Sports
Welcome back to Term 2. Another busy term of sport is coming up with winter sports codes getting underway.
During the holidays we had some students doing great things in the sporting area and we are very proud of their achievements. Read on to hear what they have been up to.
Key Dates for Term 2
16 May Athletics and Swimming awards assembly. Live stream only as no capacity for parents in the hall.
16 May Aoraki Cross Country, Ashbury Park, Timaru.
23 May Junior Quad, Mt Hutt College, Methven.
26 May Aoraki Swimming champs, Ashburton.
6 June Middle Quad, Geraldine.
7 June Aoraki Squash
11 June Aoraki Basketball
13 June Aoraki Cycling.
13 June SCPSSA Cross country, Waihi School.
20 June Senior Quad, Darfield.
20 June Aoraki Junior Girls Basketball.
21 June Aoraki Junior Boys Basketball.
22 June Jump Jam, Timaru.
SPORTS UNIFORM
COULD ALL SPORTS UNIFORMS PLEASE BE RETURNED TO THE SPORTS OFFICE AS WE ARE MISSING HEAPS.
Sports Updates
Netball
The netball season has begun for 2023! We have 9 teams entered in the Netball South Canterbury competition this season.
A friendly reminder to please make sure SUBS have been paid, emails have been sent in regards to this. Any questions please don't hesitate to contact Tess - t.opie@geraldinehs.school.nz
To keep up to date with all things netball please follow our Geraldine High School Netball facebook page.
Basketball
The Friday night competition has started and this year we have a total of 7 teams in the competition. This is great and we love to see so many of our students getting involved in school sport. So far we have had some great results from all of our teams so we are hoping for a good season.
Year 7 & 8 Monday night competition continues and our 4 teams are continuing to get some great results.
Subs are due for basketball so could you please make sure you pay these asap.
Thank you to all those parents who have stepped up to be coaches and managers.
Girls Rugby
U11s and U13s Comp. starts Monday 12th June.
U 15 and U 18 Comp starts Wednesday 10th May.
Athletics
Ella Waldron’s star continues to rise with her nomination as a finalist for the Canterbury Athletics awards for her achievements in hurdles. Well done Ella.
Swimming
Aoraki Swimming Championships are coming up on May 26th 2023. This is for our year 9-13 swimmers. This year they are being held in Ashburton.
Cycling
Kyra Marett competed at the National road championships in the holidays. Kyra won the silver medal in the un17 girls time trial on Friday. Then backed it up to win the silver medal in the un17 girls road race on Saturday.
Halberg Games
In the middle week of the school holidays Charlotte Walker and her team mate Finn from Timaru went to Auckland to represent South Canterbury in a small team of two at the Halberg Games, previously known as the Youth Disability games. This is a sporting extravaganza with competitive and non competitive sports of all sorts. Charlotte made South Canterbury proud.
She was first in her 50m and 100m sprint races and second by 0.06 of a second in her 25m freestyle in swimming. She was also 3rd in the backstroke and 3rd in the 75m medley (no butterfly).
Participation and fun is the focus of the games so Charlotte took part in wheelchair rugby which she loves and scored 6 goals, and Boccia, a seated bowls game on Sunday.
Hopefully a bigger South Canterbury team next April.
Inline Speed Skating
This year during Easter I (Grace Worner) took part in a competition for inline speed skating for the Oceania championships. It was held in Brisbane, Australia. In the New Zealand team there were 30 skaters who travelled over to Brisbane. I competed in 6 races over 3 days but all of the shorter races had heats and finals which made it around 10 races. I really enjoyed the 5km elimination and points races the most and I really loved travelling away with the New Zealand team. I came away with a Gold medal in the 5km elimination and in the 5km points race. My relay team won Gold in the 3km relay race and I got a bronze medal in the 21km half marathon. I jointly received the reward for top overall cadet (my skating grade) with my friend Kyla Beverage from Timaru. I was very happy with my results and I hope to be selected to go to Oceania’s again next year.
