The Season of Trophies

The St Clare's Football Squad for 2001/02 could not stop winning. The squad has picked up three awards out of a possible five competitions. The winning ways started back in November when they were beaten finalists in the annual St Clare's Tanzanian Educational Project football tournament. Six teams competed and St Clare's picked up the runner's up shield. They were beaten in the final by Cherwell School, Oxford.

Under the expert guidance of Kevin Ryce the Indoor squad collected the first of their two trophies by capturing the SEA. (Student Event Activities Organisation) Cup competition. Twelve teams competed in the cup and St Clares defeated d'Overbroecks in the final. The winning did not stop there and Kevin's army won the SEA league trophy in May 2002.

This was a team effort. The commitment given by all the players since last September was recognised by the college with the official presentation of the three awards by college Principal, Mr. Boyd Roberts. Unfortunately some of the current squad were unavailable for the presentation but the winning team was there.

A special word of thanks must be given to team coach/player Kevin Ryce. Kevin has given up 4 hours a week for the past 35 weeks to the development of football in St Clare's. His dedication, hard work and
enthusiasm for the game is applauded and appreciated. The negative aspect of all this success for Kevin is that he is setting records that he needs to break.

The full squad names are:
Max Pohl, Oliver Lalani, Jinfeng Yu, Aziz Jalal, Lorenzo Ferucci, Rong Hui Miao, Basar Cebeci, Kaan Kurt, Luca Bregoli, Chris Ndhlovu, Guy Florent Gogoua, Gemma Maidment, Colin James, Sean Cassar, Martin Johansson, Zibin Li, Pim Assen, Yang Wang, Zhi Jun Deng, Hassan Ozsut, Jan Kuraszkiewicz.