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:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)