Biathlon, Sport Results

Biathlon

The 4th EP league event was hosted by Volkskool this weekend (10 November) in true Karoo style.  With music playing, temperatures soaring and the smell of kudo burgers and lamb sosaties wafting over the track and pool, it was a splendid event in all respects and was definitely enjoyed by spectators and competitors alike.  Special mention must be made of the organisers and the awesome Union and Volkskool mums who got stuck in behind the scenes to contribute the ultimate success of the day.

Due to this event being hosted in our back yard, Union was fortunate to be able to field a larger than usual team, despite it being held in the middle of final exams. Well done especially to all the first-timers who overcame their nerves and participated with great enjoyment and produced some wonderful results.  Congratulations must go to Mrs Hanli Rose-Innes (running) and her husband, Rowan (swimming) who took part in the fun relay event and held the Union name high!  Well done to the relay team of Kendall Krige, Drew Dobinson and Bowen Langmead who came 2nd in the Senior relay event with an extremely competitive performance.

It is always particularly impressive to watch our regular athletes focusing to keep pushing themselves to better their times at every outing and this event was no different, with almost every single one of our athletes improving their personal bests in one or both of the disciplines. It was also wonderful to welcome seven newcomers to this exciting sport and we hope that these athletes have been bitten by the biathlon bug, and will continue to compete and represent Union on a regular basis.

 

 

DATE: NAME: RUN TIME SCORE SWIM TIME SCORE TOTAL
10 Nov Tyra Binney 4:52:47 693 1:33:50 929 1622
Caytah Koeberg 4:35:86 776 1:47:72 787 1563
Brent Hesselink 6:36:81 656 1:52:87 675 1331
Ruzhe Hendricks 6:33:40 673 2:17:63 428 1101
James Rose-Innes 7:20:09 440 1:51:81 686 1125
Kendall Krige 4:10:77 866 1:19:24 1042 1908
Drew Dobinson 3:49:14 974 1:31:06 923 1898
Brigette Oelofsen 4:13:04 855 1:28:06 953 1808
Bowen Langmead 6:08:64 702 1:21:60 978 1680
James Potgieter 6:50:15 494 1:23:72 957 1451
Megan Doyle 4:16:24 844 1:17:72 1067 1911
Jenna McNaughton 3:55:67 947 1:35:74 887 1833

 

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UHS Golf Day Postponed

Dear Parents, Old Unionites, and Friends of the Union

We hereby advise that the Annual Union High Golf Day, scheduled for Saturday, 10 November has been postponed until our Centenary Year in 2019, at a time when more of our visiting Old Unionites will be able to be part of this great event.

We apologise to those golfers who have already booked to play on Saturday, and also thank our sponsors for their commitment – we will definitely approach them again in the new year.

We look forward to the Centenary Golf Day and further information will be sent out early in 2019.

Sport Results, Tennis

Junior Tennis

Our top four girls and boys represented Union in the annual Jocelyn Marais Invitational Tennis Tournament organised by MatchPoint Tennis on Friday and Saturday.

Although we played against very strong teams, our players rose to the challenge and played very good tennis. It was a great experience and the players certainly benefitted from exposure to tennis of such a high standard.

Well done to all the players on an excellent tournament. Our girls ended in fifth place and the boys seventh.

Sport Results, Swimming

C Age Group Gala

Union went to the C Age Group Gala in Port Elizabeth on Saturday. Our six swimmers bravely took on the cold water. There were 190 swimmers in total.

Zara Deysel-Douman came 8th in Backstroke and 9th in Freestyle. Anna-May Hayes came 6th in Backstroke, 8th in Breaststroke and 10th in Freestyle. Angus McLaggen came 3rd in Backstroke, 4th in Breaststroke and 3rd in Freestyle.

Well done to all the swimmers.

Cricket, Sport Results

Junior Cricket vs Westering

This weekend our u13 cricket boys played their last two matches of the season against Westering Primary from Port Elizabeth.

Friday (T20)

After winning the toss we selected to bat first against a strong bowling attack. Our batsmen did well under pressure, but struggled to get runs on the board ending our innings on 63/7. Unfortunately our bowlers could not restrict Westering and they chased down out score with 8 wickets in hand.

Saturday (50 overs)

On Saturday we were asked to bowl first and even though this was one of our best bowling and fielding displays all year, Westering managed to score 327 in their 50 overs. Our batsmen did their best in unfavourable conditions, but could only reach 67 all out, losing with 260 runs.

Academic, Bulletin

Accounting National Olympiad

During term 2 and 3 the following learners took part in the SAIPA National Accounting Olympiad:
Grade 11 learners: Khanya Butshingi, Megan Doyle, Sanja Du Plessis, Ethan Gedult, Kia Hoffman, Zintle Maki, Taylyn Miller, Liano Naidoo, Sabrina Potgieter, Bridget Stander and Peter Watermeyer. …
Grade 12 learners: Amanda Brink, Loren Mackelina, Kelly Rose-Innes and Kirsten Van Den Berg.Round 1 took place on 16 May 2018. The marking was done by SAIPA and after round 1 Zintle Maki and Amanda Brink qualified to participate in round two. Round two took place on the 1 August 2018 and after the marking process was completed we were informed that Zintle Maki was placed 8th in the Eastern Cape. Well done on this fine achievement Zintle, may this performance inspire all our Accounting learners!

 

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The Salisbury Connection

The Union High School-Salisbury Cathedral exchange programme provides a unique opportunity for boys and girls from Grade 7 to take part in an exchange scheme, hosting a learner from Salisbury for the first term of 2019 and spending the second term attending school at Salisbury.

Our connection with Salisbury Cathedral School remains strong and this year the learners selected as our Salisbury Exchange learners for 2019 are Matthew Davenport and Caytah-Leigh Koeberg. The 2019 GAP student is Jason Beaumont.