Sports Report

Sport at Bishop Bavin goes from strength to strength! From pupils representing us internationally in fencing, swimming and rowing, to achieving excellent results provincially, we were once again at the top of our game in 2009/2010! Thank you so much to the Sports department for all your hard work this past year, it is such a pleasure to work with such a dedicated team! Mrs J Lourens, Mrs I Ivanova, Mrs C Page, Mr B Tipney and Mr A Van Deventer, you all give of your time during school, after hours and on weekends, so freely, and without this team, some of our fantastic sporting achievements would not have been possible. We were sad to have Mr D Odendal move to the Estate department after heading our department for many years; however we are grateful he will remain involved in some sports at Bishop Bavin. We must also say thank you to our support staff team of: Michael Elliott, Jarrod Brock, Chad Peterson, Alex Brand and Mpumi Geza- many hands make light work and we are very grateful for your assistance!

There have been a number of wonderful achievements in Sport this past 2009/2010 year which must be mentioned:
Shireen Sapiro once again excelled at swimming, setting 3 new World Records, achieving gold and a silver medals in 200m and 50m Backstroke respectively, at the European Games which were held in Germany in June. She also won the Ladies disabled event at the Midmar Mile.
Brenden Crawford continues to excel at swimming, captaining the Gauteng team and setting a record in the 100m Breaststroke at the SA Champs in December.
Many Bishop Bavin Seals swimmers once again competed both nationally and internationally, achieving wonderful results- congratulations to Theo Verster and his coaching team!

Another fantastic achievement was that Demi-Lee Schultz was selected to represent South Africa at the World Junior Fencing Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, in April – well done Demi!

Team sports also did well this year, with the following noteworthy accomplishments: We also not only won the Co-ed trophy at SA Champs in Rowing again this year, but when our club points and school points were added together we achieved more points than ANY OTHER SCHOOL IN SOUTH AFRICA! This is an amazing achievement- well done to the Rowing Club and especially to our new Head Coach: Mr Ben Tipney who has achieved wonderful things this past season with his rowers and team of coaches. We were extremely proud when he was selected to coach the U23 Women’s SA team too! A number of our pupils were selected for the Gauteng Squad for Rowing, but special mention needs to be made of Scott Donaldson, who has been selected to represent South Africa in Rowing this year- what an incredible achievement through many years of hard work- well done Scott!

Clinton Wernick not only captained the U18 Gauteng East provincial and schools teams as well as the U19 SA School’s team, he WON a Junior International Tennis Federation tournament in July. Amazing- well done Clinton!

We also have a number of pupils representing us both provincially and nationally in sports such as tennis, fencing, athletics and soccer and netball.

Our team sports also did well this year, most notably:
Both our college boy’s soccer teams have a wonderful season record of winning the all of their pool league matches. Our U15’s even made it to the semi-finals of the Gauteng league. Our U 18 and U16 netball girls had an impressive record of wins during the season too as did some of our Prep school netball teams, and our U16’s made the League playoffs,

We would like to thank all who support us in the Sports Department- we are a very important and integral part of the school’s life and without the support of the pupils, parents, the PTSA, David Strange and most especially Father Ellis, we would not be able to achieve these wonderful results. Thank you to all these people who bless and inspire us, in all that we do!

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