AWARDS
Coopers Company & Coborn School, from Upminster in Essex, have become the first winners of the State Sports School of the Year in the 2009 School Sport Magazine Awards.
Judges decided that the Essex sports college, who reached the final stages of a host of national competitions, demonstrated “a high-level of achievement at national level in a range of sports, both for boys and girls, and therefore fully deserved the award.”
Coopers were one of eight winners in the annual awards, now in their fifth year, run by School Sport Magazine, published today.
In another new category, Whitgift School from Surrey have become the first winners of the Independent Sports School of the Year.
In a successful year for the school, Whitgift were crowned national boys U16 hockey champions, both indoors and outdoors, U13 Bunbury Cup cricket champions and U13 Rosslyn Park National Schools Rugby Sevens winners.
Primary School Sports Team of the Year were Bengeo Primary School in Hertfordshire who triumphed in the 2009 National Kwik Cricket Tournament at Headingley.
Their victory was all the more remarkable as the team have no cricket square at their school and had never even won their local district competition before.
Winner of the Girls Sports Team of the Year was Maltman’s Green School U11 gymnastic team, from Gerrard’s Cross in Buckinghamshire, who have been unbeaten in artistic schools gymnastics competitions for three years and this year notched up no less than four national titles.
Southend High School for Boys were deserved winners of the Boys Sports Team of the Year for winning the English Schools Cross Country Cup for the second year running with the lowest points total since the competition started in 1984.
Georgia Peel, 15, from Farnborough Hill School in Hampshire, won the sporting schoolgirl of the year award after taking an incredible eight seconds off the 1500m English Schools Athletics Championship record.
In a double triumph for schools athletics, Clovis Asong, 14, from Manchester’s Our Lady’s Catholic Sports College won the sporting schoolboy of the year title after breaking the junior boys 400m record in a time of 48.86s.
Gordon Campbell, from Winsley Primary School, near Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire was named Sports Teacher of the Year.
Phil Tusler, publishing editor of School Sport Magazine, said: "This has been a remarkable year for competitive sport in schools and the awards are a celebration of that.”
“We had hundreds of nominations this year and deciding the winners has been a difficult but very rewarding endeavour.”
Full details and further information about all the award winners can be found in the new edition of School Sport Magazine, published today.
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