U19 Girls Football Team National Cup - Quarter finals
Team: Jade Mclaurin (Captain), Tammy Copp (Vice Captain), Abbey Wells, Megan Burnside, Megan Downes, Kayleigh Butlin, Amy Woodford, Oliva Letten-Crowe, Heather Stuart, Megan Footman, Amy Thorpe, River Catlin Turner, Lydia Morris.
A big well done to all the Girls in the U19 Football team for reaching the quarter finals of the National Cup. We had some big wins from schools and colleges from all over the country. Including wins at Orton Longueville in Peterborough, Wooton School in Bedford and John Port School in Derby. Finally we met our match when faced with Ormskirk School, Lancashire. We lost 6-2, but the girls showed great positive attitude all the way through the game. Well done girls.
U16 Girls Football - County Cup
Team: Olivia Letten-Crowe (Captain), Lydia Morris (V.Captain), Megan Downes, Amy Woodford, Heather Stuart, Amy Thorpe, River-Caitlin Turner, Megan Footman, Jade Lyons, Kayleigh Butlin, Codie Applebee, Coral Haines, Remmie Stephens, Tasha Cropper, Danielle Mcalistar, Staci-Ann Rojn.
Coach: Miss Kaur
County Cup Rounds
Guthlaxton 6-2 William Bradford
Goal Scorers- Codie Applebee (x2), Coral Haines (x2), Jade Lyons, Tasha Cropper
Player of the Match: Amy Woodford (and for refereeing the game when their ref had to come off).
Guthlaxton 1-0 JCC
Goal Scorer- Kayleigh Butlin
Player of the Match: Megan Footman
Guthlaxton 1-1 Countesthorpe
Goal Scorer: Coral Haines
Player of the Match: Joint- Megan Downes /Remmie Stephen
Guthlaxton 4-0 Beauchamp
Goal Scorers: Amy Thorpe, River C Turner, Olivia Letten-Crowe, Lydia Morris.
Player of the Match: Heather Stuart for her side line support whist having a broken hand.
The Girls are now in the semi finals of the County Cup to be played soon, with the final being played on 11th April at Manor Road, Oadby.
U16s Girls Badminton
Players: Danielle Smith, Danielle Boat, Kirsty Seal and Sheena Mistry.
The girls have played all their regional games and have managed to successfully secure a place in the Leicestershire Schools Badminton Finals to be held in April alongside the successful Guthlaxton U16s Boys team.
So well done to both girls and boys for making the final.
Miss Kaur
Superstars 2011
The months of February and March saw the eagerly anticipated introduction of the Superstars event for the sixth form students. The event saw students break off into pairs and attempt to complete a number of skill, speed, stamina and strength sporting challenges. The event started well with the teams working hard to complete the challenges, and creating an interesting tie at the top between a number of pairs, all aiming for the chance to become the Guthlaxton Superstars 2011.
After two weeks of competition, the final event saw pairs trying to complete 600m in a rowing machine in the fastest time possible. The eventual winners for the ladies event were Miss Kaur and Megan Burnside, along with the final men’s winners Mr. Black and Mr. Baldwin, proving that the PE Department are still on top of their game…for now! Special praise must also go out to Jade McLaurin, Amy Brown, Kathryn Reynolds, Tom Gilbert and Mark Jones. Well done to all who took part.
Ollie Quail
Under 16 Badminton - National Cup & League Update
Centre Parks National Schools Championships
On Monday 28th February, the U16 Boys Badminton team travelled to Nottingham University to represent Leicestershire in the Regional round of the Schools National Championship, with an all expenses paid trip to Centre Parcs beckoning for the winners. A full strength team of Oli Hoult (1), James Herbert (2), Sam Koelling (3) and Adam Langeveld (4) were in confident mood following their 5-0 whitewash of the Leicestershire schools in the previous round.
The amazing facilities at Nottingham University were matched by the amazing standard of Badminton that took place. Competing against schools representing Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Derbyshire, the Guthlaxton Boys won three of the four games comfortably, losing only to a very strong Lincolnshire team, containing an England representative along with three other high quality players.
All of the Boys played exceptionally well, and the quality of Badminton was outstanding. There were superb singles performances by Oli Hoult and James Herbert, backed up by strong doubles play from Sam Koelling and Adam Langeveld throughout the tournament. The boys were a credit to Guthlaxton College and I congratulate them on their tremendous efforts on the day; unfortunately they just failed to qualify for the next round.
Leicestershire League
The initial stages of the regional Leagues are now coming to a close, with the Under 16 team having gone undefeated throughout and therefore comfortably finishing top of their respective division. There were particularly strong performances against local rivals Beauchamp and Countesthorpe College; in fact, the boys only lost one game in all of the matches played! They will now go on to compete against winners of the other Leicestershire regions.
| POS | TEAM | P | W | L | F | A | +/- | BP | Pts |
| 1 | Guthlaxton | 5 | 5 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 38 | 5 | 20 |
| 2 | Lancaster | 5 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 14 |
| 3 | Countesthorpe | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 16 | -8 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | Soar Valley | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | Lutterworth | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 24 | -24 | 3 | 3 |
6 | Beauchamp College | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | -16 | 2 | 2 |
League Standings as at 8th March 2011
Ian Bateman
Published on Thursday 31st March 2011 at 09:00