Sports
SHSB is well known for high success in sport on a borough, county, national and international level. In 2010, the school came 4th in the World Cross Country Championships held that year in Slovenia its third international event. On June 22nd 2012, the school celebrated winning the Borough Athletics Competition for the 31st year in a row with some students achieving national records for their age group. While Cross-Country and athletics are the schools strongest siding their football, hockey, tennis, rugby, basketball and swimming teams have also achieved county and national success.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“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)