Despite torrential rain and howling gales the National Girls' Schools Arena Polo Tournament was played at Longdole Polo Club on 4th March 2007. Many thanks go to Bridget and Christopher Hanbury for their generous hospitality - their arena playing surface being a great advert for the name “all weather”, as it coped admirably with all that was thrown at it on Sunday. Thank you to all who braved the lashing rain with good humour, good grace and soaking wet clothes!!! Although the weather deteriorated the play got better and better, finishing with a cracking finale to the Championships. We welcomed two new schools, Perse and Channing. We hope that they have now dried out and are looking forward to more SUPA Tournaments, as we are looking forward to seeing them again.

Division 3 consisted of nine teams and initially three American Tournaments. After the first two rounds, the mathematical genius of the time keeper and scorer, Pam Cowley and Jilly Emerson, were put to the test as they had to work out the rankings on points, goal difference, goals for and goals against. All the teams then played off for their positions. The top two teams were Rugby C and Cheltenham Ladies' College C. Cheltenham Ladies' defended tenaciously but couldn’t stop Rugby scoring three good goals to win Division 3.

Division 2 saw some good games. Heathfield St Mary's A fought their way through to the Final to meet Rugby B. These two teams gave a very good account of themselves. Both teams played fluid, sensible polo. The well drilled unit of Heathfield St Mary's, though, powered through to win 4-1 in an exciting and entertaining final.

The final game of the Championships was between Marlborough A (Matilda and Tabitha Woodd and Sasha Seymour Williams) and Cheltenham College A (Clemmie St John Webster, Blair Abel and Sophie Kyriazi). The two teams marked each other ferociously and players could only get away from their markers if there was a split second loss of concentration, or there was an unlucky bounce, or a pony decided to play football! The play was fast and furious and of an excellent standard. For Cheltenham College, Sophie marshalled the troops and closed the back door, Clemmie played neat polo, turning the ball skilfully, and they were ably backed up by Blair. For Marlborough, Tabitha took the ball to goal with aplomb and Sasha worked her socks off in attack and defence. Matilda held the team together and was a match for many a higher handicapped player. An excellent final finished 4-3 in Marlborough’s favour and they were duly crowned the  SUPA National Girls' Schools Arena Champions for 2007.

Ellie Parkes was awarded the Most Promising Player as part of a highly commended Rugby C team. Matilda Woodd was judged to be the Most Valuable Player of the tournament.

SUPA would like to thank the Hanburys for their hospitality at Longdole and Bridget in particular for presenting the prizes. , the prestigious make-up company, very generously  sponsored all the prizes - the  Division 3 winners are now the proud owners of Perfect Kisses, Division 2 will be Indulged Forever and the champions have Show Me Love! Dan Banks was again our “all weather umpire”! Caroline Ralph of The Ladies' College kindly produced all the programmes for the tournament as she does for all our tournaments and we thank her for all the time and effort that she puts into this.