18 January 2024 Abingdon Sport Abingdon’s U18s have had a fantastic start to the basketball season, showing great determination, team spirit and skill with noteable wins against Radley (69 to 32), Stowe (48-42), and Radley (41-35). Well done to all involved especially to the captain Matthew for his leadership skills both on and off the court. We have great strength and depth in the club in the lower years which bodes well for future seasons too. Abingdon Squash Success This has been Abingdon’s busiest squash term ever, and our most successful; we have remained undefeated through our entire fixture list! We have beaten Stowe (twice), St Edward’s, John Hampden Grammar School (twice), Cheltenham, Marlborough, Radley (twice) and Bloxham (twice); and we drew 3-3 with Eton. We also won our group qualifying for the National Schools’ Championship. We have an exceptional 1st team, and also a number of talented juniors coming up through the ranks. We look forward to the next round of the National Schools next term. Thanks as ever to our brilliant coach Ben Rosec. A slam dunk! Cross Country The cross country club has gone from strength to strength this term. The quality of training has increased thanks to coach Dan Studley and we’ve seen good performances from all age groups. We have a very promising Junior team led by Daragh and a good influx of keen 3rd Years. Both Junior and Intermediate teams qualified for the regional round of the ESAA Cup, finishing 4th and 5th respectively. In December, our Senior team placed 5th in the ESAA National Cup final, with Quinn winning individual silver (his brother Rowan (OA 2022) represented Great Britain at the European Championships in Brussels). Rowing Owing to unseasonably bad weather, much of our time this term has been spent training indoors. Nevertheless, we have managed some positive outcomes. At the beginning of October, the J15, J16 and Seniors raced at Reading Small Boats Head and, after some good performances, managed a total of 8 category wins. We have also heard that 8 of our rowers have successfully achieved the 2k and 5k ergo times, qualifying them to attend the Great Britain team trials in February and wish them the best of luck.
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