County Upper Basketball Academy
In addition to the main school sports activities County Upper also hosts a dedicated Basketball Academy. The academy has its own Sports Director with students from across East Anglia attending the County Upper Sixth Form. Students are accommodated locally, attend the school and regularly enter regional and national-level competitions, tour the USA and have acheived scholarships to US Basketball Colleges. The U17 Basketball Team were finalists and eventual runners-up in the English National School Championships in 2012.
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