KNYSNA NEWS - The Oakhill Knysna Chukka Festival for high schools water polo teams took place at Thesen Harbour Town from February 27 to March 1 and hosted 27 excited and energetic teams from all over South Africa.
Oakhill School would like to thank SANParks for the spectacular venue, as well as all the schools and supporters that visited Knysna. The stars of the day, however, were the polo players. The teams excelled and played their hearts out in tough games!
The award ceremony took place on Saturday evening at Oakhill School, where the top goal scorers of the festival, as well as the most valuable player on each team were acknowledged. For the preparatory school's leg of the festival, held the previous weekend, Oakhill celebrated being recognised as top goal scorer in both the girls' and boys' categories, while the college’s top goal scorers were from Pinelands and Graeme College.
· Oakhill - Dimitre Papgis (boys) and Tamara Foyn (girls);
· Bridge House - Stephan Naude and Sam Stevens (boys) and Cimon Saayman (girls);
· Camps Bay High School - Dylan Phillips (boys) and Jessica Way (girls);
· Collegiate - Emma Hobson;
· DSG - Michelle De Kock and Emma Davidson (DSG u/16);
· Fish Hoek High School - Joshua Rice (boys) and Skiegh Herman (girls);
· Graeme College - Thomas Vos;
· Grey High School - Ross Edwards;
· Parklands College - Michael Nesbitt (boys) and Derryn Williams (girls);
· Pearson High School - Jacques Potgieter (boys) and Ashley Duffy (girls);
· Pinelands - Farouk Mayman (boys);
· Reddam House - Angela van Dijk;
· Woodridge College - Gregor Whitehead (boys) and Amelia Hanegraaf (girls);
· Wynberg Boys High School - Micheil MacDonald;
· Wynberg Girls High School - Amber Rose Bailey;
· York High School - Keanu Wells (boys) and Emma Kiely (girls).
Oakhill's girls first team with their coach Adolf Groenewald and manager Robyn Humphreys.
The Oakhill Knysna Chukka Festival was focused mainly on water polo, but wonderful friendships were also kindled. From left are Kendra Underwood (Oakhill), Caitlin Quinlan (Oakhill), Bella Fulford (Reddam), Caroline Pichler (Oakhill), Gabi Cox (Oakhill), Gabriella Swartz and (Woodridge). Photos: Petra Quinlan.
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