Congratulations to King Edward VII School Old Boy – Dr Jayson Dallas Class of 1985 on his recent appointment as Chief Commercial Officer and Senior Vice President for Ultragenyx.
Click on the given link to read more:
Well done on this fine achievement and the King Edward Community applaud your appointment and wish you continued success and happiness in this new venture.
King Edward VII School Old Boy, Andrew Gerber (Deputy Head Prefect Class of 1993) has been a part of an amazing adventure. Thanks to Andrew’s Dad, Lewis Gerber (Class of 1960) who wrote in and told us about what our Old Boy has been up to.
Andrew has been part of an expedition team that has halved the World Record for the crossing of Greenland (along the Arctic Circle).
Click on the given link to read more of what Andrew and his Team achieved:
The Cape Argus also ran an article on this amazing adventure and challenge:
Andrew was also the first South African to walk to the South Pole and still holds the World Record for the fastest time to the North Pole.
After growing up in South Africa, Andrew moved to the UK at the age of sixteen. An avid rower, sailor and skier, Andrew’s first expedition experience was to the South Pole in 2002 with Tom and Patrick. He was a key member of the 2005 North Pole expedition with Tom and George, which was the culmination of a multi-year project. Many weeks were spent training in the polar conditions of Baffin Island in northern Canada the previous year as the team built their replica wooden sledges, tested equipment and drive dog teams for hundreds of miles across the desolate Meta Incognita Peninsula.
Andrew is a director of the Romanian Commercial Bank in Bucharest in Romania, where he lives with his wife Rowena, and their four children, Nicholas, Thomas, Mary and Annabel.
Congratulations Andrew on this fantastic feat and know the Red Community are extremely proud of you!
Photos of Andrew and the Greenland Challenge Team:
What a treat for us on Thursday, 21 May, as King Edward VII School Old Boy & Protea cricketer, Quinton De Kock visited his alma mater.
Quinton kindly donated a signed Protea ODI shirt, to our Headmaster, Mr Lovatt that will now be framed and displayed in a place of honour at King Edward.
Thank you Quinny, your Red Community are huge fans and followers of your cricketing career.
Best wishes for upcoming series for the Proteas. We know you’ll display some awesome #ProteaFire
Go Quinny! Go School.
Quinny with School coach, Mr Eugene Marx
Congratulations to King Edward VII School 1st Team cricketer, Liam Smith on been named, ‘The Gauteng u17 Boys Player of the Year’ at the Gauteng Cricket Awards evening on the 13 May 2015.
Fantastic achievement Liam- your School applauds.
Further awards also went to KES Old Boys and Old Edwardian cricketers:
Stephen Cook (Gauteng Batsman of the Year) and Neil McKenzie (Gauteng Cricketer of the Year).
Huge applause and congratulations to our Red cricketers.
Liam Smith in action for KES 1ST XI
Neil McKenzie- RED LEGEND
Stephen Cook- RED Leader!
King Edward VII School Old Boy, Rupert Kaminski, Class of 2014, finished 2nd at the SA Strokeplay Championship held in PE over the 6-8 February.
It was a nail biting finish as Rupert was joint leader after round 2 and solo leader after round 3. In the 4th round Rupert shot a 72 and finished 2nd on a total score of -12. His 4 rounds for the tournament were 68 67 69 72.
Rupert was the highest placed South African in the tournament and the winner was Ugo Coussaud from France.
Click on the given link for: Tournament Handicaps
Congratulations Rupert and keep up the good work!
King Edward VII School Old Boys Association entered two Old Boys Teams into the ‘Touch Jam Inaugural Touch Rugby Tournament’ held at WITS over the weekend of 6-7 December.
Both Old Boy’s sides did extremely well on the weekend at the Touch Jam and won their respective pools as well as their semi-final matches; meeting one another in the finals. It was a well-balanced game with Mzwake Nkosi’s team taking the spoils at the end (6-3).
Well done to our Old Boys and we hope to see more of our ‘REDS’ competing in upcoming tournaments during 2015.
Congratulations to the following King Edward VII School Old Boys on receiving recognition & deserved accolades at recent rugby awards evenings for the 2014 season:
* Malcolm Marx- u21 Forward Player of the Year- Golden Lions
* Godfrey Ramaboea- u19 Backline Player of the Year- Golden Lions
* Dylan Pieterse- u19 Player of the Year- Pumas
Fantastic achievements by our Old Boys. Wishing them all much success into the 2015 season.
Malcolm Marx
Godfrey Ramaboea
Dylan Pieterse
King Edward VII School Old Boy, bizhub Highveld Lions ODI Captain and Premier OES cricketer, Stephen Cook was named as the 2014 Sportsman of the Year at the Old Edwardians Awards Evening on the 20 November 2014. For his performances with the bizhub Highveld Lions as well as being made captain of the SA Invitational team that played against India and Australia last year, it was a well deserved award for Stephen.
There were joint runners up in Gus Pinker and Dion Willis for their officiating at world water polo events.
The President, Tutty Faber, presented the awards and here is the full list of winners:
Sportsman of the Year: Stephen Cook – cricket
Runners up: Gus Pinker and Dion Willis – water polo
Best female junior: Faye Keighley – swimming
Best male junior: Cameron Peterson – tennis
Best schoolboy playing sport for the Society: Grant Roelofsen – cricket
Best performance by a senior: Linda Icely – athletics
Team award: 1st cricket team
Sportsmanship award: Tim Johnston
Sub club of the year: Water polo
Chairmans award: Kevin Webber
Congratulations to all the 2014 award winners, especially ‘well done’ to the King Edward lads in the mix of winners.
King Edward VII School Old Boy, Kyle Marshall (Class of 2007) has been signed by Barnoldswick Cricket Club for 2015. Kyle was a member of the King Edward 1st XI.
Reported on the Club’s website:
BARNOLDSWICK have moved swiftly to secure the services of Easterns’ seam bowling all-rounder Kyle Marshall for 2015.
Marshall (24) is an explosive seam bowling all-rounder who has featured for Easterns in 29 domestic matches since his first-class and list-A debut’s in February 2011.
A genuine match-winner, Marshall opens the bowling and bats middle-lower order at provincial level for Easterns, but bats higher in the order at club level.
To date, the former King Edwards student has taken 29 wickets at 28.03 in first-class cricket. He boasts best bowling figures of 7-52 (17.2) against a star-studded Western Province side that included the likes of Richard Levi, Alistair Gray, Pieter Malan, SA Engelbrecht and Bradley Barnes.
With the bat, whilst he only averages 13.19 and 17.16 in first-class and list-A respectively, this in the main has been due to limited opportunities that said, he does boast highest scores of 47 (FC) and 50 (List-A) at provincial level.
It will be Marshall’s first season as a professional in the UK and he’s eager to impress and help the Ribblesdale club to success next summer.
For more info and to view Kyle’s Profile click on given link: KYLE MARSHALL
Congratulations Kyle and much success overseas and we look forward to following your career!
Congratulations to King Edward VII School Old Boy, Keaton Jennings (Head Prefect 2010), on his recent cricketing award.
Keaton was awarded, ‘Young Player of the Year 2014’ award for the Durham Cricket Club at their recent season awards ceremony.
Well done and know the King Edward Community is very proud of your achievements and wish you further success into the future.
