Glasgow Schools Netball Tournament

One of the Netballers favourite days of the year took place last Tuesday at Bellahouston Sports Centre. Glasgow Schools Netball Festival involved S1 teams taking part in the morning session then S2 teams in the afternoon. The S1s played a league style tournament with the team at the top crowned champions. With more teams in the S2 competition they were split into two leagues initially then there were semi finals and a final to decide the winner. 

S1s

The S1 team have been making good progress in Netball since the start of the year. The girls are awaiting confirmation on other teams league fixture but they are likely to be in the final 4 playoffs for the Glasgow Schools  Title. Well done girls! Anyway, back to the tournament. In the league competition set up SGG had to play every team. Games were short and sharp, 10 minutes. The girls started a wee bit sleepy but improved with every game. They played some great Netball and worked very well as a team. The girls played 5 games, won 4 and drew 1. This resulted in the girls coming second, only to loose out on goal difference. Whitehill won the tournament, well done to them. They just scored a few more goals than SGG and this was the team that SGG drew with in the first game. The girls should be proud of their performances during the competition. A couple of games were close but they worked hard in defence and in attack to make the most of possession and get the ball to the shooters. The girls recieved some nice comments from the umpires who were in charge of the games, after watching their games they said the girls played some great Netball. One umpire was very impressed with Lucie’s performances and said she was close to getting player of the tournament. Olive received the ‘intercept of the day’ award from the organisers for her performances at Goal Defence. Congratulations Olive, you deserved it! Overall second in their first tournament is a really great result for the S1 team, keep up the hard work girls! 

SGG - Whitehill Draw

SGG - St Thomas Aquinas Won

SGG - Bannerman Won

SGG - Holyrood Won

SGG - Shawlands Won

S2s

The S2 team have been working extremely hard this year. Their experience at the Inrernational Festival in Paris in October where they came third School in the competition proved to be a massive step forwards for their standard of play. Since then the girls have been playing even better. The S2 tournament on paper to me looked like the best tournament at the S2 level in the 5 years since Netball has been going at SGG. Teams such as Holyrood who have just beaten the current Scottish Champions in the Gold Section of the Scottish Cup. Hyndland who have a number of their team playing for Broomhill A Club team. Other teams such as Shawlands and Bannerman to name a couple have some excellent players in them, players playing at club district level which is a very high standard. It was good to have such great teams together for a tournament. 

As stated before the tournament was initially split into two leagues then the top two teams from each of those league progressed to the semi finals then finals. The second years arrived to Bellahouston just in time to see the S1s collect their silver medals, they shared their congratulations and this gave them even more motivation to begin their own competition. 

The team started with three wins in the league and won their group stage. They played well together in the initial games and progressed to the semi finals against the team who finished 2nd position in the other league, Hyndland. The girls had lost to Hyndland in their first league fixture of the year back in October so they knew the massive challenge ahead. During the game the girls played some fantastic netball and at the end of the 10 minutes they had won 14-5. This meant that they progressed to the final against Holyrood 1. The Holyrood 1 is undoubtably one of the best teams in the country so the girls went in to the final knowing that they needed their best to be competitive. They certainly brought their best to the court, the game was much closer than when they had met over a year ago in the S1 League. Holyrood ended up winning 11-7 and deserved their victory. This meant SGG came home with the silver medals and they should be extremely proud of their performance throughout the day, a fantastic display of team work. The Glasgow District Wildcats coach told the girls at the end of the day that they should all go for district trials in August, what a compliment to receive! The whole team played well from Orlagh at GK all the way through to Millie at GS they worked extremely hard for each other. Before receiving their silver medals the organisers gave out some additional awards. Millie Soutar won the ‘shot of the day’ award for her performance at Goal Shooter. She was excellent in each of our games. Additionally, Abbey won the main award ‘Player of the Tournament’ what a fantastic achievement! She was outstanding all day, congratulations!

Below is a photo of the girls with their silver medals! Next year they’ll be entered into the Scottish Cup for the first time, so keep up the hard work.  

SGG vs Holyrood 2 Won

SGG vs Jordanhill Won

SGG vs Bannerman Won

Semis

SGG vs Hyndland Won

Final 

SGG vs Holyrood 1 7-11

Glasgow Schools’ Cross-Country Championships

Tuesday 20th February 2018 will be a day which will never be forgotten. The annual Glasgow Schools’ Cross-Country Championships took place at Netherpollok, Pollok Park. The school had a record number of entries for the event which is amazing considering we were missing a number of runners due to illness and injury. The event is a massive date on the sporting calendar. Only the Glasgow Schools Cross Country and the Glasgow Athletics do we have such a large number of our pupils out of school. Here’s how the races unfolded:

S1 Girls

Lucie, Olive, Maebh and Sara kicked off the days events. After seeing the course the girls nerves settled down considerably. There was mud but there was no big hills to contend with. Lucie has shown good promise at cross-country despite being in her words “a sprinter”. Her top 15 (14th) finish at the event should give her a lot of confidence to go on and place even higher up in future races, this is the third best performance we’ve had from an S1 girl in the history of SGG. All girls came inside the top 50 with Olive 47th, Maebh 48th and Sara 49th all packing well together.

