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:
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)