Sport
The school is often noted for its sporting ability, having achieved frequent success in a number of sports. Over 83% of the school's boys represent QEGS in one sporting event or another. The most popular sport is Rugby Union, followed by Hockey, Cricket, Athletics and Basketball. Hockey in particular has experienced substantial growth in the school throughout the last decade, and is now close to matching Rugby Union's dominance internally. In 2006, the under-15's Rugby side reached the Daily Mail Cup final, but were unable to match the achievement of the 1996 U-15 team who won at Twickenham. In 2009 every age group won the hockey 'Yorkshire Cup' for the first time in the school's history with the under 16's going on to reach the national semi-finals, only to lose to Whitgift School. As well as plenty of sporting opportunities, the School also gives students the opportunity to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme. The picture shown is the Sixth Form Centre for sixth formers.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn’t. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)