Sport
In the academic year 2011-12 Truro and Penwith College had some of their best sporting achievements ever. The Penwith College Football team won the league and cup double in 2011-12, winning Division Two of the British Colleges’ Sport League and the Cornwall Schools’ FA under-18 Cup in two unbeaten campaigns.
The Truro and Penwith College Rugby Academy team reached the final of two international tournaments in 2012. They lost 17-15 in the final of the Middle East Schools International Rugby Festival in Dubai, while winning the trophy for the most sporting team in the tournament. Later they reached the final of the Sanix World Rugby Tournament in Japan, losing 37-24 to Kelston Boys High School, the New Zealand Under-18 champions. In recent years the College Rugby team has won the British Colleges U19 Knock-Out Cup, National 10’s, South West Colleges League and Samurai 7’s, and the Daily Mail RBS Cup at Twickenham in 2009.
In 2012 three Truro College students signed direct from college to the Cornish All-Blacks Rugby team— winger Luke Tidball, back row Matt Bollwell and second row Joab Murphy.
The Truro College Netball Academy had one of their best seasons ever, being County U19 Champions, SW Regional Schools finalists, British Colleges National Tournament Silver medallists, Winners of British Colleges Super League South, and Runners-Up in the BCS Super League National Finals.
Six Truro and Penwith College students were part of the South West regional girls’ rugby team that won a silver medal at the British Colleges Sport finals, and helped the South West region win the Wilkinson Sword trophy overall.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)