Hockey
The hockey players are to be congratulated on their resilience in coping with the loss of the three hockey pitches to floods in mid October. It was not unusual to see 60 girls practising on one astro-turf hockey pitch.
We continued to fulfil most of our fixtures, by playing ‘away’ matches. At Junior level the 14A XI maintained their three-year unbeaten record right up to the end of the season, only to be defeated by an excellent Banbridge Academy team in the quarter-final replay of the Junior Cup. Jenny Kyle was an inspirational captain and did in fact captain the Ulster U16B XI side. She was also their leading scorer.
At Senior level, Laura Wilson and Vicki Green, both talented players on the 1st XI, gained representative honours. They played for the Ulster Schools’ U16A XI side and were then selected for the Irish Schools’ XI, which played in Belgium.
The programme of Mini Hockey for Primary 5, 6 and 7, run by the ever-enthusiastic Mr Dorman and Miss Warburton, proved to be very popular and highly successful. New links with more primary schools were forged through the Sports Camp in August.