Sporting Success at Owen's!

The Brewers’ Company administers the FE Cleary Schools Fund, a charity which provides funding for educational, sporting, musical and other extra-curricular projects at Dame Alice Owen’s School, for which state funding is not available.

Next week the Trustees of the FE Cleary Schools Fund will meet to review the grant awarded in 2024-25. Among many other notable outcomes, they will hear about an impressive year of sport at the School as reported by the Headteacher, Hannah Nemko:

“Your support has ensured we have not had to turn down the offer of a competition due to financial constraint and has allowed us to continue to invest in our outdoor spaces...Our PE Technician stepped up…to take a lead in a girls’ leadership in cricket opportunity which in turn saw the girls compete in, and win, the ‘Chance to Shine’ national competition in July.

“We have continued to work with an external Girls’ cricket coach, though the English Cricket Board and…to see a huge increase in the number of girls involved with cricket…We are now proud to have a Year 9 girl who is the youngest person ever to play for Middlesex County cricket.”

“Tony Meekin gave beginner golf lessons to over fifty Year 7 students in September and October, as a way of introducing them to golf at Owen's…The lessons will be offered again to those joining us in September. Using the same template as that used for the lesson, 21 Year 7 students and form tutor Tony Meekin undertook the Make A Wish Golf Challenge, hitting hundreds of golf balls into paddling pools to raise £783 for a wonderful cause.”

Sporting achievements 2024-25 include:

Athletics

• 3 students Herts County Champions (Girls shot put, boys discus, boys 200m)
• 1 student Herts Cross Country Champions and represented Hertfordshire
• Y7 Girls, Y8 Boys, Senior Boys and overall combined Champions District Cross Country Champions
• Inter Girls Regional Cross Country Finalists
• 2 students have represented Hertfordshire in Athletics (discus, multi event)
• 1 student representing Herts in English Schools Athletics Championships (discus)
• U16 Girls Crowned County Champions (for the first time)
• U16 Girls won County League and were awarded the Silver Salver
• Inter Girls Regional Track and Field Runners Up

Badminton and Tennis

• U16 girls National Schools Badminton Runners Up
• 4 students selected to represent Hertfordshire at Badminton
• U14 Girls Tennis National Schools Finalists
• U14 Girls County Tennis Doubles Runners up
• 3 students representing Hertfordshire at Tennis

Football, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Basketball and Cricket

• Under 12 girls football District Champions
• 1st XI boys football District Champions
• 1st XI boys football County League Champions
• 4 students have represented Hertfordshire in Football
• U13, U15 and Senior District Netball Champions (league and tournament)
• Senior County Netball Plate runners up
• U15 Girls County Netball Plate Champions

National Awards

• Represented Ireland in Water Polo Championships
• Representation for England at the Dance World Cup
• National U16 Badminton Runners Up
• 1 student representing England in National Squash Team
• 2 elite level National competitions gymnasts
• 3 students representing England in European Karate Championships
• 1 student in GB Cycling team
• 1 student representing GB in Freestyle Kayak
• U18 Powerlifting 17th in the Country
• Dame Alice Owen’s ranked 112th School for Sport in the Country
• 1 student competing at National School Athletics
• 1 Student National Irish Dancing Champion