The Year 10 football team became football champions by winning the Wolverhampton’s Schools’ Under 15 Cup Final, 5-2 against Heath Park.

Hosted at the Wolves Academy. Compton Park, on Wednesday 29 March, it was the first time the team had reached a final since Year 7.

In the first half Heath Park put pressure on St Edmund’s breaking up the play until Lewis Richards stepped in and scored the first goal of the match, Heath Park then started to build pressure again which resulted in them scoring the equaliser. After halftime the team St Edmund’s start to play with more confidence, Lewis Richards got his second, putting St Edmund’s 2-1 up, St Edmund’s continued to play well against a well organised Heath Park team. Lewis made a great play with Ali Rahemi and scored his hat trick. He said: “It was well worth it and it felt great to be apart of the team.” Heath Park scored another goal making  the score to 3-2.

St Edmund’s picked themselves up again and pulled out all of their skills to try and win and it paid off in the end with both Ali Rahemi and Dominik Sasin scoring a goal each and finishing the match with a 5-2 win.

Bringing home the cup Ali Rahemi, the team captain, said: “Everyone did an outstanding job and we had supportive fans who backed us up all the way.”
Mr Sohker, Technology with Art & ICT Co-ordinator agreed, saying “It was a spirited performance from a talented group of individuals, all of whom were determined and committed to represent the school in the best way possible, and it culminated in a great win to bring the cup home.”

Twenty six students competed in the annual City Gymnastics Competition at Highfield’s School.  It was an excellent day and all their hard work paid off as many of them came away with medals.

In the beginners section Taryn-Rose Hough demonstrated tremendous skill, control and strength on both floor and vault and walked away with silver on vault with Amira Abdullah, and a respective 3rd place overall.  Janis Nantchouang performed really well too and became city champion on vault. Other performers in this section were Grace Leo, Shristi Sharma, Sophie Spilsbury, Angel Henson-King, Vaneigha Brown, Faith Katangu, Emily Radford, Sophie Hipkiss, Olivia Rooker and Sibel Marcu.

Novice Section Results

Floor

Ashleigh Gooden – Bronze

Amelia Beet – Silver

Rebecca Butler & Josh Dodd-Matthews – Gold

Vault

Christina Clifton & Rebecca Butler – Bronze

Ashleigh Gooden & Stefano Okonkwo – Silver

Lysia Bayley – Gold

Overall

Stefano Okonkwo – Bronze

Ashleigh Gooden – Silver

Rebecca Butler – Gold

The teams of Rebecca, Christina, Lysia, Ashleigh & Stefano gained gold medals too and will now go on to represent Wolverhampton in the Black Country Games in June.

St. Edmund’s also performed well in the City Trampolining Competition too, Lisa Spratt won bronze medal in the advanced section, Lysia Bayley silver in the intermediate section and Molly-Anne Porter gold in the beginners section. Other performers were:- Emily Radford, Amira Abdullah, Amelia Beet, Josh Dodd-Matthews, Shona McIntyre, Evelyn Thorpe, Trinity Cash, Emma Espebedes, Chaya Coleman, Chiara Montana, Rosie Murphy and Isobel Rafferty.

These were outstanding performance from all gymnasts/trampolinists.  They looked so smart and impressive – a credit to themselves and the school. Well done!

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