Sports
Sullivan Upper participates in various sports, including rugby, hockey, golf, volleyball, tennis, and chess.
The school won the rugby 2001 Medallion Shield, with current senior Irish International and Ulster player Darren Cave playing in this team. Other notable past players include David Erskine, a former senior Ireland International. In 2009 the school won the 2nd XV cup for the first time, beating Royal School, Armagh 14-12. Impressively, the school won the Medallion Shield for the second time in 2011, after being well known for their strong team relationship and game play.
In hockey, Sullivan won the 1993 Burney Cup beating Banbridge Academy after sudden death penalty strokes. In 2006 they reached the final again — losing 4–2. Former team members include Irish Senior International player such as Mark Raphael. In 2009 they also reached the McCullough Cup final for the first time in the schools history. In 2010, the team reached the semi-final of the Burney Cup but lost to Campbell College.
In Cricket, the school reached the School's Cup final for the first time in their history in 2009, but ended up losing by nine wickets to Foyle and Londonderry College.
Sullivan have a golf team competing in various competitions. One notable previous member is Rory McIlroy, currently World Number One golfer on the PGA Tour.
Read more about this topic: Sullivan Upper School
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)