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Welcome to the Feltham Community College Sport News Archive. This is the main news resource for past events at the college and other items of interest that have made the news.

News Archive 2008 - 2009

News Archive 2007 - 2008

News Archive 2006 - 2007

On Sunday 22nd February the 12 selected U13 Basketballers from the West London Region (Hounslow, Ealing, Hillingdon, Harrow and Brent) Played in the London Tournament held at Capital City Academy, Willesden. Of the 12 players selected for the West District team five came from Feltham Community College, these were Leon Shafique, Prabesh Katawal, Hamza Mirza, Aseel Abdullah and Michael Fayombo.

The team were drawn in a strong pool and in their first game, with strong driving play by Leon Shafique and Prabesh Katawal and excellent support play by Chike Dale (Harrow High) the West dominated the game but only managed to win 19-17 against Central London.

Buoyed by their early victory the team went into the second game against North East London. With a strong first quarter with Katawal, Mirza, Fayombo and Dale dominating around the key the West stretched into an 8 point lead. The North East hit back quickly in the third quarter to cut the deficit to two points, baskets were traded with Benu Napata (Wembley High) and Issiah Dixon (Chiswick Community) coming on to continue the West’s attacking threat. The game went down to the last four seconds of the last quarter but unfortunately the West snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, loosing 40-42.

With a win needed from their last game against South East London, the West came out strong again. With Shafique and Cameron Stephenson (Noah Hill) combining well in the back court, the West took a quick lead which they did not relinquish. Year 7s Niall Gallagher (Elthorne Park) and Kevin Loi-Heng (Cardinal Wiseman) came on and added increased energy on the court and allowed Gallagher to score 8 quick points to extend the margin of victory to 30-20.

Coach Andy Justice saluted the team; ‘the team has only had three days together and have produced the best result from the West district in recent times. Missing out of the final by only two points was difficult for the surprise team of the tournament. The player’s attitude and effort was fantastic and a real credit to the West district’.

A silver lining came when both Leon Shafique and Chike Dale were selected for the London district squad to play in the National Tournament in October. Prabesh Katawal was also selected but cannot represent London due to age clash restrictions.

Images of the West London District Basketball Tournament

Twelve students from year 7 and 8 took part in the Hounslow Borough Badminton Doubles Tournament which was held at the Hounslow Badminton Centre near Southall on 13th January 2009. A total of 30 entrants participated in the tournament representing three schools. Initially each pair was placed in a round-robin group consisting of five pairs.

All of the Feltham Boys eased comfortably through the group stages to progress to the semi-finals. Unfortunately the girls pair if Nikita Kavanagh and Saleema Kasim failed to make out of the group but can take pride in the fact they were only female participants and were up against strong opposition. The quarter finals had one all Feltham affair in which Prabesh Katawal and Luke Johnson were ousted out by Michael Fayombo and Manipreet Vanteddu.

In the other matches the reigning champions, Arnie Carter and Asif Brohi comfortably moved into the semis and David Tomkins and Harry Doyle also progressed.

The semis were dominated with three Feltham pairings and one pair from Heathlands who had a county player in their ranks.

The reigning champions defeated Doyle and Tomkins while Fayombo and Vanteddu lost out to the Heathlands pair in a tough semi-final.

The final saw the reigning champions pitted against Heathlands. In a tight match mistakes were costly. Feltham edged ahead to take a 17-14 lead with the serve. However a service fault brought the scores to 17-15 and momentum had shifted to Heathlands. With the county player sending down some booming smashes the Feltham defence was punctured repeatedly. Only one more point was added to the Feltham score and eventually Heathlands ran out the winners 21-18.

Congratulations to the Year 9 basketball team who have reached the next round of the Under 14 English schools competition by beating Holland Park school 58-25 and St. Georges school 39-15. The team continued this good form in defeating Alexandra Park School 51-15 with James Woodburn-Hall scoring 26 points in the Middlesex U14 schools competition.

Our Year 7, 8 and 9 teams all remain undefeated going into Christmas, with the Year 10 and 11 teams only losing one game each so far.

