b'SportHarvey Cucksons Successful Try for England RugbyHarvey Cuckson, Year 12, has been selected to play for English Rugby Under 18s squad and will now to go on to play international fixtures for this age group, with a view to progressing to the senior level.Hes been playing for Worcester Warriors for four years and is delighted to be named in the final England squad after a lot of hard work. He said: I am really pleased. This is something I have always aimed for and I am so pleased I have made the cut. I have had a few injuries and there has been a lot of disruption throughout the Coronavirus pandemic, as you would expect, but all my practice has paid off. There is a lot of work to do now though and I am looking forward to getting stuck in to playing with and learning from the best of the best.Harvey has been involved in various England training camps since Christmas. The camps were made up of over 90 players from the English Premiership academies and numbers were gradually whittled down.Alex Murphy, Director of Rugby at Ellesmere College, said he is incredibly proud that Harvey has made the final squad.This selection is the result of a lot of hard work and focus, he said. Harvey is part of talented cohort of players at Ellesmere in the Rugby Academy that have displayed an exemplary attitude towards training and personal development while their domestic rugby season has been severely disrupted. Harvey has embraced the training opportunities that have been available to him and for the past four years has been making the trip to Worcester Warriors academy training every week, which is obviously very time consuming on top of his academic studies. He has displayed great resilience in overcoming a number of difficult injuries last year while also persevering with his own training while Coronavirus put a stop to rugby across the country.Ellesmere College ranked in Top 20 of UKs top 200 sporting schoolsEllesmere College is celebrating being named the 17th best school for sport in the whole of the UK.The prestigious honour was revealed in the latest annual ranking of the top 200 sporting schools across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by School Sport Magazine. The scale of the achievement in this latest table, covering 2020, is huge with the nearest geographical school to Ellesmere College in the top 200 being just inside the Top 100.Brendan Wignall, Headmaster, said: We are absolutely delighted with the news which emphasises our schools place among the UKs sporting schools elite. Its an amazing achievement and recognises the hard work and achievements of our students and coaches along with the ongoing success of our Sporting Academies and Sports Scholarship programme.School Sport Magazine is a prestigious publication and produces a highly respected Top 200 guide to the best schools which is eagerly anticipated every year. We are regularly ranked in the top 50 in this annual table - a remarkable achievement for a school of our size - but to now be in the top 20 is fantastic.EllesmereCollellesmerecollellesmere_college12'