The Sports Dinner
This year on the 6th of May the 8th annual Sports Dinner was held, with Karen Atkinson, co –captain of the England Netball Team, as the speaker and presenter of the awards. She gave a wonderful talk about her journey to the England team, including the trials and tribulations that she had to battle through to get to where she is today.
Having started playing netball in a car park as part of a local team set up by her mother, she has progressed, despite rejection, to three World Championships, with a fourth (and final) one coming up in July. The girls were inspired to hear how similar her roots were to many of their own and this made her all the more inspiring, illustrating that dedication and enthusiasm would go a long way when it came to sporting careers.
It was a very enjoyable evening, with music from the Abbey String Quartet, a raffle (of which proceeds went to sport disability charities) and a slideshow put together by the PE department showing a vast number of pictures of sport at the Abbey throughout the year. This year’s Sports Dinner has been described as ‘one of the best’ and it left the girls proud of their previous achievements, with many awards being presented, and excited for those in the coming year.