April 2010
28 April 2010
Catherine Dodson 2T3 has been selected to represent the East District U14 mixed hockey team. This is the first time a Knox pupil has been selected to represent the East District for many years, usually missing out to Edinburgh School pupils. Good Luck.
22 April 2010
Jesse Smith, who left Knox Academy last year, is currently carving it up on the snowboarding circuit with his most recent success winning the Brits Home Run title in Laxx, Switzerland.
A quote from the Scotsman newspaper reads;
"But laid-back Smith takes it all in his stride.
Surprisingly, he's not even targeted the next Winter Olympics in Russia in four years' time.
He's more focused on scraping together the cash to head back to the Continent as soon as possible. "The Home Run brings boarders from all over the world, including professionals," said Smith.
"I was nervous and it was crazy at the start. There were big names being interviewed near the start line. Nobody bothered about me."
For more info follow this link.
Good luck in the future Jess
21 April 2010
Sean Noon (2G2) is a top class sportsman following in the footsteps or should I say tyre marks of Scotland’s most acclaimed cyclist Sir Chris Hoy. Sean is a top road cycler and currently sits top of the Scottish Youth Road Series.
This year Sean has taken part in many national events such as the Scottish National Time Trials in Fort William, the British Championships and the British National Cyclo-Cross in Birmingham where he came 19th out of the 36 competitors.
Once a month Sean is part of the Regional School of Racing and competes in the National School of Racing twice a year. He is very committed to his sport and hopefully will go on to be a top road and track cyclist.
13 April 2010
Knox Academy played touring team Worthing RFC at Neilson Park, the home of Haddington RFC, on Saturday 10th April and were convincing winners with a result of 108-5.
The match was well attended by parents and tourists and club president Andrew Cunningham welcomed the supporters and commented on the great standard of rugby that Knox Academy has shown and he looks forward to the boys joining the club next year.
This team has been very successful this year and have only losed on one occassion. The team has a fantastic support network of parents and hopefully they will move on with them when they start playing club rugby next year. A massive thanks has to go out to all parents for their support this year and in particular Leo Robertson for providing medical assistance on match days, Mr Ingram for keeping the match statistics, Mr Denholm for looking after the kicking tee, Mr Black for helping set up the pitch and the mothers (Munro, Mitchell and Stuart) for providing the players with refreshments.
On the field the players showed some great running rugby and farocious tackiling. The only thing that lets them down at times is everyone showing up! Man of the match was Harvey Blake who scored four tries and was closely followed by Mark Robertson and Paul McClung with three a piece. Captain Connor Monro scored two tries along with Neil Black and Lorne Black and Struan Stuart scored one each. Paul was on song with the kicking duties slotting thirteen from fifteen and Connor scored one from one (a very unusual sight!).
Good luck to the players and hopefully they can have some success at the Youth Games in May and next year in the U15 Brewin Dolphin Schools Cup.
01 April 2010
Traprain held onto their Swimming Gala crowns for another year after a fine day in the pool on April Fools Day.
After the individual events Traprain had a 4 point lead over Lammerlaw going into the team Relays with Garleton sitting back in 3rd. However for the relays this year house teams had to consist of a swimmer from each year group (S1-3). Also their were three extra fun races that ensured it was not only the strongest swimmers that came out on top but the smartest minds.
However Traprain managed to hold onto their lead and were the overall champions in the pool.
Special mentions must go out to 3 swimmers who won all their individual races Struan Stuart 2T1, Katie Archibald 2T3, and Kathryn Couper-White 3T1, Shannon Wilson 2L2 who took part in her first swimming gala and Gabby Jackson 3G2 who was the only pupil representing Garleton in her year so had to take part in all the races.
1st = Traprain
2nd = Lammerlaw
3rd = Garleton