Abingdonian 2018

78 The Abingdonian Crescent House It is always a pleasure writing these articles every year, as it gives me an opportunity to look back and reflect on the impressive and diverse range of activities the boys in Crescent House are involved in. The Other Half is an important part of what makes Abingdon School tick, and as housemaster it makes me proud to see so many of the Crescent boys fully subscribing to that ethos. It has been a successful year in sports for various Crescent boys, and it is always great to see so many excellent individual and team performances. There were some great achievements in the various inter-house competitions throughout the year. In the Michaelmas Term, Crescent students had great success in the badminton competitions, with Perry Tsai winning the U18 singles badminton, and Brian Ho and Tong Tong Sukamongkol coming second. In the U14 competition Finn Wilson and Jacob Drew won the doubles and Jonathan Cai came second in the singles. Overall, Crescent comfortably won the badminton competition. Rory Mitchell won the A string squash, while Peter Zhou and Daniel Keeble won the U16 and U15 pool competitions respectively. In the Lent Term, the Crescent boys again triumphed on the badminton court and pool table. Brian Ho and Jason Ng won the U16 badminton, with Tong Tong Sukamongkol coming second in the singles. Ernest Chu won the U15 singles, while Andrew Jin and Leo Wu won the U15 doubles, meaning overall Crescent were victorious again. In pool, Daniel Keeble won the A competition and Harry Notley won the B competition, to come first overall. The Summer Term brought the inter- house athletics, and various Crescent boys demonstrated their prowess at jumping and throwing. Oliver Heard won the third year high jump, while in the sixth form competition, Freddie Fleck won the high jump, Daniel Ooi won the long jump, Edward Hayes won the shot, and Kai Miles won the discus. On the cricket pitch, the Crescent House U15 team was unlucky not to win the competition for the second year in a row, losing to the eventual winners, Morgan’s, in the semi-final. There were many Crescent boys representing the school in a wide variety of sports, with too many fantastic achievements to include here. Some stand-outs however were Henry Barlow and Freddie Cunningham qualifying for the British Biathlon Championships. Henry and Fergus Mitchell also represented Oxfordshire in the English Schools’ National Cross Country Championships. Kai Miles and Scott Yap were part of the swimming team that broke two county relay records, as well as being part of the U18 Bath & Otter Cup squad that finished ninth in the country. Kai Li excelled in the shooting range, winning a gold medal at the South East Region cadet shooting competition. Off the sports field, Crescent boys did particularly well in a number of mathematics competitions throughout the year. Edmond Wang was part of the winning team in the UKMT Maths Challenge Regional Final, while Sean Kao both competed in the national final of the Senior Team Maths Challenge, coming an impressive 17th, and was a member of the Princeton University mathematics team, which came third out of all overseas entries. Benjamin Adams and Callum Ravden gave excellent performances in the school’s production of Fiddler on the Roof .