Forget the Fantastic Four – meet our Elite Eleven
Forget the Fantastic Four – meet our Elite Eleven
A team of eleven motivated Year 11 students travelled to the Peter Paine Performance Centre at Boston College to participate in the annual Elite Eleven Competition where Cowley Academy competed against ten other schools from across the county.
Elite Eleven is a mixed inter-school sporting competition that involves 11 secondary schools from across Lincolnshire who compete against each other in a variety of indoor sporting challenges. All four schools in our Trust participated so this added extra competition between our own schools.
The challenges facing our students were tests of fitness, strength, speed, power, agility, memory, problem solving and team-based challenges, which were linked to events seen at the Olympics and Paralympics in Paris 2024. These included a golf challenge, football darts, Illinois agility run, a minefield challenge, farmers walk, netball challenge, sports anagram, new age kurling, blazepods reaction time challenge, drainpipe teamwork challenge, fitness challenge and a memory challenge.
Our students performed well in all challenges but impressed most in the farmers walk challenge, drainpipe challenge and BlazePods reaction time, where the scores they achieved were some of the top across the 11 schools competing.
After all of the challenges were completed and before the presentations, an inspirational talk was given by 4 x World Champion Body Builder, Josh-Blue Majury who discussed his pathway into the industry of bodybuilding and personal training, plus how he himself used setbacks to become successful.
Mr Brader, Head of PE at Cowley Academy said “Cowley Academy were represented brilliantly by our students who showed great teamwork and resilience to complete some tough challenges which tested them both physically and mentally. We were also pleased to see former Cowley students who are now Boston College at thriving and speaking positively of the new challenges they are now facing.”
Cowley Academy Elite 11 Team
- Toby Baily
- Elliot Barlow
- Daniella Bolland
- Anastasia Bratchley
- Leighton Curtis
- Ethan Devaney
- Gracie Dyke
- Benjamin Hall
- Hannah Manning
- Kaitlin Pendry
- Jamie Wheaton