Sports News Pages

Netball V Dauntseys In the final week of term, our UIV (Year 9) girls were lucky to play a netball fixture vs Dauntsey’s. Both schools thought it would be great for the girls to get a match, given that their netball term was so disrupted due to lockdown and COVID.

On 25th June, as part of St Mary's celebration of world wellbeing week, there was a staff vs Sixth Form rounders match.

Congratulations to our Tennis Academy on reaching the national stage for the School of the Year category in the 2021 LTA Tennis Awards on 24th June. Jonathan Hayes (Director of Tennis) shares his thoughts on the award process...

Marlborough Sport Fetival On Tuesday 15th June, the UVI (Year 13) participated in the inaugural Marlborough Festival of Sport. The Lacrosse and Netball Teams were particularly excited to participate, having only had one other fixture in the past year.

Radley On Sunday 13th June, the UVI (Year 13) lacrosse players endured the heat playing an intense lacrosse match against Radley College. The game was close, with the deadlock broken by a goal coming off the Radley goalie into his own goal; by half time it was 6-2 to Calne but Radley came back strong with their toughest team all out on pitch

Equestrian June We had a record number of entries (just over 230) and pupils from 22 schools competing in our annual school Horse Show this year. Over 220 rounds were jumped over 11.5 hours!

Rugby workshop On the afternoon of 27th May, a group of Year 10 girls had the opportunity to take part in the TRY Engineering programme run by Bath Rugby. The programme is designed to give students some practical engineering tutorials exclusively designed by engineers at Dyson, as well as an introduction to Rugby, delivered by Bath Rugby coaches.

On 27th May, LV (Year 10) pupils took part in an inter-school athletics meet at Marlborough College, competing against teams from Marlborough College, Clifton College and Royal High School, Bath, alongside the boys’ competition.

Isgtl Tennis On Saturday 15th May, 12 pupils were selected to represent St Mary's at the Independent Schools Girls Tennis League (ISGTL) tournament at Bradfield College.

Congratulations to the girls in UIV (Year 9) who successfully completed the Tennis Leaders' Award course this week with the St Mary's Calne Tennis Academy.

Equestrian Update St Mary's Calne equestrians have been very busy competing in events around the country.

Niamh Reid Year 7 pupil, Niamh, has been selected to race in this year's Shetland Pony Grand National, in aid of The Bob Champion Cancer Trust.

Alice Gates Alice (Year 11) kicked off her season with a flying start, winning the BE100 Ou18 at Bicton. Alice was 3rd after Dressage in a very competitive section, she then rode a fabulous double clear inside the time to move up to 1st place.

On the evening of 23rd April, our Sports Scholars were lucky enough to hear an inspiring talk from Olympic medallist, Jazz Carlin. Jazz talked about her journey from learning to swim all the way to her Olympic success.

Equestrian round up The Equestrian Team at St Mary's were in full swing over the Easter Holidays.

Congratulations to Eva-Rose (Year 10) who has been selected to train at the U15 England Hockey Performance Centre.

Tennis Academy award Following the announcement that St Mary's Calne Tennis Academy (SMCTA) won the County Education Award, I am delighted to inform you that the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) has now awarded SMCTA with the South and South West Regional Education Award.

Tennis coaching St Mary’s Calne Tennis Academy has, for the second time, been awarded the Lawn Tennis Association’s County Education Award for the best school programme in Wiltshire.

The Fifth Form Company Lacrosse gave the year group an opportunity to play some competitive lacrosse in a modified version of the game with new rules.

Company Netball Last week we welcomed the girls back to school and to sport. Taking advantage of still not having any inter-school fixtures, we ran some Company competitions.