S1 Boys

The S1 boys have been flying in training. They’ve been working hard and impressively there were 10 entries for the race due to the quality of their efforts in school. David was an impressive 15th in the race. Equally impressive were: Adam H 27th, Isaac 36th,Jed 37th, Joel 40th, Calum B 44th, Cameron W 53rd, Daniel 56th, Anndra 68th and Sam 83rd. Look out for these guys in the future, if the keep up this rate of hard work and effort then they’ll get their just rewards.

S2 Girls

Similar to the S1 Boys this year the S2 girls have really been impressive in everything they’ve been doing in PE and sport at SGG. Their enthusiasm, effort and dedication to improving their performances in sport has been admirable to say the least. The girls had a full team out for the race and were in high spirits after going better in training this year. Peggy-Nan was first over the line in 8th, Abbey 33rd, Cerys 38th, Ameilia 39th, Kerry 47th, Millie A in her first experience of Cross-Country 57th and Sophie P 68th. The girls packed amazingly well and were rewarded with the bronze team medals! Congratulations to all the team.

S2 Boys

The boys were a couple of men down for the event coupled with Fionn having a horrendous cold. This didn’t stop the boys from putting in a great performance. Fionn despite the cold came home in a very impressive 20th position, he was backed up by Rico (first XC) 28th, Connor 30th, Seumas 66th and Flynn (first XC) 68th. The boys will be pushing for a team medal next year if they keep progressing at the rate they have over the last year but they will also need Robert, Aaron and Odhran all fit and healthy. 

S3 Girls

One of the most impressive individual and team performances of the day came from the S3 Girls. Shona Carey who was 12th in S1, 6th last year went on put her best performance to date finishing with the Bronze medal. She ran with such confidence and kept up a frantic pace with the girl from Hutcheson who finished in Silver, it was an amazing to watch. The rest of the girls in the team also put in their best performances to date with: Beth 15th, Chloe 21st, Niamh (first XC) 31st, Abigail 37th, Mirren 40th and Kristen 50th. The girls were rewarded team silver, absolutely deserved after a brilliant team performance. 

S3 Boys

The boys team this year was a mixture of those who’ve done cross-Country before and those that are new to the event. The team was with out Robaidh who was a bronze medalist last year but this didn’t deter this year’s team at all. Duncan again put in a great performance finishing in 11th, Patrick 19th, Kyle (first XC) 29th, Sean 38th, Lewis (first XC) 39th, Luke 49th and Jack(first XC) 51st. There have been massive improvements made by the S3 Boys this year and I’m looking forward to seeing them fighting for team medals next year. 

Senior Girls

Amy Craig was competing in her last Glasgow Schools Cross Country. Amy has been an excellent performer at these Championships for the school over the years. We wish her all the best for her future endeavours. On the day she put another great performance finshing in 8th position in a high quality field. Iona was 41st and Abigail 42nd. 

S4 Boys

Well the last race of the day which involved 4.5km of cross country running was very entertaining. As with previous years the S4 Boys ran together with the Senior S5/6s but were running their own competitive race. The S4 Boys were motivated to do well in this year’s event after ‘missing’ last year’s event. This proved good fuel for the fire as the boys went out and absolutely dominated the team competition and took home the Gold medals and the Team Trophy. This meant that SGG retained the team title that the senior boys won last year, two in a row! Aidan Tittmar who has been working very hard in training over the last couple of years ran the race of his life to finish in 2nd position. This is his second indiviual medal at Glasgow Schools Championships after picking up Bronze in the 400m last summer too. He was backed up by Alasdair Campbell who was competing in his first ever competitive cross country race. He worked his way through the field to finish with the Bronze medal!!! What an absolute brilliant result, we are delighted for you Alasdair. Alexander also worked his was through, and finished with a top 10 placing, his first ever in his 4 years at the event. What a time to do it, he finished 9th. Findlay Dickson was 10th, he’d been off the day before the race and has missed a lot of training due to illness so we appreciate him lining up for the school. Gilles was 15th, his best performance at the championships, he’s a lot fitter this year due to his hard work in school and with his football team. Calum S was 19th and Cameron was 22nd. Cameron was competing in his first ever Cross-Country event. Congratulations to all the team! 

