YOUNG sports stars celebrated in style as their efforts were recognised in a host of disciplines.
Students from The King’s Academy, Coulby Newham, collected their honours at a special sports review evening.
Principal Chris Drew told them: “We are all very proud of what you have achieved this year, those who have enjoyed success by winning and also those athletes who have put so much effort into improving their skills.”
Head of PE John Stewart outlined the academy’s successes in a range of sports including netball, hockey, rugby, football, cross-country, athletics, cricket and wheelchair basketball.
“Over the year students took part in 155 events, an average of four per week, and we are really grateful for their hard work and success,” he added.
Robert Bishop took the Outstanding Achievement in Sport Award after recently taking up rugby and athletics and proving to be a natural talent, overcoming his hearing disability.
The academy also enjoyed considerable success in Sportsability winning the Sainsbury’s Tees Valley Schools Games Panathlon and Inclusive Football competition, while Jamie Blott qualified as the youngest member of the Cerebral Palsy England swimming squad and Aiden Atkinson and Chad Nixon took the Outstanding Achievement in wheelchair basketball accolade.
Hannah Dixon was the winner of the Marton Furness Hockey Club junior award, while in netball the U14 team was joint winner of the Middlesbrough Schools League, and the Year 8 team won the Middlesbrough Schools Netball Tournament.
In athletics, Libby Hedger and Steven Wheater represented Cleveland in the English Schools competition, while county honours went to Hannah Dixon, Maddie Clare, Ethan Cope, James Harvey, Marcellus Kerr, Thomas Hustwitt and Kirsty Weledji.
