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Merchant Taylors’ School
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Henry Stuttaford
(2006-2011)
is now
representing the
Scotland U21 hockey
team. He writes:
“This summer I
represented Scotland in
two U21 international matches.
My hockey career at Merchant
Taylors’ began in the U13 ‘C’ team on
a grass hockey pitch (we won 12-0).
But during my time at the school I was
lucky enough to benefit from the arrival
of Joe Cowan as Head of Hockey and
the upgrading of the hockey facilities.
By the time I left MTS I had worked my
way up to vice-captain of school hockey,
even winning the main hockey trophy
in my final year.
The preparation for the summer
fixtures started at the end of 2012 through
contacting the Scotland Hockey coaching
setup. Given my experience at 1st team
level for the University of Manchester I
was invited to attend hockey camps in the
build up to the summer fixtures as well as
following the fitness programme. Despite
not linking up with the squad for a few
months I was able to stay in touch and
work on my weights and fitness training.
This was clearly very worthwhile as when
I met the squad we had fitness tests pretty
much immediately and whilst I was still
behind on the weights training, my score
on the 30:15 running test proved the joint
highest within all of Great Britain hockey.
In July, the squad played England at the
Lilleshall sports centre. This is a fantastic
place with incredible facilities for a variety
of sports, including video towers, which
meant that both matches were recorded.
The games themselves were both lost
but they were high quality; I felt that I
played well and it was great to be part of
a team with so many good people and
Ravi Patel signs
newMiddlesex
contract
Middlesex spinner,
Ravi
Patel (2004-2009)
has
signed a new three-year
contract, keeping him at
the club until 2016. Ravi
has taken 54 wickets for
Middlesex at an average
of 26.50 across all forms of
the game, with 40 wickets
in 11 first-class matches.
“We have always rated Ravi
as a first-class bowler but
in 2013 he showed how
adaptable and smart he is
by being extremely effective
in Twenty20 cricket,” said
Middlesex Director of
Cricket, Angus Fraser.
Henry Stuttaford
represents
Scotland at hockey
great sportsmen. Whilst it was a slightly
nervous experience I was very proud to be
playing at this level and am now looking
to make the squad for the U21 European
Championships in Portugal 2014.”
