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:
“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)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (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)