In February 2008 the college held an open evening to celebrate the sporting elite and the opening of the school's new facilities. There were demonstrations of golf, archery, karate, dance mats, fitness suite, trampolining and karting. Danny Crates, World Champion, Paralympic Champion, European Champion and Paralympic World Cup Winning athlete gave a very inspirational speech at the evening and met with many of the students taking part.

Below is a list of some of our students who have gained honours in sport at County level or above.

Ben Grimwood 10 Rugby Suffolk
Liz Thurlow 8 Basketball National League
Mark Billington 8 Karate England squad
Sam Brandon 10 Football ITFC
Keifer Bultitude 10 Football Suffolk
Ellie Clark 11 Rugby Eastern Counties
Shannon Goodrum 11 Football Suffolk
Arlethia Gordon-Graham 10 Various sports through cadets Suffolk
Kyle Hammond 7 Football Suffolk
Kyle Hedges 10 Rugby Suffolk
Danni Jordan 7 Karate Black Belt - National Champion
Lewis Last 8 Golf Suffolk
Jenna Liverpool 11 Football Suffolk
Robert Murphy 10 Fishing Suffolk
Takudzwa Nyakupinda 8 Basketball and Rugby County and Regional
Reece Page 10 Fishing Suffolk
Emma Reynolds 11 Fishing Suffolk
David Shermann 11 Archery Suffolk
Andrew Shermann 8 Archery Suffolk
Luke Sudeen 10 Boxing Suffolk
Vic Thurlow 8 Basketball National League
Luke Wade 10 Football ITFC
Jack Williams 8 Gymnastics National competition
Ben Wilson 10 Cycling (road and track) Essex 2007

Westbourne students's are very keen on sport and the school runs many sports teams in various different activities. Below is a summary of the years' successes.

Sport: Athletics Year group: 7

Fixtures played / results:
•Ipswich Schools Team Competition 4th Place

Notable performances:
Curtis Pryke and Charlie Gilbert (1st place in Hurdles). Tomi Akintaju and Kyle Hammond (2nd place 100m).

Athlete of the Year: Kyle Hammond

Sport: Athletics Year group: 8

Fixtures played / results:

•Ipswich Team Athletics Championships – 6th place

Notable performances:
Just a great team effort and support between the boys and girls.

Athlete of the Year: Matty Hayward

Sport: Athletics Year group: 9

Fixtures played / results:
• Ipswich Team Athletics Championships – 5th place

Notable performances:
Taylor West and Louis Summers both competing against each other to win both the ‘A’ and ‘B’ string high jump competition.

Athlete of the Year: Louis Summers

Sport: Athletics Year group: 10
Fixtures played / results:

• Ipswich Team Athletics Championships – 5th place

Notable performances:
Many of the Yr 10 football team were also playing in the Suffolk Cup Football final (vs Claydon) the same evening yet still gave 100%. Jay Grimes taking first place in the 200m and Long Jump.

Athlete of the Year: Jay Grimes

Sport: Cross Country Year group: 7-11

Fixtures played / results:
• Suffolk Schools Championship (Round 1) – 4 runners qualified
• Suffolk Schools Championship (Round 2) – 1 qualified
• Anglian Championships (Norwich) – James Powley represents Suffolk

Notable performances:
At the Chantry Park event Sian Starling and Faye Handebeaux gave excellent accounts of themselves as ‘first timers’ and recorded very respectable times.

Runner of the Year: James Powley

Sport: Trampolining Year group: 10

Fixtures played / results:
• Schools Sports Partnership Competition
3rd, 4th and 5th Individual placings
1st place in the team event

Notable performances:
Excellent compulsory and voluntary routines from Karl Downes, Chris Harvey, Adam Prentice and Oliver Quinton.

Performer of the Year: Oliver Quinton

Sport: Football Year group: 7
Fixtures played / results:
• National Cup v Brentwood - Won (4 - 2) penalties
• National Cup v Stewards School – Won (6 – 2)
• National Cup v Eastwood School – Lost (6 – 2)
• Suffolk Cup v Stoke – Won (7 – 4)
• Suffolk Cup v Chantry – Won (2 – 0)
• Suffolk Cup v Scaltback – Lost (3 – 2)
• 5-a-side tournament – 2nd place

Notable performances:
Reaching the ¼ finals of the Suffolk Cup, Daniel sorrel scoring 7 goals against Stoke and being runners up in the Ipswich 5-a-side tournament.

Player of the Year: Daniel Sorrell

Sport: Football Year group: 8
Fixtures played / results:
• Stoke – Won (5 – 1)
• Copleston – Draw (1 – 1)
• Kesgrave – Lost (5 – 0)
• Holywells – Lost (4 - 2)
• Northgate – Draw (3 – 3)
• Deben – Won (3 – 1)

Notable performances:
A hat trick from Matty Hayward against Stoke and a second hat trick from Kyle Hammond against Deben (playing a year above his age group!).

Player of the Year: Jake Ward

Sport: Football Year group: 9

Fixtures played / results:
• Copleston – Lost (3 - 2)
• Holywells – Won (1 – 0)
• Kesgrave – Won (2 - 1)
• Hadleigh – Won (3 – 2)
• Northgate – Lost (2 – 1)
• East Bergholt – Draw (1 – 1)

Notable performances:
Managing wins against Holywells and Kesgrave who were both unbeaten until they played Westbourne.

