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:
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“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)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)