Winners of MK Schools’ Cross-Country Championships

Many congratulations to our cross-country runners whose brilliant performances meant that we were overall winners of the MK Schools Championships held at Campbell Park.  There were fantastic performances from all our teams which were drawn from Year 7 through to Year 11.  A massive thank you to our PE Faculty staff and Football Academy helpers who organised the event which involved 370 runners from 13 MK secondary schools.  Our standout performances were:

Year 7 Girls

Emily Evans – 11^th

Eleanor Miller – 15^th

Mercy Olanrewaju – 19^th

Year 7 Boys

Alex Vout – 2^nd

Sam Giddings – 3^rd

Marshall Bunn – 6^th

Year 8/9 Girls

Isla Featherstone – 2^nd

Grace McCormack – 10^th

Gauri Batakurki – 15^th

Year 8/9 Boys

Morgan Bunn – 3^rd

Benji Murphy – 7^th

Harry Mahoney – 13^th

Year 10/11 Girls

Melissa Harrison – 13^th

Olivia Robson – 21^st

Alexa Ashby – 22^nd

Year 10/11 Boys

Maxwell Newman – 1^st

Joseph Bradstock – 5^th

Jack Irwin – 7^th

Mr Linbourne, Head of the PE Faculty said: ‘Our runners were superb on the day with so many fantastic performances resulting in an overall win for us.  It was a brilliant day of competition at a wonderful venue and it was our pleasure to organise the event and to see all the students’ enthusiasm for competing.   I am grateful to all my colleagues in the PE Faculty and students from our Football Academy who helped make this such a success.’