Term two is now well underway and our students have been attending sporting events at a local and national level and we are achieving some outstanding results.

On Tuesday 16th May we held our Swimming and Athletics awards assembly and this was a great opportunity to acknowledge our students who gained success at our school swimming and athletics days.

Plenty more sport is to follow and I would encourage you to get along and support our students.

Key Dates for Term 2

• 11 June Aoraki Basketball

• 13 June Aoraki Cycling.

• 13 June SCPSSA Cross country, Waihi School.

• 20 June Middle Quad, Darfield.

• 20 June Aoraki Junior Girls Basketball.

• 21 June Aoraki Junior Boys Basketball.

• 22 June Jump Jam, Timaru.

• 3-5 July Junior SISS Netball Christchurch

SPORTS UNIFORM AMNESTY.

COULD ALL SPORTS UNIFORMS PLEASE BE RETURNED TO THE SPORTS OFFICE AS WE ARE MISSING HEAPS.

Sports Updates

Netball

Congratulations to the following students who have made rep Netball teams.

U18 - Kristin Schoneveld

U16A - Nicole Schoneveld

U16 Development- Mackenzie Waldron

U16s played one main tournament on King's Birthday Weekend (over 3 days) where they played U16 teams from the Netball Mainland franchise in Christchurch. Up till then, they were playing preparatory games against Mid Canterbury and possibly North Otago.

U18s - will attend the National U18 tournament in Hamilton in July. Preparatory tournaments included playing other U18 teams from South Island during King's Birthday weekend in Christchurch.

Our Junior A team competed in the Roncalli Tournament on Sunday 28th May. They showed great sportsmanship against some tough teams. Well done girls we look forward to watching you play at the upcoming Junior SISS tournament in Christchurch.

Volleyball

Big shout out to Rodney Noval Pangilinan who has made the U17 Boys Canterbury Volleyball team. Awesome effort Rodney.

Basketball

The Friday night competition continues with some great results from our teams.

We have Aoraki Basketball coming up on Sunday 11 June in Timaru.

Year 7 & 8 Monday night competition has now finished with some awesome results from our teams. Our GHS Black A team ended the season as runners-up in the final.

The girls' team were 3rd.

GHS White came 5th and GHS Red were 4th in their respective grades.

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

Under 15

We’ve kicked off a new season for our U15 Girls Rugby Team. Many new faces, which has been great to see! We’ve been lucky this year to keep Rob McQueen our Forwards Coach from last year, and have Gideon Snow as Assistant Coach, working with our Backs. The girls have been giving 100% and playing some great rugby. Every week they’ve been gelling more and more, and we are excited to see what the Season brings for our Team. We’d love to see lots of supporters at our Home Games.

Swimming

Aoraki Swimming Championships were held on the 26th of May in Ashburton. Due to sickness, we had a much-reduced team with only three swimmers in total. However, they performed really well and both Thomas Anderson and Ella McDowell won some of their events.

Neptune King’s Birthday Short Course Meet

Nurryya Low attended the above swim meet in Dunedin during King’s Birthday weekend. She received Bronze for the 200m Breaststroke. She also came away with 4 PBs. Awesome work Nurryya.

Cross Country

On Tuesday 16th May, we had a team of four runners who competed in the Aoraki Cross Country Champs at Ashbury Park in Timaru.

Sophia Rusbridge was 2nd in Y9 girls, Eden Carter was 11th in Y9 girls, Ryan Billet was 14th in Senior Boys, and Shae Tindley-Welch was 29th in Senior Boys.

Two students, Charlotte Walker and Grace Worner, competed in the inaugural Southern Schools Cross Country on Sunday 28th May also at Ashbury Park.

Charlotte won her AWD event and Grace was 3rd in Intermediate Girls. Top effort!!!

Junior Quad

This is an annual fixture between Geraldine High School, Mt Hutt College, Darfield High School and Ellesmere College.

We had a brilliant day at Mt Hutt College with our Netball, Rugby and Soccer teams performing well. It was great to see students who are not that experienced at some of these sports having a go and achieving some great results.

At the end of the day, Geraldine High School was second in the Junior quad. Excellent work teams.

Senior Quad

This was hosted by us this year. It was a great day of sport with some close games in netball especially. Rugby and Soccer teams also played well. Overall Geraldine High School was second on the day with 15 points. Mt Hutt took it out with 21 points. Thank you to all who were involved in making this day a success.

iSport Youth Leadership Day

On Thursday 25th May, thirteen Year 12/13 students from our school attended the iSport Youth Leadership day in Christchurch at the Town Hall. Guest speakers included Richie McCaw, Dan Carter, Dame Valarie Adams, Dame Sophie Pascoe, Moses Mackay and Arihia Bennett.

Each of these speakers had some great knowledge to pass on to our future leaders and it was a great opportunity to hear from some of our NZ sporting icons.

Piper McCale had this to say about the day:

“Valarie Adams talked about having the right people on your “bus”, who support you and back you 100%. Having the confidence in who you are and surrounding yourself with positive people is key in character development.”

Te Whare Ako students

The GHS students in Te Whare Ako participated in the recent Special Olympics Soccer Tournament in Timaru. The students were extremely excited to get the opportunity to compete with other area schools. The Special Olympics events are truly a sight to behold as every athlete competing excels not only on the competition side of things but most importantly demonstrating the spirit of being a good sportsperson. Students in Te Whare Ako proudly displayed the school values of Achievement, Respect and Relationships. Students in TWA even stepped up to support other school teams, when they did not have enough students to field a full team. Ka pai TWA Titans!

Any questions regarding any of the above information please email sports@geraldinehs.school.nz