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.
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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)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“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)