Sports News 25 March 2021

Some important dates to diarise:

  • Friday 26 March – Summer Sport ends
  • Monday 29 to Friday 9 April – Hockey and Netball trials
  • Monday 29 March and Wednesday 31 March – Cross Country practices (all runners welcome)
  • Tuesday 6 April – all learners will sign up for Social Sports on offer
  • Monday 12 April – Winter Sports programme starts
  • Wednesday 14 April – Squash starts at Kelvin Grove
  • Thursday 22 April – first term sport ends
  • Monday 3 May – Term 2 Winter sports programme resumes

Indoor Hockey

The PSI Intercity Tournament took place this past weekend.

Nine of our Rustenburg girls participated in the various age-group teams. Congratulations to Coach Sasha Sivertsen and Jodie Blows (Grade 10) who won Gold in the U16 division.

Congratulations to Isla Barbour and Leah Hofmeyr (Grade 8s) winning Gold in the U14 division.

The RGHS players were:

U14 

Seals:  Gold medal winners

  • Leah Hofmeyr
  • Isla Barbour

Sharks: placed 4th 

  • Tatum Malherbe

U16

Seals: Gold medal winners

  • Jodie Blows

Sharks: Bronze medal winners

  • Lucy Kane

Sunbirds:  4th place

  • Rachel Kane 
  • Hannah Dommisse
  • Christy Augustine

U18:

Sharks: placed 5th 

  • Azrah Dick

Swimming

Good luck to Imani Magotsi (Level 3) and Ashleigh Briers-Danks (Level 2) (both Grade 8s) who are competing in the National Level Swimming Galas this weekend.

Water Polo

We wish Hannah Hillman (Grade 12) all the best as she attends the SAU20 Ladies Regional testing Camp on Saturday 27 March. She will participate in Standard National Swimming tests and play matches.

Non-school sports:

Figure Skating

Congratulations to Shan Tong Yu (Grade 8) who participated her first figure skating competition of the year. She placed first in the component program and ice dance and fourth in her free program on 9 and 10 March.

We wish her well as she competes in the Cape Inter-Provincial Figure Skating Championships, 29-30 March 2021.

Surf Lifesaving

Congratulations to Ellen Hodgkinson (Grade 8) on being selected to represent Clifton Surf Lifesaving Club this past weekend at the Pirates Lifesaving Club, Battery Beach, Durban.

The competition took on a team format. Each team was comprised of 8 members, 4 girls and 4 boys. There were a total of 10 events and competitors were drawn randomly to participate in 3 out of 9 events. The 10th event was the team relay sprints. This made for a very interesting competition as the strong boarders ended up sprinting, the sprinters ended up swimming, and so on. The sea conditions were really tough with real bone crunching waves, along with rip currents to contend with on the swim and board events.

Ellen starred in the beach sprint, in the team and individual event finishing 3rd. Congratulations on your very busy weekend, Ellen.