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Christ top trumps in U14 Inter-Borough Finals
17th July 2009
U14 Christ Boys and Girls were worthy winners in the 1st Yr 8 & 9 Inter-Borough (Richmond and Kingston) Secondary Schools Volleyball Championships Finals held at Tiffin Girls School last Wednesday.
Preparations began back in January when 30 teams from 15 schools from Kingston and Richmond received 4 coaching sessions from Richmond Volleyball coaches and competed in borough finals. The top four boys and girls teams from each borough final earned the right to compete in the ultimate Inter-Borough showdown.
In the boys group Christ A (Richmond champions), faced Chessington A (Kingston Champions), Southborough, Teddington, Christ B and Chessington B. Christ A secured their place in the final winning 4 matches. The other finalist was Chessington A who finished on top of the group winning five matches but in the final it was Christ who showed more consistency and hitting power and won 25-18.
In the girls group Christ (Richmond champions) faced Coombe Girls A (Kingston Champions), Tiffin Girls, Teddington and Coombe B. In the final Christ were favourites against Coombe A having won all their group matches and in a very close battle Christ can out on top 25-22.
Mike Skinner, Competitions Manager for Richmond and Kingston Schools Partnership commented: Richmond Volleyball delivered a very comprehensive programme involving 30 secondary schools (300 students) and achieved with great success the 1st u14 Inter-Borough volleyball tournament. The interest of younger people involved and the standard of play has sufficiently increased. Everything about it has been good natured and very positive.
Richmond Volleyball schools coordinator said; Well done to all the teams! We have seen another fantastic programme with over 300 young people engage in the sport. The interest by young people and teachers is rapidly growing demonstrating there is much scope for volleyball to continue to develop in these London boroughs. The culmination of a lot of hard work from the coaches, teachers and venue hosts since January is to be recognised and we would like to thank them all. Richmond Volleyball is fully committed building on this success by being at the heart of developing this Olympic team sport and we now look forward to delivering the volleyball programme for year 10 and 11 in the winter term.
Boys
(1st) Christ A (2nd) Chessington A (3rd) Christ B (4th) Southborough (5th) Teddington, (6th) Chessington B,
Girls
(1st) Christ, (2nd) Coombe Girls A, (3rd) Tiffin Girls, (4th) Coombe B, (5th) Teddington
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