HIGH standards in sport are being maintained at Lymm High School.

Pupils ranging from under 14s to u18s are training with county sides while the u13s tennis team reached the semi-finals of the British Schools Association's national championships last week.

Alex Newell, Mike Ward, Paul Slater, Lawrence Sarkar and Luke Watson showed great team work in their achievement but found the team from John Pater School, near Derby, to be too strong.

Hockey matches against other northern counties have started for Sophie Griffiths, who is in the Cheshire u16s squad, and Charlotte Robertson and Olivia Ritchie, who are in the u15s set-up. Olivia is also in the Cheshire u16s netball and soccer squads and in the latter she has company from Charlotte.

Olivia Roberts and Kelly Porter are in the developing u14s hockey squad.

Other girls flying the flag for Lymm are, in netball, Lydia Smith, Greater Manchester u18s; Kelly Archbold, Cheshire u18s; Katherine France, Kirsty Williams, Lauren Rowe and Laura Tetlow, Cheshire u16s; Charlotte Newell, Cheshire u14s; in soccer, Jenny Probert, Cheshire u16s.

The boys are setting high standards in Rugby Union with eight training in the Cheshire u18s squad. They are captain Stuart Wright, Andrew Roberts, Joe Knowles, Tom Mann, Josh Corrigan, Adam Bray, Tom Mantell, Kyle Holcroft.

Cheshire's u16s squad features Bruce Rose, Bobby Gould, Glenn Howson, Ben Potts, Matthew Hennessey, Matthew Barnes-Smith and Ian Rogers.

Tom Robinson, Jake Emmett and Keith Rowley are in the u15s ranks.