Sport
The College's sports website can be found here: http://www.shiplakesports.org.uk/
Rowing is particularly strong sport. In 2011, the 1st VIII came fifth in the Schools' Head of the River Race and fourth in The National Schools Regatta.Also in 2011 the J16 VIII won the 1st VIII event at The National Schools Regatta. Two boys represented England and Great Britain in 2006..
Cricket, football, hockey, rugby, tennis and squash are also popular sports.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)