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U12 Girls’ Hockey
Lottie Gillett, 3E
It’s been a mixed season for the Thirds with the team
starting off with a defeat to Brentwood. However,
with amazing coaching from Miss Mugridge and
Mrs Fryer-Green, the team started to get better
at working together. In our second match against
Haileybury, with everyone settling in to their
positions, we drew in a tight game.
With more training and team bonding the team became stronger,
improving massively in every match we played. With our incredible
goalie, Sarah Dean, and strong defence at the back by Neha Pillai
and Lottie Gillett, strikers struggled to get past us. Excellent play in
the midfield from Ellie Joyce, Sienna Bhumbra and Aimee Bromfield-
Brown meant the team put up a great fight, Sarah Sayid was brilliant
upfront, getting the ball into the D within seconds of the centre pass.
In our last match it certainly paid off with a whopping 10-0 win, a
great way to end the season! Prizes went to Aimee Bromfield-Brown
who was Most Improved Player, Lottie Gillett, Top Goal Scorer and
Neha Pillai, Players’ Player. Player of the Year went to Lottie Gillett.
I would just like to say a huge thank you to our incredible coaches
Miss Mugridge and Mrs Fryer-Green.
U13 Girls’ Hockey
Grace Kumar, RN
This year has been an outstanding
season for U13 Girls Hockey.
We won every game and have
displayed many team qualities.
A strong defence made up of Anja
Schumacher, Mia Malik, and Clementine
Jamieson, a supportive midfield of Kiera
Murphy, Emily Harris, Amber Bufther and
Grace Kumar with a threatening attack of
Charlotte Peters and Katie Vallance were the
main components in our most convincing
games. Games were often won by a
considerable goal difference and we proved to
be too a strong side for our opposition every
time. There was consistent goal scoring from
Katie Vallance, Emily Harris, Kiera Murphy,
Grace Kumar and Charlotte Peters. The
Player’s Award was won jointly by Charlotte
Peters and Mia Malik; Most Improved Player
was Clementine Jamieson and Player of the
Season was jointly won by Grace Kumar and
Kiera Murphy. Grace Kumar was the highest
goal scorer with twenty four goals; Emily
Harris came in as second highest scorer with
thirteen goals. Altogether, we scored sixty
goals, only conceding eight. We are very
grateful to all our coaches who sacrificed
their Saturday mornings to come out in the
wind and rain to help us achieve our best. We
are also grateful to our parents who came to
cheer us on.
We are all so delighted to have represented
the School for hockey, a sport that saw Team
GB do us all so proud with a gold medal at the
Rio Olympics.
U14 Girls’ Hockey
Harriet Wood, U4S
We started off the season a bit slowly as most of the
girls hadn’t played since last year and the 11-a-side
format was new to most of the team. As we started
training more, we started to get a grip on the stick
and ball.
Our first couple of matches were OK but we knew we could perform
much better. As the season went on, players became more developed
in hitting the ball and passing it long distances, therefore, we were
able to start transferring the ball especially round the back. Eden
Risby (Coach’s Player of the Season) was a strong defender and took
the ball from right defence up the line out pacing whoever came
across her. Katharine Buckley (Most Improved Player) has grown in
hockey strength and flourished in the last couple of matches. Eleanor
De-Renzy Channer (Players’ Player) was always on the post and her
skill came in handy when getting past her opponents. There were a
couple of matches that will go down in history, such as the one against
Queenswood. This was a very close game and they had some really
strong players but we were able to keep them back and win 2-1. We
worked as a team and that’s what led us to victory.