Here's a little bright spot in the wave of cancellations/suspensions that our sports programme has experienced this week.

Canterbury Secondary Schools Powerlifting Championships
Sat 14th March; Unbreakable Training Center, Christchurch.

Congratulations to the team who all not only achieved personal bests for all students in every lift, but every student won a medal placing their age/weight groups!

All the students in the team have invited by the federation to lift at the South Island Championships in May.

Another highlight from the day includes Alfie Trafford nearly breaking the national deadlift record of 180kg.

Powerlifting Team - Penny Yang, Alfie Trafford, Grace Wakefield, Seb Jamieson, Kapil Kumar, Sahel Mohammadi, Lucas Newman, Cameron Pearce, Jacob Wadeley and Zak Yenice.

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South Island Secondary Schools Rowing Championships
Fri 13 - Sun 15 March; Lake Ruataniwha, Twizel.

Congratulations to all our Rowers who took part in this Regatta at Lake Ruataniwha, as you can see there was some really strong finishes. On the Saturday, all the crews who rowed achieved PBs (personal bests), including the Novice Girls in their 8 managing to shave a massive 17 seconds off their previous PB -  Way to go team!!

A Finals
U16 Girls Single Sculls - 4th Bryah Moriarty
U15 Girls Coxed Four - 5th Rosie Walker, Emily Ryall, Kate Ryall, Olivia Dawson & Zeda Mata'u (cox) 
U18 Girls Single Sculls - 5th Alexandria Landon-Lane
U15 Girls Coxed Eight - 5th Rosie Walker, Sam Rankin, Emily Ryall, Olivia Dawson, Kate Ryall, Charlotte Carey, Poppy Knight, Katy Mitchell & Sharni Ross (cox)

B Finals
U16 Boys Single Sculls - 1st Sam Lamont
U15 Boys Double Sculls - 2nd Sam Lamont & Cam Scott
U17 Girls Single Sculls - 2nd Sophie Rowland
U16 Girls Single Sculls - 3rd Zeda Mata'u
U16 Boys Double Sculls - 3rd Tom Giddens & Sam Lamont
U15 Coxed Quad - 4th Cam Scott, Sam Lamont, Thomas Peacock-Price, Emmanuel Landon-Lane & Zeda Mata'u (cox)
U16 Boys Single Sculls - 5th Tom Giddens 

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Unfortunately due the new Covid-19 guidelines many of our Term 1 sporting events are now on hold or have been cancelled. Hopefully we are able to go ahead with the planned sporting schedule in Term 2 and can continue updating you on our amazing athletes and their results.