St Edward's Rhubarb 2018

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Tom Loake (A, 2003-2008) has been in touch to tell us that he played lacrosse for Scotland in the 2014 World Cup in Denver, he was captain of Scotland at the 2016 European Championships in Budapest, and he has just been selected for the 2018 World Cup team to compete in Israel in 2019. Tom said he started playing lacrosse at Exeter University having never played before. He played a lot of rugby at Teddies but had to give up at university because of a shoulder injury. Rupert Martin (C, 2003-2008) set up WMP Sports which is a subsidiary of WMP Creative. WMP Sports uses the power of sport to help clients reach, engage and connect with internal and external audiences. Objectives linked to staff engagement and wellbeing, CSR/ charity, brand loyalty and client relationships all benefit hugely from effective sports challenge events. Later this year WMP is organising the Monster Triathlon, UK’s ultimate multi-sport challenge. It starts with a 5km swim in Loch Ness, before five stunning days on the bike, and finishes with a 50km ultra-marathon along the Thames! http://www.monstertriathlon. org . WMP also offer The Climb which provides a premium cycling experience for participants with all features covered in the ultimate one-day corporate cycling event. With the financial services industries in mind, it has been designed to support client and colleague hospitality, and industry networking http://theclimb.cc .

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Grace Robinson

Tom Loake

2010 Georgina Matthews (D, 2008-2010) let us know that she is now an Information Compliance Officer at the University of Oxford. Grace Robinson (K, 2005-2010) competed in the World Ironman African Championships on Sunday 15th April in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She represented her triathlon club in a field of 2,500 competitors from across the world including elite athletes representing their country. The race itself comprised 2.4 miles swimming, 112 miles cycling and 26.2 miles running all in one go. Grace completed the race in 14 hours and is due to attempt her

next one on August Bank Holiday Sunday in Vichy, France where she wants to beat her time and go sub 12hr 30min. Richard Sansom (C, 2005-2010) directed UCL’s production of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata at the Shaw Theatre, London in February 2018. 2011 Sebastian de Souza (E, 2006-2011) filmed the second season of Medici: Masters of Florence in Rome in August 2017 playing Sandro Botticelli. He also starred in Maigret in Montmartre at the end of 2017 and played Edmund in Ophelia alongside Daisy Ridley.

Zoe Shipperley (D, 2003-2008) was selected to represent Great Britain in hockey against Argentina in February this year. 2009 Chloe Caws (2004-2009) wrote in to tell us that a group of 24 OSE (plus 1 fiancé) had their own Christmas drinks reunion! They are all 2009 leavers and still manage to meet up regularly, although not normally in quite such a large group!

2009 Leavers' Christmas drinks