Sports Teams
Latymer have prestigious sports teams. The football team do complicated trials to play in the Enfield Schools league, and a girls' football team also exists and experiences much success. There is a boys' team for each year up to Year 10, although Year 7s do not start until January. Year 11 and Sixth Form combine to make the First and Second XI. There are also rugby, cricket, hockey, netball and tennis teams. A lot of practices take place during lunchtimes, with matches predominantly on Saturday mornings for football and rugby, although there are matches during the week in the afternoon. All other sports are played predominantly during the week. Hockey practice is done at the nearby Astro pitches at the Gladys Aylward School, within walking distance from school.
The sports played during PE include basketball, tennis, rugby, frisbee, football, basic gymnastics, volleyball, health-related fitness, athletics, and cricket. The football first XI has participated in the Gothia Cup, a tournament also involving the youth teams of Major football sides like Wolves, Swindon, Crystal Palace, Colchester, São Paulo, Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, F.C. Copenhagen and OGC Nice.
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