Physical Education

The rounders season has began with the first fixture of the East Cornwall League being hosted in Liskeard.

Congratulations to the girls who played rounders tonight, especially the four Year 8 players who played with the Year 9 girls.

Year 9 Team
The year 9 team were two players down and as four of the team were in year 8, they were up against it before they got on the rounders pitch. The new team gave it everything they had in the first game, losing 5 – 7 against Callington. They then found their feet and had a great game against Liskeard winning 7 – 5 1/2.

Year 10 Team
The year 10 team had two great games which they won with confidence. Their fielding and batting skills were excellent. The girls won both their games, Liskeard 3 -5 and Callington 10 – 3. Well done and we look forward to more successes this season.

Mrs Doyle

Congratulations to Josh Blake and Will Dax who competed in the Senior Boys English Schools’ Cross Country Championships held in Blackburn on Saturday, 14th March. Out of 300 competitors, William Dax came 75th and 2nd in Devon, whilst Josh Blake came 151st and 6th in Devon. Out of 45 counties, Devon came 11th. A brilliant effort all round!

It was a very successful day for our under 15 Girls cricketers on Monday following the confirmation that they are the third best team in the county following a Bronze medal at the Devon County Cricket county finals held at Exeter University. With some outstanding individual and team performances the girls beat Uffculme, Paignton and Plymouth College on route to their Bronze medal only narrowly loosing out to finalists Bideford and South Dartmoor.

Tavistock College Year 11 student Tate Budge travelled to Paignton in the last weekend of February to compete in the UK ITF (Taekwondo) English championships, hoping to take a step closer to inclusion in the UK Squad travelling to Moldova this summer for the European Championships.

Tate did brilliantly and won gold in both under 16’s and under 18’s male second degree black belt patterns.

Due to the European competition rules, all entrants must compete in the age group that they will turn in the year of the competition. So despite only being 15, Tate has had to step up to the under 18s category as he turns 16 later this year. Becoming English under 18’s champion (along with British under 18s Champion back in October) makes him the top ranked competitor for under 18s second degree black belt patterns and closer to his goal of making the UK Squad once more this summer!

Tate will now travel to the UK ITF Finals night later this month where his place in the UK Squad will be decided.

This weekend Emily Morley, aged 15, in Year 11, went to Saltash in Cornwall to compete in the Final League Championship event for U18 Karate black belts.  Emily was the youngest competitor and the only female. She had a great event, taking on all the older male competitors and came away with a gold and silver medal.

Congratulations Emily! What a success!

‘Tavistock College student, Tate Budge, won at the British Taekwon-do championships last Saturday and is now British under 16’s sparring champion and British under 18’s 2nd degree black belt patterns champion! He has been on stage with John Bishop at Plymouth Pavillions to celebrate, and met the comedian back stage after his show for some photographs and a chat about the sport and becoming a world champion.

Emily Morley is a member of DRKJ Karate group in Plymouth Crownhill where she has recently achieved her 2nd Dan at Karate Jutsu after many training sessions. Emily has also just taken away five gold medals for fighting in a tournament in the U15 – U18 age category. Well done Emily keep up the hard work!

Chantel Whiting, age 12, started boxing at the age of 11 and hasn’t looked back since. She has recently been selected to compete in Guernsey and Portsmouth representing the Western Counties boxing team. Chantel trains 3 time a week at the Mayflower Amateur Boxing Club and competes most weekends. She has been recognised as an up and coming talented boxer and boxing for the Western Counties at such a young age so early in her career is very impressive. Few female boxers have achieved this honour at such a young age. We look forward to seeing what the future holds for Chantel!

Stephanie Hutchins, aged 15, has many talents when it comes to sport but she excels at cricket. Stephanie has recently secured a place on the Devon team; she has been for England trials and is now on the scouting watch out list and being monitored. She has been selected for the Devon Elite squad and won bowler of the year for the Devon U15s. Her team recently came 2nd in the UK Plympton 1st regional Cup and won the Plympton 2nd Cup. Stephanie certainly has a very exciting sporting career ahead of her and it is all down to her hard work and dedication to sport.