This edition includes NZSS Gymnastics (Artistic and Trampolining), CSS Road Race, and CSS Swimming Updates.

Our winter sport is now under way, with the first round of Canterbury Secondary School sport winter starting this week. The draws for Wednesday sport are available here: https://www.burnside.school.nz/sportsdraw/

Gymnastics - NZSS Artistic

Congratulations to Adam Lim 9SOSC who placed 1st overall in the MAG Level 4 grade at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Artistic Championship. 

 The Artistic Championship compromises of 6 disciplines - Floor, Pommel, Rings, Vault, Parallel Bars and High Bar. 

 Adam's combined score in these events was excellent, he finished the competition over 2 points ahead of his nearest competitor.

Gymnastics - NZSS Trampolining

Congratulations to Nicola McLachlan 9NMRC and Lexi Ross 13JRD who competed at the New Zealand Secondary School Trampoline and DMT Championships. The DMT is the Double Mini Trampoline, in which the gymnasts combine the horizontal run of tumbling with the vertical rebound of trampolining. After a short run, the athlete jumps onto a small, two-level trampoline to perform a rebounding skill, immediately followed by a dismount element onto a landing mat. Both girls competed extremely well in all the disciplines and placed in more than one event.

Nicola placed 2nd in the 13-14 Women Individual Trampoline, 3rd in the 13-14 Women Synchro and 5th in the 13-14 Women DMT.

Lexi placed 2nd in the 17+ Women DMT, 2nd in the 17+ Women Synchro and 3rd in the 17+ Women Individual Trampoline.

Canterbury Secondary School Road Race

On Tuesday 11 May, we had a strong team of 38 students compete in the CSS Road Race. The racing took place in fantastic conditions at North Hagley Park. There were some great individual and team results for our students.

Congratulations to: 

• Theo Walker 12NCGR was 2nd in the Senior Boys Grade by just 5/100 of a second.
• Sue Petrie 11SMYS placed 6th in the U16 Girls race.
• Hugo Feng 9SPHC was 7th in the Year 9 Boys 3km.

Team results (the first four finishers from each school in the age groups are used to determine the results):

Year 9 Boys 1st
Hugo Feng 9SPHC
Aiden Chai 9SOSC
Sean Carrapiett 9WMNS
Johnny Kearney 9NDVA

U16 Girls 2nd
Sue Petrie 11SMYS
Poppy Knight 10SBDW
Iris He 10STNZ
Lucia Shanks 10NGBB

U16 Boys 3rd
James Anderson 11SDFS
Eze Nakaroti 10NMDA
Beck Faloon-Cavander 10STNZ
Daniel Lough 10STNZ

Canterbury Secondary Schools Swimming Championships

Congratulations to Stacey Morgan 10WWAJ, Harry Renner 10WLJJ and Luke McCallum10NMDA who have been acknowledged as some of the best swimmers to attend the CSS Swimming Championships in Term 1. They have been awarded 'Outstanding Junior Swimmer' Awards. There were only 4 of these awards awarded this year.