CHESS
Good luck to Venetia (Year 7) and Shayanna (Year 9), who are both representing Wales at the World Chess Olympiad. We look forward to hearing about your adventures in Azerbaijan when you get back!
ATHLETICS
Congratulations to all the Howell's students who were invited to attend the Cardiff & the Vale of Glamorgan Schools Joint Cross-Country and Track & Field Presentation Evening on Tuesday, September 6th. Louise S (Yr 10)and Fiona B (Yr 8) both had District Cross Country Colours at the Welsh Schools' National, Renee M (Yr 11) was awarded her District Track and Field Colours 2016 for the Welsh Schools' National Championship and Jess J (Yr 9) was awarded a certificate for the Welsh Sportshall Finals 2016. Well done, girls!
FENCING
Our fencers have had a busy summer! At the School Games in Loughborough, Heulwen H. (Outgoing Yr 13) secured a Bronze medal in the Girls' Individual Foil and Team Bronze in Foil, and Louise S (Yr 10) got Team Bronze in Epée.
Louise also had a Gold medal at the Leon Paul Junior Series International Epée competition in London in August and is currently ranked in 1st place in their Cadet league.
SWIMMING
Two Howell's students were very lucky to have had the opportunity to swim at the UK School Games last weekend. Well done to India B (Yr 11) and Marnie B (Yr 11)!
India also competed in three events at the British Summer Swimming Nationals and at the Welsh Summer Nationals, winning a silver medal in the 200m Individual Medley.
India has been selected to represent the East Wales region in the ASA National County Championships in October for the third successive year, and she has also been selected for the Swim Wales National Youth Development Squad 2016/2017.
Congratulations to Marnie B, (Year 11), who has had a very successful summer in the swimming pool. In July, she qualified for and competed in the British National Summer Championships in Sheffield.
She then attended the Welsh National Championships, where she medalled in all her events. On the weekend of 1st - 4th September, Marnie competed for Wales at the UK School Games at Loughborough University. She has now been selected for the Welsh National Youth Swimming Squad for the 2016/17 season. She is one of only seventeen girls in the 15 to 17 years age group across all the swimming events to have made the squad. This will involve various training camps in and around the UK and representing Wales at competitions both nationally and internationally. Marnie has also progressed to the Elite Youth Squad at City of Cardiff Swimming Club as a result of her successes over the previous swimming season. Well done, Marnie!
KICK BOXING
Congratulations to Rhian F (Yr11), who went to the World Games as part of the Kickboxing Squad. She won two Golds and a silver!
