2011-12 has been an exceptionally exciting year for sport at Hereford Sixth Form College. It has marked the promotion of our football first team into the British Colleges (BCS) elite league, seen our netballers battle it out in the super league, badminton players tie in the final of the BCS cup and the most successful ski trip to date.

Emma Crooke recently went to Växjö, Sweden for six days to train and compete in the World Indoor Throwing Championships. Emma’s event is the discus and she got the chance to train with the world’s best discus coach Vésteinn Hafsteinsson, from Iceland. He coaches many great athletes including Gerd Kanter (Estonian Olympic Gold medallist at Beijing 2008) and Brett Morse (our thrower for Team GB in 2012).

An exhibition of art linking Herefordshire with the Olympics was also on display at Hereford Sixth Form College’s recent Olympic Torch Reception. “Mechanical Man” - a sculpture by A Level student, Leon Cheung, came third in a prestigious sculpture competition on the theme of Paralympic Sport – ‘Sculpture and Sport A Celebration for 2012’.

The College welcomed distinguished guests to a reception to communicate its plans to greet the Olympic Torch as it travels through Herefordshire and to highlight some of the amazing links, past and present, between Herefordshire and the Olympics. Guest of Honour was Mike Lapage, proudly displaying his Olympic Silver Medal, collected for rowing in 1948 at the Austerity Olympics held in London.