The West London Jets are the newest addition to the London Rugby League community, as well as being the first girl's underage Rugby League club. The Jets launched in June 2008 on the back of Harlequins Rugby League community work in the Richmond, Kingston and Hounslow boroughs. Since then the squad have been training hard, working towards their competitive debut. Most of the players are from leading London Rugby League school, Feltham Community College.

Although the Jets failed to register a win at the National tournament, the girls gained valuable experience as they played extremely competitively against Middleton and Warrington, two of the strongest teams in their age group.

Harlequins Women and Girls CSC and Jets head coach Aran Quinn was delighted with the team's performance; "The girls have been working really hard in preparation for this competition. Even though we didn't win any games there was some fantastic rugby played, including our very first try scored by Jess Lock. The fact they competed so well against such experienced teams shows a lot of potential for the future"

Steve Bucknall will be hosting a Skills Camp and Coaching Clinic at Forest Hill Schools Sports Centre. The Skills Camp runs from 28th July to 1st August with a Coaching Clinic on 2nd August. For more information please download our PDF below:

BES Skills Camp and Coaching Clinic | Pdf 77Kb

On Wednesday 14th May, our College entered 4 teams into the Hounslow Borough Year 7 Badminton Tournament, held at Hounslow Badminton Centre, Southall. All participants enjoyed what was a fantastic afternoon of Badminton, and Feltham Community College proved to be very successful, being Borough Champions in both Boys and Girls competitions. Well done to Asif Brohi and Arnie Carter (Boys Winners), Lilli Sharp (Girls Winner), David Tomkins and Ben Edwards (Boys R/Up) and Liam Horner and Kyren McKenzie-Chalmers (Boys 5th place).

We will shortly be publishing photos from this event.

Harlequins Rugby League, first-ever winners of the Frontline Fair Play Index as Super League's best disciplined club in 2007, have donated the £5,000 prize to local amateur Rugby League club Feltham Falcons.

The Frontline Fair Play Index is calculated on the basis of one point for a technical penalty, two for a foul play penalty, three for a sin bin, four for sending off and five points for each match suspension for a dismissed player. The club with the lowest number of points wins the Frontline Trophy and £5,000 worth of Frontline Bathrooms product.

Harlequins RL, who have one of the most extensive and successful community programmes in professional Rugby League, decided to donate the Frontline Bathrooms prize to the amateur game.

The £5,000 prize has provided the Club with the opportunity to give something unique back to the local Rugby League community

Feltham Falcons in turn have decided to hand over the £5,000 worth of Frontline Bathrooms products to their hosts for training and playing facilities, Feltham Community Sports College, as part of a refurbishment programme.

Michael Sammon, Marketing Manager of Frontline Bathrooms, said: 'Harlequins RL's generous gesture to donate our well-earned £5,000 prize to Feltham Falcons typifies their community spirit. The Club is making massive strides to develop on and off the field and Frontline Bathrooms are delighted to play a part in the Quins partnership with Feltham Falcons and the Feltham Community Sports College.'

Harlequins RL Community Coach Andy Flint, who also runs the Feltham Falcons Club, added: 'Harlequins RL are proud to be the inaugural winners of the Frontline Fair Play Index. The £5,000 prize has provided the Club with the opportunity to give something unique back to the local Rugby League community.'

'Feltham Community Sports College is certainly a deserved recipient of the Frontline Bathrooms product. They are long-time supporters of the local Rugby League fraternity and have been more than accommodating hosts to the Feltham Falcons, who train and play at the college.'

'Their training facilities are also offered to the Harlequins RL Scholarship players and, from time to time, to the Quins first team squad. We are all now excited about the refurbishments getting underway and looking forward to seeing the finished product.'

West Yorkshire-based Frontline Bathrooms, an Official Partner of The RFL, are one of the UK's leading suppliers to the bathroom industry. Frontline Bathrooms' marketing campaign centres on their renowned catalogue as featured at www.frontlinebathrooms.co.uk.

