On Sunday 11th June, the Blues progressed through to the 2nd Round of the Cricketer Cup with an impressive victory against the Repton Pilgrims in front of a sizeable (but socially distanced!) crowd up at the XI, including several Old Marlburians and the 1980 cup winning team enjoying their postponed 40 year reunion. Captain Ed […]
On Monday 7 June 2021, the Old Marlburian Golfing Society (OMGS) put forward a team in The Silver Tassie, a ladies golf competition for alumnae of independent schools. See the OMGS page for the full report.
Golfers at the school were delighted to tee it up against a team of OMs in our annual fixture at Marlborough Golf Club. Led by Captain of Golf Tom Stephenson-Green (B1 L6), the school team of 10 triumphed in the Greensome pairs format, coming out on top 3.5/1.5. Some battling golf was played, with scratch […]
On a bright and sunny Sunday morning a formidable OM team of Mike Orange (PR 1986-91), Andrew Knatchbull (B1 1983-88), Ed Gregg (C2 1988-93) and Phil French (SU 1989-94) arrived at Queen Mary Reservoir to do battle in the ATYRA fleet racing. Superbly organised by the Royal Thames Yacht Club, there were a total of […]
Congratulations to Alex Russell (C2 2010-14) who has been included in the Canada 7’s squad for their forthcoming round of fixtures. Alex now travels to Dubai with the Canadian squad to take part in the Emirates Invitational 7s. The trip will include two tournament weekends for a number of the best rugby sevens teams in […]
Tonight at 5.30pm on Zoom, Dominic Coulson (C1 2013-18) and Millie McKelvey (EL 2013-18) will be taking part in a virtual Rackets Q&A with Mike Bush. Both Dom and Millie were two time Queen’s singles champions during their time at Marlborough. They were also excellent all round contributors to College sport. Dom captained the […]
The Thames Hare and Hound Alumni Race 2020 will take place, albeit in a different way to normal, on 12th December 2020. This year the event will be virtual, enabling those who find it tricky to get to Wimbledon to participate, and will take place between 0001 and 2359 GMT on Saturday Dec 12th. To […]
Last Saturday saw this summer’s first Blues fixture on the XI, as the postponed encounter scheduled for Prize Day against the College finally took place. Before the match it was a privilege for the school side to have OMs Alex Combe (PR 2010-15) and Finn Campbell (C1 2010-15) present caps to the XI debutants in […]
Ben Spink (SU 2015-20) received a shirt signed by Sir Andrew Strauss at Sunday’s cricket match v Sherborne. Spink’s #run100toraise100 charity initiative during lockdown raised £5,522.16 for NHS Together, Ruth Strauss Foundation & Cricket Without Boundaries. Ben is pictured here with Charlie Harrison, Housemaster of Summerfield, who made the presentation. It was a productive afternoon […]
The Blues retained the CMJ trophy on Sunday, beating a Radley Rangers side by 98 runs. Game was brilliantly set up by a patient 74 from Alex Combe (PR 2010-15) and some powerful hitting from Chris Freeman (SU 2010-15) and Will Davies (C3 2012-17) to finish. Will then went on to take 5-30 as the […]