By Arun Crowe, Omer Olcer and Alex Watson With an illustrious career of 469 matches for top Rugby Union side Saracens, and many years spent working at some of England’s … Continue Reading Floyd Steadman: Trailblazing Rugby Star
By Anuj Srivastav With the 2022 Cricket Season fast approaching, the Hampton School First XI are looking to improve on their performances during the previous year. They played a total … Continue Reading Cricket 2022 Season Preview
By Harry McLusky Life as a 16-year-old pupil is difficult enough. Yet, imagine having to balance GCSEs with national level sport. This is something aspiring cyclist and Hamptonian, Finlay Hawker, … Continue Reading Finlay Hawker: Life on the Road
By Sam Colvine There was an air of uncertainty the last time HSC talked to Ollie Stanhope OH (2016). The Covid-19 pandemic was beginning to tighten its grip on everyday … Continue Reading Stanhope’s Golden Year
By Henry Fagan Mr David Clarke has taught at Hampton for nearly 40 years but how many Hamptonians know about his illustrious running career? Having competed internationally for Great Britain … Continue Reading Mr Clarke: Running Things
By Avi Bhatt Mr Chris Harrison is one of Hampton School’s longest-serving cricket coaches and has been coaching and playing the game for many years. During this time he has … Continue Reading Mr Harrison: Cultivating Cricketing Success
By Henry Fagan When did you start fencing? When I was seven years old in China, I started to play around 30 minutes per week compared to now where I … Continue Reading Osborn Zhu: Future Olympic fencer in the making?
By Luca Parrish Mr Andy Ritchie has been coaching football at Hampton for some time, and recently, I spoke to him about various footballing topics. These stretched from his experiences … Continue Reading Coaching the Ritchie way
HSC’s Deputy Online Editor, Sam Colvine, catches up with Dave Travis OH (1964), a Commonwealth Gold medallist.
Vishal Saha meets Hampton Fourth Year student and European-level gymnast, Rex Booth
JAYDEN ONI: From claiming an Olympic Gold medal at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles to becoming a current history teacher and coach at Hampton, Mr Cross has had a successful life so far – a vivid story to tell. In his youth, Mr Cross never thought that his delicate rowing talent would ever lead to his fulfilled life today, yet he trained hard to achieve his goals
By James Eggleton | From the Hampton History department to the corridors of Cambridge and playing at Twickenham, Dr Dixon’s past is an amazing story. The Cambridge rugby player found … Continue Reading From Twickenham Stadium to Hampton School: History teacher Dr Dixon talks rugby to HSC
Over the next term, HSC will be attempting to discover the identity of Hampton’s Greatest Sporting Moment, with your help. This feature looks back on Chris Martin’s feat in 2005: … Continue Reading Hampton’s Greatest Sporting Moments: Chris Martin rows across the Atlantic
Over the next term, HSC will be attempting to discover the identity of Hampton’s Greatest Sporting Moment, with your help. This article recounts Calogero Scannella’s ISFA-winning hat-trick for the U15A … Continue Reading Hampton’s Greatest Sporting Moments: Calogero Scannella’s ISFA heroics
By Josh Bartholomew | Matt Legg OH (2015) was 20, about to start his second year at the University of Bath having spent a gap year travelling the world. He … Continue Reading The lonely road back: How one Old Hamptonian is using football to fight the male mental health battle
Over the next term, HSC will be attempting to discover the identity of Hampton’s Greatest Sporting Moment, with your help. This article recalls Greg and Jonny Searle’s Olympic success in … Continue Reading Hampton’s Greatest Sporting Moments: Greg and Jonny Searle win Olympic Gold