Congratulations to the Year 7 Boys basketball team, crowned Hounslow Borough champions and reaching the Middlesex cup final after winning 19-14 on wednesday. The students have shown an excellent attitude and huge effort to have a perfect 10-0 record for the year.

You can see photographs from the final by visiting our Sports Images page.

Congratulations to Sian Hill for being selected for the 2008 Great Britian Aerobic Gymnastics Squad to go to the World Championships in April.

Congratulations to Olsi Krasniqi and Darren Reed for being selected for the U16 England Rugby League squad. Read more about this news story on our Sporting Success page.

Congratulations to Rob Thomas for playing for Harlequins Rugby League first team in recent games. Read more about this news story on our Sporting Success page.

In PE students were given the opportunity to choose their activity. The theme was ‘try something new’. Students were given the opportunity to use our new climbing wall and to play games such as Rocket Ball, Floor Ball, Handball, Ultimate Frisbee and Shokk Combat. These activities really engaged the students and we are looking at including some of them in our curriculum for next year.

During lunch times and after school students were given an enhanced programme of activities. Table Tennis and a Rowing challenge were set up on the playground, to ‘bring sport to the public’. The two most impressive performances on the rowing challenge were from Josh Shakleton and Danielle Pond.

All years 7 experienced lessons with a sporting theme across the whole of there curriculum. Example of this included Science where students learnt about forces through Rugby and in Maths where they improved their data collection by recording each other in track and field events. This method of learning has been proved to be really popular and the departments are looking to add more active learning experiences into their schemes of work.

Images of the National Schools Sports Week

Harlequins Rugby League are holding a summer camp this year for Boys and Girls aged 7to 16yrs. Participants get 2 days of quality coaching, Harlequins RL players training sessions, Q and A sessions,
Harlequins RL matchday pass, Summer camp photo, T-shirt and team poster.

For more information download the Harlequins Summer Camp Flyer.

Harlequins Rugby League are introducing a Junior Quins Club for children aged 4-16 years. Membership is free and the children receive ticket offers for certain games, merchandise offers, a newsletter, meet the player events and much more.

For more information download the Junior Quins Club Flyer.

History was made last weekend when London and the South's first ever girl's representative squad played at the Champion of Champions tournament in St Helens.

An under 12’s and under 14’s side travelled to the prestigious event with Harlequins community Rugby League coach, Aran Quinn, to showcase the enormous progress that has taken place in girl’s rugby league in the Capital.

“They all showed true grit and determination and never gave up throughout the tournament. We all agreed on goals for the tournament and we ticked them all off at the end of it, which was fantastic!

"I must say a huge thank you to Beth Greenwood and Philippa Robson who coached the under 14 and under 12 side's respectively."

Over 100 students attended the event, in which the PE Department honours students who have made outstanding contributions to the college sports teams over the last 12 months.

Prizes are awarded for each year group for sports including Athletics, Rugby, Basketball, Netball, Cricket, Dance, Rounders, Football and Table Tennis and Badminton. Five students are nominated in each category by their respective coaches, before a winner is chosen. Each winner receives a commemorative shield. Overall winners for each sport are then chosen, with these students receiving another shield and a prize linked to their sport.

A number of special awards are also presented on the night. These included the Male and Female Sports Personality of the Year, awarded to Kain Monks and Dannielle Pond; the Team of the Year Award was split between, the Y8 Rugby team and Yr 8/9 Basketball Squad and Jamie Wittekind Award for outstanding effort and progress in PE, awarded to Siobhan Laurent.

Many thanks to all the professional clubs/agencies for all their support in the production of this awards evening, and especially to UPS who have again been fantastic to support this evenings’ event. It is also great to have Sky TV, Plan A Printers and Shaw Trophies all willing to support and sponsor the event, recognising the huge impact that sport has on the local community.

The evening rounded off another fantastic year of Sport at FCC and students are already looking forward to going one step further next season!

Images of the Celebration of Sport Evening 2009

Highlights of the tour involved going into the pavilion and the ‘Long Room’ where players walk through before walking on to the pitch, getting in a chance to sit in the changing rooms and in the seat of famous England players such as Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen.

