ZESPRI AIMS Games 2022

It was fantastic to return to the NZ AIMS Games after a two year absence due to Covid. From the opening ceremony on Sunday evening through the whole week, it was incredible to see so many Year 7 and 8 students having the best time and playing sports.

We had an amazing team of 92 students and 25 adults attend, and we were involved in 13 different codes across the week. There were just over 11,000 students involved from all over New Zealand, so we are super proud of all of our students and the way they all performed. 

We came away with NZ AIMS champions in badminton, with Jason Tong winning the overall singles title. This was followed by Jason and his badminton partner Justin Wang winning the overall doubles title.

We also have a NZ AIMS swimming champion in Lani Kim, who won gold in the 11-and-under 200m individual medley. Lani had an amazing week winning 4 other medals in the pool.

Eva Li picked up an awesome bronze for third place Stableford in the golf.

Below are the results for each of the codes we were involved in:

Badminton

We had a team of 4 boys who played in both the singles and doubles competition with outstanding results:

Jason Tong - NZ AIMS Games Singles Champion

Justin Wang - Singles top 8

Jason Tong and Justin Wang - NZ AIMS Games Top Singles School Champion

Jason Tong and Justin Wang - NZ AIMS Games Doubles Champion

Jack Li and Lawrence Lu - AIMS Division 1 Doubles Champion

Cross Country

9 students competed in the tough cross country course on the first Sunday of AIMS.

Year 7 Girls: Emily Glasson 50th and Eleanor Armstrong 71st

Year 7 Boys: Samuel Bowden 87th and Axel Davis 116th

Year 8 Girls: Sienna Wilson 41st, EMI Brasell-Chaudhry 90th, Phia Hearley 92nd, Sophia Blee dnf. Year 8 girls team - 15th place.

Year 8 Boys: Lukas Behse dnf

Golf

We had 2 students that competed in the 18 hole tournament over 4 days.

Eva Li: Bronze for Stableford in the girls eventand 7th gross from 17 competitors

Heath Coyle-Dowling: 31st gross and 52nd Stableford from 67 competitors

Mountain Biking

Three Year 7 boys competed in the Mountain Biking in both the cross country and enduro events:

Ethan Rawson - 16th in cross country and 45th in enduro

Ashton Halligan - 18th in cross country and 34th in enduro

Ashton Geck - 41st in cross country and 31st in enduro

Rock Climbing

Cameron van Huyssteen and Maia Lamont competed in the Year 7 girls event.

Cameron finished 42nd in the qualifying event and did not make it through to the next round.

Maia qualified for the quarter final and finished 27th but did not proceed any further.

Swimming

Swimming is very competitive just to even qualify for the AIMS Games. We had 3 students competing, Mackenzie Keeler, Tharshinie Amurthalingam and Lani Kim.

Mackenzie and Tharshinie came away with some personal bests and were also part of the water polo team, so had a big week.

Lani Kim finished AIMS with 5 medals in the 11-and-under age group:

Gold - 200m Individual medley

Silver - 50m freestyle and 100m freestyle

Bronze - 200m freestyle and 100 Individual medley

Tennis

Lucy Zhou competed in the Gold grade and finished 14th from 31 players.

Boys Football: Finished in 30th place from 50 teams

Girls Football: Finished in 18th place from 30 teams

Boys Hockey: Finished in 21st place from 22 teams

Netball: Finished in 29th place from 110 teams

Rip Rugby: Finished in 27th place from 36 teams

Water Polo: Finished 11th from 24 teams