Player of the Year: Taylor West
Team Report
Sport: Football Year group: 10
Fixtures played / results:
• Deben – Won (4 – 2)
• St Albans – Lost (5 – 4)
• Kesgrave – Draw (2 – 2)
• Claydon - Lost (4 - 0)
• Holywells – Lost (6 – 4)
• Plume – won (4 – 3)
• Stoke – Won (3 – 1)
• Samuel Ward – Won (3 – 1)
• Sir John Lehman – Won (4 – 2)
• Claydon – Lost (3 – 2)

Notable performances:
Reaching the final of the John Turner Suffolk cup and only narrowly being beaten by Claydon.

Player of the Year: Tom Mahoney

Sport: Football Year Group: Sixth Form

Fixtures played / results:
• Northgate – Lost (3 – 1)
• Kesgrave – Won (2 – 1)
• Farlingaye – Lost (7 - 3)
• St Albans – Won (5 – 2)

Notable performances:
Northgate away first game of the season, starting with 10 men and then losing another due to injury. Held them to 1 – 1 until 5 minutes before full time.

Player of the Year: Matty Horn

Team Report
Sport: Football Year group: Girls
Fixtures played / results:
• Ipswich 5-a-side tournament – 3rd place overall.

Notable performances:
Excellent efforts from the whole squad and missing out narrowly for a final place by only losing 1 game in total.

Player of the Year: Tia Norris

Sport: Netball Year group: 7
Fixtures played / results:

• Holywells – Won
• Ipswich Schools – Lost
• Copleston – Lost
• Stoke – Won
• Kesgrave – Lost

Notable performances:
Ella Flack for her consistently good attitude. Veronique Hack’s excellent shooting, Chelsea Wardley for superb defensive work and Faye Handebeaux and Amelia Dodge who both joined late in the season and made a very positive impact.

Player of the Year: Ella Flack

Team Report
Sport: Netball Year group: 8
Fixtures played / results:
• Ipswich High – Lost (35 – 3)
• Kesgrave – Lost (22 – 4)
• Stoke – Lost (6 – 2)
• Holywells – Lost (14 -2)

Notable performances:
A continued improvement in the whole team performance as the season progressed.

Player of the Year: Millie Bull

Sport: Netball Year group: 9

Fixtures played / results:
• Kesgrave – Lost (29 -1)
• Orwell – Lost (15 – 5)
• Copleston – Lost (19 - 8)
• Northgate – Lost (18 – 4)
• Ipswich School – Lost (10 – 6)

Notable performances:
Team performance grew as season progressed

Player of the Year: Marissa Brame

Sport: Netball Year group: 10
Fixtures played / results:
• Ipswich High – Conceeded
• Kesgrave – Lost (28 – 9)
• Copleston – Lost (25 – 10)
• Woodbridge – Lost (36 - 4)
• Claydon – Lost (11 – 9)

Notable performances:
Some excellent individual and team performances, especially towards the end of the season.

Player of the Year: Tilly Woods

Sport: Netball Year group: 11

Fixtures played / results:
• Kesgrave – Lost (18 -12)
• Woodbridge – Lost (22 – 20)
• Copleston – Won (17 - 14)
• Holywells – Draw (11 – 11)
• Ipswich School – Lost (20 – 11)

Notable performances:
A very good final season whilst students were having to cope with the pressures of GCSE exams.

Player of the Year: Yasmin Hunt

Sport: Rounders Year group: 10/11
Fixtures played / results:
• RHS – Won (6 ½ - 5 ½ )
• St Joseph’s – Lost (5 ½ - 4 ½ )
• Farlingaye – Won (5 ½ - 3 )

• Chantry – Won (7 ½ - 3 ½ )

• Ipswich High – Lost (7 ½ - 1 ½ )

Notable performances:
An outstanding team effort (including subs) in particular at the U15 tournament (3rd place overall).

Player of the Year: Daisy Osman

Sport: Rugby Year group: 7

Fixtures played / results:
• Regional 12-a-side tournaments – knocked out in final group stages

Notable performances:
Continued perseverance a long losing streak.

Player of the Year: Brandon Watson

Sport: Rugby Year group: 8
Fixtures played / results:

• Chantry – Won (28 -17)
• Ipswich Schools Tournament – 5th place
• Emerging Schools Cup – 4th place

Notable performances:
PJ Loveridge for not missing one training session, Taku Nyakupinda for numerous outstanding performances and Jake and Kieron Lally for considerable improvement throughout the season.

Player of the Year: Taku Nyakupinda

Sport: Rugby Year group: 9

Fixtures played / results:

• Ipswich Schools Tournament – 1st place
• Copleston – Won (34 – 20)
• Northgate – Won (29 – 12)

Notable performances:
Jason Watson for his superb tackling and try scoring. Charlie Lidderth for non-stop effort in all games. Alex Stevenson for developing into an outstanding player and Taylor West for displaying excellent leadership skills throughout the season.

Player of the Year: Jason Watson and Alex Stevenson

Sport: Rugby Year group: 10
Fixtures played / results:

• Bungay (Daily Mail Cup) – Lost (44 -5)

Notable performances:
Ben Grimwood, Kyle Hedges, Sam Goodwin Andy Masters and Nathan Brett all played fantastically well.

Player of the Year: Kyle Hedges

Team Report
Sport: Rugby Year group: 11

Fixtures played / results:

• Ipswich Schools Tournament – 3rd place
• Copleston – Lost (25 – 17)
• Thurlston – Won (44 – 13)

Notable performances:
Neil Parry with a constant display of skill and speed. Jake Goodwin as the most promising player and Jordan Schaffer who has developed into a talented and knowledgeable forward.

Player of the Year: Jordan Schaffer