Rugby majors on the five core sports of cricket, hockey, rugby, netball, and tennis with athletics in the Trinity Term.
Our close links with professional sports organisations such as Leicester Tigers RFC, Warwickshire Country Cricket Club and Wasps Super League netball help those talented students to progress.
Our Sport for All options ensure there are activities that every student will enjoy.
Debbie Skene, Director of Sport
Debbie Skene played netball for more tha 20 years across Birmingham Blaze Super League netball team, Warwickshire Netball and Copsewood Diamonds National Clubs division 1. She is a former captain of Warwickshire and West Midlands Senior Netball and has played alongside many of the game’s greats including Karen Atkinson, Olivia Murphy, Tracey Neville and Amanda Newton. She has coached Warwickshire Academies for 15 years and worked with the RAF national netball team and Qatar Inter gulf netball team.
James Stedman, Director of Hockey
James Stedman brings with him the experience of playing for England at all junior levels and on 20 occasions at senior level. He has many years of National Premier League experience, most recently at Holcombe, winning the league and playing in the England Hockey League in 2016.
Mike Bayly is a former professional rugby player representing both Western Province and Boland with 66 appearances as a professional (33 as captain).
His professional coaching career began in South Africa with Boland, followed by two seasons as head coach at Rovigo, Italy, before joining Heyneke Meyer at the Bulls, building the team from a struggling franchise to become Super Rugby Champions. Under Mike’s coaching, they won the Vodacom Cup in 2001, reached five Currie Cup Finals in a row, celebrated three wins in a. row, made it through to two Super Rugby semi-finals in 2005 and 2006, finally winning the Super Rugby Championship in 2007.
Michael Powell, Director of Cricket
Micahel Powell enjoyed a cricketing career that spanned more that 17 years with Warwickshire CCC. He was the last County Captain to lift the B & H trophy at Lord’s in 2002 and represented Warwickshire in more than 290 matches playing alongside many of the games’ greats, such as Allan Donald, Shaun Pollock and Brian Lara.
Chris Folker’s tennis career took flight under the guidance of Bo Erikson, Stefan Edberg’s hitting partner. He went on to play the European Satellite and French tennis circuit with a French federation tennis ranking of 0. Fresh off the European Satellite circuit, Chris returned to Kwazulu Natal Midlands in 1996 where he founded one of the largest privately owned tennis academies in South Africa, CF tennis. For the last 25 years CF tennis has played a leading role in tennis coaching and development in South Africa, resulting in several top players shining brightly on the SA, USA and European tennis front.
‘The school’s sporting reputation is second to none, but it isn’t the preserve of the extremely athletic’
– Tatler Schools Guide