Taking sport to a new level at Ashton College
To make the sport side even stronger, Ashton is about to open various new sporting facilities.
Ashton’s sporting stars made the school proud as they competed all over the continent during the recent holidays.
Luca and Clayton Meyer represented the U18 South Africa team at the World Ice Hockey Championships in Cape Town and won bronze medals after beating Germany in a shoot out.
On the athletics front, Amy Naudé won the U17 girls 400m SA Title competing for KZN and won the U17 Girls’ Schools 400m title.
She is currently participating in the Africa Champs in the Ivory Coast.
Reece Strydom participated for KZN at the SA Biathlon Champs in Cape Town finishing tenth overall in the U17 age group.
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Furthermore, KZN Lifesaving capped Reece Strydom for Surf and Zoë Frank for Stillwater.
The action netball girls had an exciting time as they competed for KZN at the junior and senior nationals. From Ashton were Tiffany Badenhorst – selected in the top 40 overall, Kirsten Russell, Hesca van der Merwe, Rouxlé Johnston, Marget van der Merwe, Caitlin Pansegrouw, Sienna Gahagan and Martina Wiesinger.
To make the sport side even stronger, Ashton is about to open various new sporting facilities.
The new Legacy Indoor Arena is only weeks away from being opened, while the four netball/tennis courts as well as one dedicated tennis court complete with grandstands are not far behind.
The eight new cricket practice nets are progressing well, and this week the installation of new floodlights for both the hockey Astro and the cricket oval/rugby fields on the recently opened sports campus will begin according to Ashton managing director Joe Erasmus.
“The indoor arena which complies to international indoor hockey requirements will also serve as an indoor training area for action netball and indoor cricket and soccer,” said Erasmus.
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