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Football

Football

 All Football Teams U10/11

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P 11 W 6 D 2 L 3 Goals-For 30 Against 14

U11 Fettes Six-a-side Football Tournament

A fantastic effort throughout the games from our team culminated in the final match against Clifton Hall being a cliff hanger-winner takes all! The game ended a draw despite our lads hitting the post 3 times and having the ball cleared off the goal line!

Overall the Academy were equal first on points but placed third on goal difference by one goal! What an exciting end to a brilliant football event. Well done, everyone.Thanks to those who supported the team.

Results:

V Stockbridge Won 3-1,
V Merchiston Lost 2-0,
V Fettes Won 5-3,
V All Stars Won 5-1,
V Clifton Hall Drew 0-0

Victory for the Under 10’s (left) at the Merchiston Football festival. There were some marvellous skills on show as the Academy boys proved to have the winning formula of strong defending, good positional sense and an eye for a well timed pass.

Other Sports

Golf

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U9/11 Scottish Golf Championships

golfOn a fine but cool day in St Andrews, our golf squad participated with excellent skills and concentration. In the U11s, Rory Mellis played a calculated and calm round to finish with a net 62 in fourth place - a fantastic effort!

In the U9s, there were some fantastic swings on show and certainly much promise for the future. Leading Academy boy, Kamran Afshar, finished on an excellent gross 95 for 18 holes along with Henry Hunter and Cameron Mellis on 100, Lorne Scott-Dempster 120, Freddie Cliff 127, Christopher Jacobs 147 and Charlie Edward on 165. Well done, everyone!

Loretto Golf Academy u11 Championships 2008

Rory Mellis attended this 14 hole stableford event at Haddington Golf Club and returned with a first place finish on a gross 62 (36 stableford points). What a fantastic achievement and congratulations, Rory!

Hockey

U11 v Clifton Hall 2008

U10 mixed hockey teamA mixed team of P5/6 boys and girls played their first game against a competitive Clifton Hall side. There was some fine play on display with some excellent passing, dribbling and finishing in front of goal. Everyone showed a fighting spirit in defence and eagerness to play as a team. Clifton Hall won the first half and the Academy won the second half! (There were so many goals the ref lost count!) Well done, everyone! Keep up the hard work in training!

Team: Jessica Smith, Holly Willett, Meabh McGuigan, Abaan Zaidi, Natalie Herbert, Peter Ning, Peter Jacobs, Patrick Christie, Adair Wood, James Carrie.

 

Swimming

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U10/11 Swim Match v Merchiston:

U11 Won 29-15

Backstroke-1 st Nicholas Peters, Butterfly-1 st Saul Melvin-Farr,
Freestyle-1 st Blair Kinghorn,
Breaststroke-1 st Blair Kinghorn-2 nd Rufes Lopes,
Relay-1 st  Peters, Kinghorn, Lopes, Melvin-Farr

U10-Freestyle-1st Christian Marks, Backstroke-2 nd Andrew Boyd, Breaststroke-2 nd Hamish Graham, Front Crawl-2 nd Patrick Edward

U10 Compass Swim Gala:

Overall 3rd
Medley Relay-2nd Reynolds, Cliff, Boyd, Marks
Backstroke-1st Andrew Boyd-3rd Angus Macpherson, Callum Reynolds
Breaststroke-3rd Freddie Cliff-4th-Jamie Bell, Hamish Graham
Front Crawl-1st Joseph Dent-2nd Christian Marks
Relay-3rd-Dent, Macpherson, Graham, Bell

An excellent effort by our swim teams resulted in some fine performances and much fun was had by all.

Athletics

Scottish IAPS Athletics Championships 2008

On a sunny but windy afternoon at Fettes, our Academy team performed brilliantly to achieve fantastic success. The boys and girls also showed an excellent sporting attitude, great team spirit and camaraderie and a real competitive edge especially in closely fought events. A special mention to Blair Kinghorn, Innes Murray and the boys U10 relay team who all broke championship records with Blair receiving the Knight Frank Trophy for an outstanding individual performance taking 0.5s off the previous 150m record! Well done to everyone and thankyou to all who supported the team.

Results:

U10boys: 75m 2nd Sam Mateer 11.6, 150m 3nd Lorne Scott-Dempster 24.0  Long Jump 1st Atticus Melvin-Farr 3.38m High Jump 1st Jean-Claude Houbert 0.95m Cricket Ball Throw 1st Freddie Cliff 37.08m, 4x100 Relay 1st – (Atticus, Lorne, Freddie, Sam) 65.7 (CR)

U10girls: 75m 8th Olivia Walls 12.9, 150m 4th Holly Willett 26.0, Long Jump 3rd Olivia Walls 2.98m, Cricket Ball Throw 6th Emily Fletcher 11.30m

U11boys: 80m 1st Harry Simpson 12.2, 150m 1st Innes Murray 21.3(CR), 600m 4th Sam Hooke 2.08.8, Long Jump 3rd Kelvin Chen 3.56m, High Jump 2nd Kelvin Chen 1.0m Cricket Ball Throw 5th Harry Simpson 32.40m, Relay 2nd place (Harry, Sam, Kelvin, Innes) 62.9

U11girls: 80m 7th Holly Willett 13.9, 150m 7th Esther Jourdan 27.4, 600m 3rd Jessica Smith 2.10.0, Long J ump 4th Esther Jourdan 2.78m, Cricket Ball Throw 2nd Jessica Smith 25.43m, Relay 7th – (Olivia, Holly, Esther, Jessica) 72.0

U12boys: 80m 6th Joshua Mateer 11.9, 150m 1st Blair Kinghorn 21.3(CR), 600m 1st Saul Melvin-Farr 1.53.6, Long Jump 2nd Peter Ning 3.97m, High Jump 1st Saul Melvin-Farr 1.26m, Javelin 1st Blair Kinghorn 21.57m, Relay 1st – (Peter, Blair, Joshua, Saul) 59.1

U12girls: 150m 5th Abaan Zaidi 28.7, 600m 5th Matilde Berkmiller 2.13.3, Long Jump 5th Matilde Berkmiller 3.23m, Relay 8th – (Jessica, Esther, Abaan, Matilde) 78.

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