The answer is heartfelt. After securing first place in our division in the previous year, Harrow football team understandably has sky-high expectations for the coming season. Interestingly, this time around, our squad includes several first-year senior students who are looking to add to the impressive results seen in their U14 campaign.

With a combination of youth and experience, our team has a natural sense of exuberance about this upcoming season; it is strikingly similar to the sudden optimism our coach, Mr Thomson, shares with regards to the outlook of Manchester United. Our football season has kicked off with a sequence of friendlies. The first was played against Island School: a close encounter resulting in a loss.

With the majority of the fixtures being played at home this year, our team will look to improve, starting off with a string of victories as we enter An opening basket and our season gets under away. Led by two highly experienced and tactical coaches, our formidable U20 line-up began our first match in a rather remarkable fashion.

Playing at home, we displayed high levels of talent and a desire to win, finishing the match with a win against Canadian International School. The following match presented us with a new challenge, as we had to face a school whose team had played together for a number of years. Although we fell short, a victory to Island School, we realised the potential that our team possessed. Since the defeat, we have been training hard as a unit to improve our defensive intensity and our movement off the ball when attacking.

Furthermore, we have created one or two new tactical plays as we look to continue to improve our performances. Undoubtedly, we all have one goal in mind and that is a trophy at the end of the season.

The tennis season begun in front of our home spectators, and despite the inevitable nerves and butterflies that come with these competitive matches, we produced an encouraging performance. As a collective unit, we built upon our promising start to the season and once again, delivered some inspiring performances. Despite losing several key members due to injuries, clashes in sporting events and other commitments, the team stayed strong and presented immense versatility.

Rather impressively, some students represented the team for the very first time and quickly instilled youth, energy and passion into our 1st XV. Understandably, the new make-up of the team left something to be desired at times as we struggled against our opponents RCHK in a tough defeat, which ended However, with the season winding down and the final game of the campaign to be played, we performed strongly and left the pitch knowing that we had given our all.

The score line against CIS, a narrow defeat, encourages our team to build upon this initial season and exhibit greater levels of play in forthcoming tournaments. Mr John Leung is a retired professional badminton player with many victories and achievements.

Harrow Hong Kong is privileged to have Mr John Leung teach students from the Prep School all the way to the Senior School on how to achieve the highest level of play in badminton.

They set up friendly matches, which eventually lead up to a tournament. Currently, he is preparing the team to compete in January. The tournament posed an extreme challenge for everyone in the Harrow Hong Kong team. He aims to pass on his expertise and mastery to future generations of badminton players. He teaches beginners who have an interest in the sport all the way to aspiring professionals. With his time, dedication and lots of patience, he transforms our students who want to take badminton seriously into top quality players.

Hard work, determination and team spirit are the core of what he believes make a successful badminton team. Each player has a role and there are specific mind sets that I want them to adopt. I want them to improve their position and their techniques so I make them strive to better themselves.

Firstly, the pool was completely different to the one we were used to, being over two metres deep so none of us were able to stand; instead we had to tread water and swim for over 30 minutes each game.

Secondly, many of the other schools had been training for years. However, game after game, it was clear that we were improving steadily. In our first match, we tried a man marking defence, which proved to not work at all.

Since our team only had one substitute in the morning, the opposing team could easily tire us out and then swim right past us, giving them quick and easy shots and points.

On the attack, the opposition would try to hold us under the water without the referee seeing, making it almost impossible to move around. Before starting game two, the team discussed, planned, watched, and with the help of Mr Green, devised some new tactics.

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