Sports
Sports are a major feature of life at Woodbridge. There are many playing fields including cricket squares, a heated sports dome with Gym facilities, Astro turf for either tennis or hockey, an athletics track, rugby and hockey pitches. Boys and Girls have two compulsory games sessions a week lasting one hour and one and a half hours. They must participate in the main game of the term in the lower school but from year 11 boys and girls have a choice of Games.
During the Michaelmas term, the sport curriculum is dominated by Rugby Union for boys and hockey for girls. During the Easter term hockey is the main game. During Summer term, there is a more relaxed atmosphere with Cricket being the main sport as well as athletics. Pupils may also enjoy the occasional game of rounders or other games such as baseball and handball.
Other sports include sailing (which takes place at the nearby River Deben), riding, fencing, football, golf, netball, rowing, swimming, tennis and windsurfing.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“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)