Sport
The school is involved with a wide range of competitive sports with impressive results and is amongst the top swimming schools in the country. The Elite Swimming programme has produced pupils who have competed nationally and internationally, breaking over one hundred British and English records. Cassandra Patten won a swimming bronze at the 2008 Olympic Games, and at the 2012 Olympic Games fifteen year old Ruta Meilutyte won the gold medal in the 100m breaststroke for Lithuania. The number of pupils who have been selected to swim for England and Great Britain is now well into double figures and the swimming programme is offered in a partnership with the Plymouth Leander Swimming Club.
As well as swimming, the school also has an elite modern pentathlon and fencing academy and has a dedicated on-site shooting range with full facilities. The running club or "Pumas" practise on and off site and the show jumping team practise at established stables within easy reach of the College.
Other sports at the College include rugby union, rugby sevens, hockey, cricket, athletics, cross country, badminton, basketball, canoeing, golf, squash, tennis, netball, Rugby Fives, sailing and kayaking.
The rugby team has also had some great successes in the recent past, with the 2008/2009 rugby team losing only one match, to Truro College, the eventual winners of the Daily Mail cup. The cricket team has also performed to a high standard, beating the famous Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) both times in the last two seasons,.
The Whiteworks Outward Bound centre on Dartmoor has a 20 bed bunkhouse and the school owns further grounds featuring rugby and cricket pitches at Delgany, Derriford, about two miles north of the Ford Park campus.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn’t. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)