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Sporting achievements galore!

Treloar School and College are celebrating the end of term with an array of sporting achievements.

Boccia

David Smith’s sporting year culminated with being named BBC South Disabled Sports Personality of the Year (2007), after a string of successes in boccia (a form of bowls and Paralympic sport).  David’s achievements include, double World Champion at the World Cup in the singles and team events, winner of both the British Nationals and Championships and is part of the number one ranked Great British boccia team.  David remains unbeaten for last 18 months.  What an achievement! 

Current and former Treloar School and College students made up 13 of the 14 players that represented the South East Region at the DSE National Boccia Championships in Liverpool recently.

The team secured four first places in total: Therese Hunt won the senior BC3 (ramp) class, Jess Hunter the junior BC3 class, Andrew Morgan the junior BC1 class and Matthew James the senior BC1 class. Emma Turner gained  second place in the senior BC4 class and Paige Tabone came third in the junior BC2 class.

The team came second overall in the team championship, after entering only eight of the 16 classification groups and lost out on the first place by only two points!

New players Habib Cham and Cailean Tadden both had a great first-time experience of a competitive sports weekend with Habib winning one of his two games.

Swimming

The Treloar swimming squad successfully competed in several competitions this term.  The most significant the Regional Qualifying Gala in October, which resulted in Nathan Crowe, Craig Dewart and Anna Pakenham qualifying for the National Championships next year. 

In October Treloar’s took their largest ever squad to the Aldershot Gala. All eight swimmers did well and gained a total of 20 medals between them!  The squad came 4th overall.

The squad were among 14 other swimming clubs that took part at a recent swimming gala at Guildford Spectrum which resulted in the following medal wins: Anna Pakenham - silver and bronze, Sonny New - gold and bronze, Elizabeth Sewell - silver and bronze and Richard Kirk - gold, silver and bronze medals.  Both Faye Longley and Luis Coward also swam well and achieved personal best times!

At the end of the event a number of individual trophies were awarded. To the team’s delight, Richard Kirk was awarded the Bernard Owen Challenge Cup for the highest number of points (mens), Ellie Sewell won the Bernard Owen Junior Trophy (girls) for her high score and a special Endeavour Award was presented to Faye Longley for her achievement.