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:
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)