Senior Boys

This year was the first time we’ve had a senior boys team compete at these Championships. We hope this will be the first of many. Daniel who has been the most successful performer for SGG at Cross-Country knew he would  be in a harder race this year. With the event 4 days before the Scottish National Championships all fields had more club level runners in them. None more so that the Senior Boys. Daniel again put an excellent display of endurance, confidence and race tactics together to finish with the Bronze medal. Over the 3 laps he increased his speed to chip away at the field. At the bridge on the last lap he still had a lot to do to catch the runner in 3rd position. Daniel timed this to perfection and over took him in the last stages of the race. His third individual medal in 3 years. David put an awesome race together to finish in 5th, Andrew C 7th, Benjamin 16th, Calum 22nd and Ruairidh 27th ensured the team title came back with us to SGG! Congratulations to the team their third team medals in a row and second Team Gold winning performance! 

It was a landmark day for Sgoil Ghaidhlig Ghlaschu. The smallest school in the city came away with 4 individual and 4 sets of team medals. This is such and amazing achievement from our pupils. It is all down to their own hard work, great attitude and high levels of effort. Keep it up! 

Glasgow Schools Netball Tournament

Next week the Glasgow Schools Netball Tournament takes place at Bellahouston Sports Centre. Here’s the S1& S2 teams that will be taking part:

S1

Rebecca MacVicar

Olive Mojsiewicz

Rhubin Li

Sarah Bonad

Emma Close

Lucie Mills

Charlotte Cavanagh

Kayleigh McPherson

S2

Rhianna Boyle

Orlagh Sweeney-Quinn

Ceitidh MacDonald

Peggy-Nan Rodger

Leena Jebbari

Millie Soutar

Kerry Stewart

Abbey Hart

Good luck to both teams.

SGG Teams for Scottish Schools Cross-Country Championships

After this week’s success at the Glasgow Schools’ Cross Country Championships (more of that posted soon) the school now looks towards the Scottish School Cross Country Championships at South Queensferry. The event was due to take place on March 3rd but it has been postponed due to the snow. A future date will be set by Scottish Schools Athletics in a few days time. More details soon:

D Girls

Maebh Cronin

Lucie Mills

Olive Mojsiewicz

Sophie Pettifor

D Boys

Connor Walker

Cameron Weir

Isaac Birr

Jed Love

Daniel Fraser

Adam Houstoun

C Girls

Shona Carey

Peggy-Nan Rodger

Ameilia Shuttleworth

Abbey Hart

Beth Murray

Cerys Westwood

C Boys

Patrick Connor

Sean Kelly

David Robertson

Rico Marinovic

B Boys

Robaidh Whyte

Gilles O’Hanlon

Alexander Buchan

Alasdair Campbell

Aiden Tittmar

Findlay Dickson

A Girls 

Amy Craig

A Boys

Andrew Carey

David Comerford

Calum Brown

Daniel Moran

Good luck to all our competitors! 

SGG Teams for Glasgow Schools Cross-Country Championships

Here’s our teams for the Glasgow Schools’ Cross-Country Championships. We have over 60 runners competing, an incredible number for SGG! The race takes place on Tuesday, we wish all the runners the best for their race. The Championships is one of the biggest sporting events of the year, looking forward to it already! 

S5/6 

Daniel Moran 

Andrew Carey 

Calum Brown 

Ruairidh Harris 

David Comerford 

Benjamin Campbell

6

Amy Craig

Johanna Peters 

Catriona Macleod 

Abigail Cavanagh 

Iona MacLean 

Anna Murray 

6

S4

Aidan Tittmar

Alasdair Campbell  

Gilles O’Hanlon 

Alexander Buchan 

James Diamond 

Cameron McPherson 

Calum Stewart  

Findlay Dickson

8

S3

Duncan MacKenzie

Patrick Connor 

Luke Patterson 

Jack Nairn 

Kyle Gilles 

Sean Kelly 

Lewis Anderson

7

Shona Carey 

Annabel MacDonald 

Beth Murray 

Mirren Ward 

Chloe Forrest 

Niamh Moore 

Kristen McPherson 

Abigail Campbell 

8

S2

Rico Marinovic 

Connor Walker 

Fionn Graham 

Robert Kay-Whyte 

Aaron Green 

Flynn Butler 

Seumas O’Connell 

7

Peggy-Nan Rodger 

Abbey Hart 

Ameilia Shuttleworth 

Kerry Stewart 

Millie Arthur 

Cerys Westwood 

Sophie Pettifor 

7

S1

Daniel Fraser 

David Robertson 

Jed Love 

Isaac Birr 

Adam Houstoun 

Cameron Weir 

Calum Bryden 

Joel MacInnes 

Sam Jarvis 

Anndra Monk 

10

Lucie Mills

Olive Mojsiewicz 

Sara Charnley

Maebh Cronin 

4

S2 Netball Team

Our S2 Netball Team have completes all their Netball Fixtures and are through to the playoff finals (unofficially). The girls won all but one of their games and have progressed really well throughout the year, they certainly have learnt a lot since being at the International festival in Paris. The girls will play 3 other teams in the playoff finals to decide who finishes 1st-4th in the City. Good luck to the team.   

