U13 City of Sheffield Water Polo Club Festival

Sunday 14th July saw the U13 Water Polo take part in the City of Sheffield Water Polo Club Festival. 

The tournament was made up of 12 teams with SBSJ playing a total of 10 matches from 9:30am-5:30pm. It was a very well run tournament with some really strong Water Polo clubs involved. We were the only school team to be there and we played some fantastic Water Polo at times. In the end we finished 5th place, something we are really proud of considering it was a club tournament and with only having a small squad due to players being unavailable. A brilliant experience for our students and another positive to come from the day is some of our girls have been invited to attend the North East regional tryouts! 

Click here to watch Amelia Brooksbank finishes off a well worked goal

1st Radcliffe
2nd Birmingham
3rd Chester Romans
4th Rotherham
5th St Bede's and St Joseph's
6th Sheffield sharks
7th Grantham
8th Chester Saxons
9th Watford
10th Sheffield Stingrays
11th Sedgefield
12th Paragon 

Well done to all involved and thank you for giving up your entire Sunday to represent the school!

James Rocchio
Amelia Brooksbank
Sam Adams
Charlie Spence
David Akoli
Emily Burton
Bhumi Mistry
Severn Annakin
Kyle Smith  

U18 Yorkshire Schools Champions for 2nd Year Running!

Saturday 11th May 2019 was the U18 Yorkshire Schools Water Polo Championships held at St Peter's, York. This is the second year of the competitions existence.  

In 2018 we were crowned champions and I am happy to say we were once again the winners of the competition. Unfortunately Bradford Grammar School did not field a team so it was just the three schools this year meaning it was only played over one leg. 

Both St Peter's and Ampleforth have improved massively from last year and we had to work hard for the victories. In truth we started off slow in both matches but we can be happy with our overall performance on the day, scoring some really good goals and for being defensively solid throughout.  

Results

SBSJ   4 - 0   Ampleforth
SBSJ   4 - 0   St Peter's

Player of the Tournament - Thomas Cokewright 

Extra match

SBSJ  2 - 1  Ampleforth 

Final Placings

1st - St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College
2nd - Ampleforth
3rd - St Peter's 

Well done to our U18 team on being crowned Champions of Yorkshire for 2019. Thank you for giving up a large part of your Saturday and good luck to all those who will be completing their exams. 

U18 Water Polo team (Yorkshire Champions)

Thomas Cokewright, Theo Cokewright, Stefan Giangregorio, Fran Rocchio, Sam Chewins, Harvey Weston-Beyer, Jastin Barrientos, Bartlomiej Zbik, Jake Benson, Miguel Arevalo, Dane Simora.