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:
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“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)