26 Apr 2008 - School Basketball squad competes in S Glos Festival of Sport
Christ Church attended the annual Festival of Youth Sport on an untypically glorious April day. Was this an omen for a successful basketball campaign? Well that all depends how you define success...
Sometimes sport tests more than your speed, reflexes, technique and ability to bag three pointers. Sometimes it's about resilience, character, teamwork, the ability to persevere when everything seems to be going against you and lesser mortals would throw their hands up and quit.
Christ Church had to suffer two missing players before the tournament started - lost to illness and injury and two further injuries during the matches themselves! Lady luck was not being kind. Despite these difficulties our boys and girls played to the limit of their abilities, kept trying to the very end and smiled all the way through. That surely is one definition of success a league placing doesn't measure.
They were a credit to the school and their families and showed all the spectators present just how sport should be played. We're all very proud of you!
Sometimes sport tests more than your speed, reflexes, technique and ability to bag three pointers. Sometimes it's about resilience, character, teamwork, the ability to persevere when everything seems to be going against you and lesser mortals would throw their hands up and quit.
Christ Church had to suffer two missing players before the tournament started - lost to illness and injury and two further injuries during the matches themselves! Lady luck was not being kind. Despite these difficulties our boys and girls played to the limit of their abilities, kept trying to the very end and smiled all the way through. That surely is one definition of success a league placing doesn't measure.
They were a credit to the school and their families and showed all the spectators present just how sport should be played. We're all very proud of you!