The Abingdonian 2019

30 The Abingdonian 30 www.abingdon.org.uk Basketball 2018-2019 was a fantastic season for the Basketball Club. We won all matches apart from one, which was a phenomenal performance. This was the best set of stats for the club for many years. We secured some great wins against strong teams like Stowe, MCS, and Radley amongst others. One outstanding fixture was MCS away when we were 11 points down in the last quarter. The team dug deep to score a winning 3 pointer in the dying seconds of the match - a truly memorable performance! The team has been captained by Win and Adewale (who has also trained in the USA) who have both done a great job in guiding and nurturing the squad both on and off the court. There have been some great rallying team talks which have turned around big games and helped us to win some key matches. What has really impressed me is that they never gave up in matches - they kept their heads until the very end and were great sportsmen throughout. It has been a real pleasure to get to know these boys over the last five years and to see them develop into such fine athletes. The squad this season consisted of: Vincent Chen, Adewale Adebutu, Win Kongpin, Archie Delafield, Kai Miles, Brian Lim, Chuka Okonjo, Max Upton, Tony Du, Oliver Deans, Ivan Chan, Jason Chan and Min Laohavisit. Thank you all; we will miss our leavers and we wish you well. We look forward to developing our squad to fill the big shoes left by our leavers. I would also like to thank Dr Frampton and Miss Fraile for their coaching support in the club. Well done! Paul Gooding