After leaving the pavilion the tour went out into the stands to get some memorable photos and then on to the media centre. The media centre was of great interest as those studying media in school managed to find out a lot about the futuristic structure and how cricket is reported and broadcasted to the world. The view from the media centre is second to none and the boys were all very impressed.

The day concluded with some lunch next to the nursery ground and a visit to the shop to pick up some souvenirs, not before at least spotting one famous person, former England Captain Mike Gatting was nearby and said hello!

Images of the Year 7 Lord's Cricket Ground Visit

On Wednesday the 10th June Lee Ewing, Leon Jezeph and Calum Matthews from Year 8 along with Mr Neal and Mr Footman had the privilege of being invited to the Houses of Parliament to meet former Sports Minister and current World Cup ambassador Richard Caborn MP.

The trip was part of a promotional visit organised by local Feltham and Hounslow MP Alan Keen to promote the bid for the 2018 World Cup in England. The boys, who all represented the Year 8 football team this year, had presented a signed football to Mr Caborn. The ball was signed by students at Feltham Community College all supporting the 2018 bid.

The boys were joined by students from other local schools for a photo shoot at the home of government. After the photo shoot the students even found time to have a quick kick about on the lawn within the parliament grounds which is something that no one has the opportunity to do and doubt it will be repeated.

The day finished with a short tour of the Houses of Parliament and access to some exclusive areas that only MP’s are permitted. Whilst on tour and on the look out for famous faces, the group was passed by the Leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg on the stairs, however Gordon Brown was nowhere to be found!

Images of the Houses of Parliament College Trip

Monday 27th July to Friday 31st July 2009 at Crystal Palace National Sport Centre, London

• Guest appearances from NBA & European Players and Coaches
• You will improve more than you thought possible
• Low Camper to Staff ratio
• 5 Hours on court every day
• Staff v Camper Games

This is an intense camp and dedicated to players who strive to reach their full potential. Campers will receive individual instruction from members of the BES coaching staff on the Hardwood, and receive lectures and 1 on 1 tutelage from some of the biggest names in the sport. Outstanding coaches take an individual interest in each child regardless of his or her ability on the court. BES presents a solid base for players just getting started and a challenge for advanced players who want to become more explosive and efficient.

BES believe that the reinforcement of proper basketball fundamentals and attitude development is invaluable at all levels of play. If a player can learn these basics before they pick up bad habits then almost anyone can become a good player and give themselves the opportunity to make the grade in school, professionally and even internationally.

Find out more about the Bucknall Essential Skills Basketball Camp 2009 and download an Application Form. Visit the Bucknall Essential Skills website.

Feltham Community College’s Year 8 basketball continued their total dominance of borough basketball by retaining their crown defeating Heathlands school 60-18. The Year 8 team are yet to loose a game in the Hounslow Borough league for two years and started the final with the intent to keep this record intact. With high scorer Prabesh Katawal and Leon Shafique running the offence well and Michael Fayombo continuing to show good form in his first season winning a lion share of rebounds, Feltham stretched into a 14-4 first quarter lead.

Katawal continued his dominant forward play in the second quarter, ably backed up by Hamza Mirza and Ryan Dingle as Feltham stretched their lead to 26-8 at half time.

Constant rotation of the bench showed no weak links as Feltham continued to pile on the pressure in the second half as Calum Matthews and Ben Edwards pulled the strings from back court and Srdan Petrovic, Aseel Abdullah and Asif Brohi all came into the game adding vital contributions and keeping the score board ticking over.

With a final push that saw five different Feltham players add 20 points in the last quarter the real strength of the team shone through. Prabesh Katawal finished with a season high of 26 points, with Hamza Mirza adding 11 points and Leon shafique adding 10 points to the emphatic total.

Teacher Andy Justice praised his players’ they have come far this year, they are committed to improving and it is a pleasure to see them achieve the success they have had. They are a real credit to the College’.

Images of the Semi Final U14 Middlesex Cup Vs Heston