race and she set a fast pace over the
opening lap. Sheard led by about 10m after lap 1 over the rest of the field.
Olivia Sweeney [Year 8] was evidently struggling after a quick opening lap in
which she tried to stay with the strong Sheard. Sheard looked to be increasing
her lead by every stride and after lap 2 her lead had reached over 30m. She showed
no sign of slowing with her lead extending to 50m, as she took the bell for the
last lap. Megan even had enough energy left to sprint the final 100m and she
didn’t even look out of breath after finishing- I was out of breath just watching
her very impressive run! Megan is a strong all round athlete; she is also a
national swimmer.
The year 7
and 8 boys 1,500m was more of a race. After the first lap the
field were together with Jamie Casey [Year 8] taking up the pace making at the
front. Casey then had a 5-6m lead over Harper [Year 7] at the end of lap 2.
Harper had Casey to aim for and within a quarter of a lap, Harper and Casey
were shoulder to shoulder with a 30m gap to the chasers. On the last lap, Harper
set the pace and led Casey on the back straight and although Casey tried to go
around Harper coming off the final bend onto the home straight Harper had
enough energy to win the year 7 and year 8 race in style beating the year 7
record by over 11 seconds in a time of 6 minutes and 2 seconds.
Ben Horgan
[10MH] put in an impressive display to break the 1,500m record for the year 10
boys. Horgan made his move on lap two pulling out a 20m lead over Ramtin Musah,
Tyler Finch and Bailey Hopkins, all year 9. He was looking to beat a time of
5mins and 2 seconds, which was set in 2007. At the top of the home straight
Horgan had 20 seconds to spare and he finished strongly to comfortably defeat
the record by 7 seconds with a time of 4mins 55 seconds, three seconds better
than his year 9 record last year. Bailey Hopkins won the year 9 race by five
metres ahead of Tyler Finch, whose strong finish saw him finish ahead of Ramtin
Musah.
300m and
400m
Bradley
Oliver comfortably beat his year 9 colleagues in the 300m with a strong finish.
There were also wins for Ollie Byron [year 8] and Eloise Smith [year 10] in the
300m. Eloise was the only competitor in the year 10 girls category which saw
her rewarded with a guaranteed six points. That is what sports day is all
about; representing your form and giving it a go.
Conor
Docherty perfectly demonstrated how the 400m should be run in the year 10 boys
category. The 400m is a sprint event and he did exactly that throughout, from the
starting block to the finish line.
Relays
Year 7 form,
KMA had a clean sweep in the relay events, winning gold in the boys, girls and
mixed relays. Year 8 form, JC managed a double victory with them being denied a
third in the boys relay. MH nearly managed a perfect feat in the year 10 relay’s
but CD denied them in the mixed relay, with Morgan Bratt bringing it home convincingly
for Miss Dixon’s form.
Teacher’s
v Sixth Form
The much anticipated
‘Teacher’s versus Sixth Form’ race concluded the day’s events. Mr de Souza was
issued a yellow card after a false start but once he was away from the blocks
on the clean restart he was lightning quick, giving the PE team a 10m lead
going into the first change. Mr French saw the PE’s lead shortened on the back
straight with the sixth form team eating in to his lead with every stride. Mr
Cross ensued the PE team went into the final leg in front. There were a few
stumbles one at change two from one of the sixth form teams then another from
the other sixth team before Mr Calogirou, a member of the teacher team, consisting
also of Mr Franklin, Mr M Naylor and Mr Watkins, fell on the home straight. Mr
Naylor of the PE team had enough time to slow down and play to the crowd before
crossing the line with a forward roll. The first sixth form team then followed,
followed by Mr Calogirou, who picked himself up from his fall and copied Mr
Naylor’s forward role to finish. The second sixth team then rounded up the
field in fourth.
What everybody
wants to know what are the final standings.
Year 7 was
very tight between the top two, with only one point separating them. SDR won
with 96 points ahead of SH on 95 points and GXE in third.
JC comfortably
won the year 8 standings in front of GSA and DWN.
Just six
points separated the top three forms in the year 9 competition. AB finished on
top with 109 points, three points ahead of GDS with 106 points. FWJ were three
more points back on 103 points.
MH were once
again crowned champions of year 10 for the fourth time in succession, ahead of
CD.
Well done to
all of the competitors and I am sure that the day was enjoyed by everybody
(well nearly everybody!).
Written by Adam Bailey
