ISA Cross Country Double Team Victory!

It was a double celebration for two teams when our cross-country runners slipped and sloshed their way around the muddy ISA West London Regional Finals course on Friday 13^th February achieving several top 10 places across multiple categories.

The girls’ in the Year 7 race who achieved 5^th, 6^th and 7^th places and the boys’ in the Year 10 & 11 race who came 7^th, 8^th and 9^th, were declared the winning teams for the U12 Girls and the U16 boys respectively. Individually, Isla (Year 10) came 3^rd in the Year 10 and 11 girls’ race with Rafe (Year 8) 10^th in the Year 8 and 9 boys’ competition.

Director of Sport, Simon Bradbury commented: “I think it’s a really important discipline to be able to run because for a lot of team sports, if you want to be a centre mid fielder in football, a scrum half in rugby, a centre in Netball, for example, if you can’t run and sustain that running for a good period of time then you are going to struggle to play those positions. It’s one of those events where students might be a bit apprehensive and a little bit nervous at first, but once they come through the finish line they actually say ‘I really enjoyed that!’”