Biathlon
National Schools Biathlon Qualifier
Last Sunday Notre Dame entered a number of senior girls for this National Qualifiers event. Well done girls for representing our School so brilliantly! We now wait until December/January to see who has qualified for the National Finals in March!
Hockey
U 14 and 15 Mixed Team vs Downsend School
Our mixed u14/15 team played a game against u16s this week amidst the showers! It was a great team performance winning 3-1 with goals from Freya, Martha and Julia.
MVPs Freya and Isla.
Netball
U18A & B vs St Teresa’s Effingham
U18A
The team did themselves proud as a number of girls played out of position. The girls were up against a strong opposition in their section with several back to back games to contend with. They remained positive and never stopped working hard. The squad was down 3 players with only one shooter between them, however they moved players around with Ciara S playing Goal Attack. As a team they work hard to keep their motivation up and gave every game their best.
Results:
ND v St T = 20 – 12 loss
ND v Sutton = 11 – 5 loss
ND v Rosebery = 19 – 6 loss
ND v St Peters = 16 – 6 loss
ND v Howard = 16 – 6 loss
ND v Tormead = 15 – 10 loss
U18 B
The girls played extremely well as a squad supporting each other in every game.
They won their first two games 11-9 against Sutton and 10-5 against Tormead.
After an hour’s wait, their next match against Rosebery resulted in a loss 9-16, however we had incurred an injury which lost us some time and the score line would have been closer.
The last match against St T’s was a very close match. We had to move a defence player into attack and it was goal for goal right to the end! We got a turnover to draw the match but not enough time to convert it to a goal to give us a draw. Final score was one goal loss 9-10 to St T’s but we did come away with a very respectable 3rd place medal!
Mrs Hook Appointed Specialist Shooter Coach
I am very honoured to have been appointed as the Specialist Shooter Coach for London Pulse for the coming season 2024/5 working with some of the best shooting talents in the country. Working alongside Head Coach Sam Bird, I will support the specialist coaching of the top young athletes every week over in Redbridge.
Mrs Hook is a former England Roses International Player, Commonwealth Games and Netball World Championships Bronze Medallist.
She is also a Technical Shooting Coach for London Pulse NSL, U23 and Academies, London Pulse Hub Coach and a Shooting Circle Specialist!
REMINDER TO ALL STUDENTS AND PARENTS:
The Teams for the following week’s matches will always be posted on SOCS by Friday afternoon at the very latest, earlier if possible. A polite reminder for both parents and students to check SOCS to see if they have been named in a representative school team to compete on behalf of Notre Dame, which is an achievement.
Captains also need to confirm that their named team is available and ensure the Lead Teacher is made aware by Monday lunchtime the following week of any issues/lack of availability please.
Upcoming Fixtures:
Please remember to check SOCS for information and details about all upcoming fixtures.
