Well done to all of the boys who attended the recent Angus Rugby Festival and represented Arbroath High School. Although not winning many games the team played very well and improved as the day progressed.
Category Archives: Sport
Talent ID
A group of S3 pupils were selected to attend a talent ID day for Scottish Athletics. The event was called ‘Playground to Podium’ and was a chance for Scottish Athletics to draw in talent from other sporting areas. The pupils selected were Finn Sutherland, Kailin Brannigan, Callum Beattie, Jakub Proctor, Hannah Robb, Kate Fraser and Georgia Ferrie. The athletes were involved in running, throwing and jumping and all performed exceptionally well winning many of the group stations. The next stage in this process involves inviting back the top athletes to work with specialist coaches.
Netball: The Tayside and Fife Challenge
More success for our school netball teams as one senior team and three further teams made up of pupils from S2 and S3 travelled to the Bells Sports Centre in Perth to participate in the Tayside and Fife Schools Challenge Cup.
The format for the junior competition was a round robin with two groups. Both the AHS A and B teams topped their groups with the C team placing 3rd and narrowly missing the semi-finals. AHS A and B then won their respective semi-finals to set up an all AHS final which was of a very high standard.
The senior girls also played a round robin winning two group matches and then winning the final to take the senior title.
Secondary Schools Golf League
Congratulations to the AHS golf team who won the Angus League. The team consisted of Kyle Gibson, Stephen Shepherd and Jake McWalter and they were undefeated throughout the competition
Swimming
There was further success for Arbroath High’s much-travelled band of swimmers, this time in the Scottish Schools Relay Championships, held last week in Edinburgh. The team of Blair Geddes, Luke Shepherd, Nathan Watt and Taylor Young took second place and the silver medal in the open age group 4 x 50 metre freestyle relay.
Not content with one national medal the boys then added a bronze in the 4 x 50 metre medley relay, with Luke swimming backstroke, Taylor on the breaststroke leg, Nathan swimming butterfly and Blair taking the team home on freestyle for a place on the podium.
Congratulations also go to S1 pupils Ally Morrison and Ashley Thomson on their performances at the recent Angus Schools swimming gala. Ally took gold in the 50m Backstroke with a time of 35.28 while Ashley also won gold in the 50m Butterfly in a time of 33.42.
Football
U15 Football, Angus Cup Final
A.H.S. 2 v 1 Forfar Academy.
Scorers: Callum Beattie 47 mins, Kerr Waddell, 93 mins.
ArbroathHS fought back from being a goal down at half time to deservedly win the Angus Cup, in a hard fought match at Station Park. Despite having most of the play in the first half Arbroath went behind just before half time. However Callum Beattie equalised early in the second half with a vicious swerving drive from a tight angle the match went to extra time.
A penalty shoot-out was looming, but Kerr Waddell flighted a long-range dipping strike beyond the Forfar goalkeeper to snatch a worthy win for the High School. Finn Sutherland had already gone close with two earlier chances and with excellent performances from Gareth Mowatt in goal and Harris Carnegie and Liam Sime in defence the Arbroath goal was rarely threatened and the win was more comfortable in the end than the score suggested. It was a satisfying end to a good season.
The goal of the season award went to Scott Milne’s overhead volley at Carnoustie after Finn Sutherland’s multiple drag backs and backheel cross and Sam Clark’s headflick on. Runner up went to Kerr Waddell’s cup winning goal at Forfar and third to Finn Sutherland’s casual top corner place shot at Bannerman.
It was a season when the whole squad excelled: Jonathan Bastow and Bailey Menmuir were never overwhelmed at full back and Nathan Sinclair and Ross Paterson were consistently effective in midfield, beside the powerful and creative Waddell and Beattie. The substitutes played well when called to do so, with Tommy Yule’s appearance at Bannerman HS being particularly remarkable. Congratulations to all and bring on next season.
Congratulations also go to the S1 boys football team who beat Arbroath Academy 9-2 in the Angus league. And then went on to defeat Webster’s HS to become League champions.
County Sports
For the nineteenth time in twenty-one years, Arbroath High School was the winners of the Angus County Sports. This represents an astonishing, sustained level of success given the competitive nature of the event between the eight Angus secondary schools and the relative sizes of the schools. In addition to the overall success, the team from AHS won the S2, S3 and Senior girls categories as well as the S3 boys.
School Sports Champions
The individual champions in the Arbroath High School Sports event for pupils in first, second and third years were as follows:
S1 Girls
1st Ally Morrison
2nd Ashley Thomson
3rd Ellis Mathieson
S2 Girls
1st Nicola Fairlie
2nd Naimh Feighan
3rd Ellie Callon
S3 Girls
1st Georgia Ferrie
2nd = Hannah Robb & Kate Fraser
3rd Kelsey Young
S1 Boys
1st Matthew Law
2nd Adam Brewer
3rd Eoin Beaton
S2 Boys
1st Kieran McKenzie
2nd Owen Nelson
3rd Josh Moore
S3 Boys
1st Finn Sutherland
2nd Callum Beattie
3rd Kerr Waddell
Cricket
Two S1 pupils – Ben Plomer and Daryl Sinclair – have been selected by Cricket Scotland to represent Tayside and Fife area at U13 academy level. This represents an excellent first opportunity for these pupils to show their skills and potential for further progress through the various representative tiers of the game towards international level. We wish them well in a forthcoming series of three matches from 13th to 25th June.
The boys will be accompanied by Fraser Burnett, a coach for the academy team. Fraser is both a former pupil of Arbroath High School and a Scottish international cricket player. His advice and guidance will no doubt be welcome.
East District Golf Championship
Congratulations to Jake McWalter and Kyle Gibson who competed in the East District Golf Championship last week. Jake and Kyle came 2nd in the team event, Jake also came 2nd in the individual scratch competition and Kyle came 3rd in the individual Handicap competition. Well Done.
