Boys' College Achievements 2014
Congratulations
Recently, we have had some outstanding news from our boys who compete in National sports and we are very proud of Jeremy Saner received his Springbok Blazer for Fencing from Mr Knowles during Chapel on Friday 11 April 2014. Jeremy has just returned from Bulgaria where he competed in the U17 Mens Sabre Competition. He also competed in Egypt where he came 7th.
Gavin Ford, Nicholas van der Elst, Jordan Sacks, Nicholas Farenheim and Ethan Hunter are commended on their selection for the U18A Gauteng Currie Cup Water Polo side, which competed in Durban from 27 - 30 March 2014. Andrew North made the U18B side and was a non-travelling reserve.
Furthermore, Lukas van der Merwe is to be congratulated on being selected for the Junior National Swimming Squad, and to Trent Panzera, who was selected to represent Central Gauteng in the Australian Age Group National Swimming Championships from 14 -19 April 2014. Congratulations to Kyle van Niekerk, who participated in the SA Level 3 Age Group Championships in Cape Town recently; he won 3 Gold medals and 3 Bronze medals.
Well done to Richard Thongoana who has been playing Tennis in Kenya. He won the Kenya Open and was runner-up in the African Junior Championships.
Bryce Etter is congratulated on his selection into the next round of trials for the National Rowing Junior Squad.
Congratulations to Shungu Dutiro who took part in the U17 SAFA soccer championships. Shungu's side Bidvest Wits won the final 3-0 against Kaizer Chiefs with Shungu scoring the opening goal in a match that was televised live on Supersport. At the end of the game Shungu received the top goal scorer award and was selected into the national U17 squad.
Five of our boys from the Flying Club completed their first flying lesson with Chief Instructor of the Graduate Flight School, John Reeder on Sunday 6 April 2014. Congratulations to: William Bowden, Jason Vogel, Connor Knight, Reece Bhave and Brandon Vermaak
Congratulations to Lucretius Masanga in grade 8, who attended the World Trial Circuit at the Battle of the Giants hosted by SADTA, IDO at Sun City this past weekend.
Lucretius received a Tomato wrist watch, 2 x head phones, 4 gold medals and 3 silvers in the Solo, Duo, Small groups and Battles (hip pop, electric boogy and popping) settings. This competition qualifies him to compete internationally, and plans are underway with the studio to get him to world competitions in Germany before the end of this year. Last year he performed in Denmark in the World Competition and came 6th out of 47 countries.
