Team Redgrave

Olympic gold medallist rower, Sir Steve Redgrave, has proved himself the greatest Olympian Britain has ever produced. After striking gold in Sydney 2000 he became our only athlete ever to have won Gold Medals at five consecutive Olympic Games.

In 2009, when The Hayesbrook School made the transition to vertical tutoring, and the Team names were announced, Sir Steve Redgrave was so honoured to have been chosen as a vertical tutor house name that he sent all the pupils of Redgrave a signed photo with the message 'achieve your dreams'.  This is now our motto and pupils of Team Redgrave are encouraged to achieve their dreams regardless of how far fetched they may seem just as Sir Steve Redgrave himself did in his unbelievable career.

In the first year of vertical tutoring, Team Redgrave finished runners up in the Team Trophy, winning numerous subject prizes throughout the year!  It is hoped that in 2011, we can take GOLD!

TEAM LEADER: MR BULL
PASTORAL SUPPORT MANAGER: MRS HARRINGTON
SENIOR LEADER: MRS BERRYMAN

Sir Steve Redgrave

A lot of water has passed under the bridge for Steve since winning his fifth gold medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Despite the earlier famous request to "shoot me if you see me in a boat again" in Atlanta, Sydney marked the end of a long and extraordinary career in competitive sport that resulted in Steve winning an unprecedented five Gold Medals in consecutive Olympic games.

Gold for the Coxed Fours in Los Angeles in 1984, followed by Gold with his previous partner Andy Holmes in the Coxless Pairs at Seoul in 1988, Gold with partner Matthew Pinsent for the Coxless Pairs at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and of course, the famous win in the Coxless Fours at the Sydney Olympics.

In addition to his Olympic successes and following four unbeaten seasons from 1993 to 1996, Steve won his ninth World Championship Gold in August 1999 in St Catherines, Canada. His previous World Championship Golds were in 1986, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 and 1998.

He has also won many other honours in the sport over the past eleven years, including the Henley Royal Regatta Diamond Sculls several times and the Silver Goblets a record seven times. In 1986 Steve became a Triple Commonwealth Gold Medallist at Edinburgh, winning the Single Scull, Coxless Pairs, and Coxed Four. His other sporting interests include golf and winter sports, and during the 1989/90 season, he was a member of the British Bobsleigh Team.

Together with partner Matthew Pinsent, Steve was the holder of the World Record in Coxless Pairs set in Lucerne in 1994 until 2002 and still retains the Olympic Record, set in Atlanta in 1996. Steve and Matt enjoyed an exclusive sponsorship deal with Lombard, which allowed them to devote all their time to training for international regattas and to winning more honours for Great Britain.

Already established as the world's most outstanding rower of all time after his Atlanta victory, Steve announced in 1997 that he had decided to carry on competing through to the Millennium Games in Sydney in the hope of winning a fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal - a feat which has confirmed him as one of the greatest athletes in Olympic history.

Steve was awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List in 1987 and the CBE in the New Year's Honours List of 1997 and following his success in Sydney was awarded a Knighthood in the 2001 New Years Honours List. The University of Durham also awarded him an Honorary Degree in December 1996.