By Henry Fagan The Hampton Cross Country team has flourished this year, from defending champions, shattered personal bests, and several debuts by the future of Hampton distance running, Mr Clarke couldn’t have asked for more … Continue Reading Cross Country Season Review
By Henry Fagan On Friday 2nd December, Hampton’s U20, U17, and U15 teamtravelled across the river to Richmond Park to compete in the Borough Championships, with the aim of qualifying for the Middlesex … Continue Reading Solomon leaves his mark at Richmond Schools’ Championships
By Henry Fagan Almost exactly a month after the last athletics meet at Harrow School, the Hampton athletics team travelled to Harrow to compete against the top schools in the … Continue Reading Athletics Team Success at Harrow
By Henry Fagan On 6 May 1954, Sir Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile at the Iffley Road track in Oxford. This was deemed one of the greatest sporting … Continue Reading Records Broken at Achilles’ Relay Track Meet
By Henry Fagan The first Saturday of the summer term saw Hampton athletics team kick off their season with a bang. Mr Mills, Mr Clarke and Mr Chaveneau managed a … Continue Reading Successful Athletics Season Opener
By Henry Fagan Two years ago, on Saturday 14 March 2020 (the date of the last championships), five Hampton athletes competed in the English Schools’ Cross Country Championships in Liverpool. … Continue Reading Strong performance for Hampton athletes at English Schools’ Cross Country Championships
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 Henry Fagan On Wednesday 2 March, whilst most were enjoying their pancakes, Hampton’s Squash B team travelled to their home ground to play the Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in … Continue Reading Hampton’s Squash teams continue to improve in tournaments
By Henry Fagan On Thursday 27 January, a team of twelve boys from Hampton took part in the annual Middlesex Cross Country Championships at Harrow School, representing the borough of … Continue Reading Hampton lead Team Richmond to victory at Middlesex Cross Country Championship
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 Henry Fagan On the last Friday of term, instead of the usual cross country club training, Mr Clarke decided to test the abilities of the cross country athletes by … Continue Reading End of term cross country Christmas handicap race
By Henry Fagan Hampton have found success in many different sports this past year; however Hampton squash players have yet to tap into this winning form. There were two squash … Continue Reading Squash team display fighting spirit in recent tournaments
By Henry Fagan On a Wednesday afternoon in November, 12 Hamptonians made their way to Tiffin School’s playing fields to each compete in a 2.8km race against several other local … Continue Reading Hampton success at Tiffin School’s Judge Cup cross country relay
By Henry Fagan On Thursday 18 November, the cross country team with members from year groups across the School travelled to Richmond Park to compete in the annual Richmond Schools … Continue Reading Cross country team excels at Richmond School Championships
By Henry Fagan The second cross country meet of the term took the ever-growing Hampton cross country team to Guildford to participate in the annual Haskell relays. Each of the … Continue Reading Hampton show grit and enthusiasm at cross country Haskell relay race
By Henry Fagan On 13 October, Mrs May took the Hampton golf team to Fulwell golf club – Hampton’s “home ground” – to play Reed’s school. It was sunny yet … Continue Reading Hampton show promise against a strong opponent in golf