Champions of Champions
24 students from QE recently competed in the British Colleges’ Sport national finals at Loughborough University and enjoyed great success.
At Loughborough, champions from 7 regions in England, plus Wales and Scotland, competed in 14 different sports to determine the British national champions. Over 2500 young people took part in this year’s championships and the QE students, having already won their respective regional titles, represented the North East in events across 6 different sports. Remarkably, 8 of them came away with 11 medals - 9 gold and 2 silver - in 4 different sports.
In cross country, Tom West, Glenn Donaldson, Josh Phillips, Liam Fletcher and Sam Wood won gold medals as the winning college cross country team. On the golf course Steph Peareth was part of the gold medal North East girls’ team and Lucy Atkinson was a member of the North East trampoline team that won silver medals. In the pool Kyle Boyek won 3 individual gold medals and was part of the North East swim team that finished in silver medal position. In addition, Andrew Penney, Laura Goram and Taigh Connor-Watson put up creditable performances in the badminton competition and the girls’ rugby team were impressive against very strong opposition.
Paul Carroll, QE’s Sports Co-ordinator commented:
“To have students qualify in 6 of 14 sports was outstanding; winning 9 gold medals was an absolutely superb achievement. These results made QE one of the most successful colleges at the games and therefore one of the best colleges for sporting opportunities in the country. All the students were a credit to the College, their families and themselves during the whole weekend – their sporting ability was there for all to see but their behaviour, enthusiasm and sense of teamwork were equally as impressive.”
May 17, 2010