Sports
The school has inter-house sporting events, and there are opportunities to enter inter-school competitions. Some school alumni have also gone on to be professional athletes. The sports currently available at the school are rugby, horse-riding, swimming, cross country, athletics, netball, rounders, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, soccer, cricket, golf, tennis and hockey. The schools largest sporting achievement to date is winning all three categories of the Devises to Westminster canoe race.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)