S1 Netball Team

Here’s the S1 Netball Team for their final league fixture of the year. The team play Bannerman High School. It’s a home game so the game is being played at Kelvin Hall. Mr MacCorquodale unfortunately won’t make it as their’s a parents night on so Grant Allison, our active schools coordinator will take the team along with sports ambassador Margaret Driscoll who will coach and umpire:

Olive Mojsiewicz

Sarah Bonad

Charlotte Cavanagh

Emma Close

Kayleigh McPherson

Rebecca MacVicar

Lucie Mills 

Rhubin Li

SGG Team for Scottish Schools Indoor Championships

Good luck to the Athletics team who have been entered into the Scottish Schools Indoor Championships. This is the largest team we entered into this competition. This event is over two days and is one of the top competitions on the sporting calendar. Here’s the team:

Shona Carey 800m & 1500m

Peggy-Nan Rodger 800m

Annabel MacDonald 200m & 300m

Mirren Ward 60m

Chloe Forrest 60m

Robaidh Whyte 1500m

Iver Campbell 60m

Eilidh McDougall 60m & 200m

Erin Moran 300m

Jacob Connelly 200m & 400m

Lewis Grimmer 400m

Netball Competition Entries

Some pupils have been asking about why we don’t have an S3/4 team in the Glasgow Schools League this year so I’ll try and explain the reasoning. Having a small number of pupils to select from as a school there’s had to be strategy put in behind what competitions to enter in the past two years in the hope of building experience and the number of teams for future years in both the Glasgow and Scottish competitions. The 6 x S3s in this Scottish Cup team (previous post) for example were entered into the Scottish Cup last year and solely focussed on the competition having not also entered the Glasgow League in 2016/17. This like last year allowed us to use players from the lower year group in the team as they are not in the Scottish Cup as a year group themselves, only the S2 Glasgow League. This year we have no S3/4 team entered in the Glasgow Schools League despite having won the competition last year. We have the S1s and S2s in the Glasgow League, S2/3s in the Scottish Cup and the S4-6(seniors) in the Scottish Cup too. This has all been done in the hope that this current S2/3 Scottish Cup team will have good practice before coming together again as a team and re-entering the Glasgow Schools League next year at the S3/4 age group team after summer 2018. As well as this we will have a separate S3 team and Senior Team in the Scottish Cup competition too. This will mean that the current senior team will be strengthened next year by this year’s Scottish Cup S3s who move up a Senior Scottish Cup age group to S4-6s after the summer. It also means that the S2s in this Scottish Cup team have experience of playing in the Scottish Competition before entering as an S3 team on their own next year. So basically next year we will have more teams entered in the Glasgow Schools competition with an S1, S2 and S3/4 team in the competition. We will also have an S3 and Senior Team entered into the Scottish Cup. So that’s the logic behind it all, building for tgthe future!

S3 Scottish Cup Netball Game

Our S2/3 Netball Team are playing their next fixture in the Scottish Cup. They are up against a very good team in Strathaven on Thursday. Here’s the nine:

Eilidh Michie

Anna Horsburgh

Abigail Campbell

Iona Cochrane

Annabel MacDonald

Seona Macleod

Abbey Hart

Kerry Stewart

Millie Soutar

Good luck to the team

S1 Netball Game vs Hillhead

Here’s the S1 Team for the Glasgow Schools’ League Game against Hillhead on Tuesday:

Lucie Mills

Rebecca MacVicar

Emma Close

Sarah Bonad

Kayleigh McPherson

Olive Mojsiewicz

Rhubin Li

Charlotte Cavanagh 

Good luck! 

SGG Cross-Country Championships

Here we go, the annual Cross-Country Championships takes place on Thursday 15th February. All S1-3s will do the race but any S4-6s wanting to do it can sign up too. The girls race will take place during P1 and the boys race will be on P2. You will need warm clothes and/or waterproofs to wear before the race as well as a full PE kit, you can come to school dressed ready to take part. Dark clothes including socks is a good idea as it’s likely to be muddy. You can wear spikes if you have them, if not we suggest old trainers. You will definitely need a towel and school uniform to change into after the race. Take a couple of carrier bags to put your muddy stuff in after too.  If you have PE later again that day you will need a different PE kit to take part in. This includes trainers.