Welcome to term two and we have got off to a flying start with Cross Country and most winter codes up and running. We have also had the inaugural meeting of the Sports Committee, a group that will help to boost the profile of sport at GHS.

Extra patience is needed as we look to find practice space for all our teams.

If you want to know more about sports at Geraldine High School check out our Facebook page, Geraldine High School Sport where we post results, notices and photos.

Athletics and Swimming Assembly

We held our annual Athletics and Swimming assembly on Tuesday 14th May. This is where we celebrate all our first-place getters in events. We also award all our cups. Congratulations to all our winners. Top effort.

Sports Updates

Sports Committee

Geraldine High School is excited to announce we have begun a sports committee with the aim to remove barriers to participation and support our students. The committees focus on liaising with the sports clubs around the community, breaking down barriers some of our students face to participating in sport, creating a high-performance programme, communicating to get key messages out to the community effectively, maximising the potential of the new gym and fundraising. We are excited to get this up and running and look forward to working alongside students and the community to make a difference. If you would like to join the committee please fill in this google form.

Athletics

Ethan Hole

Big shout out to Ethan Hole who has been selected to compete in the Oceania athletics meet in Fiji in the 100m.

Charlotte Walker

Charlotte had an excellent Halberg Games (NZ Disability games) winning all of her races 200, 100, and 50m.

Cross Country

We held our annual Cross Country on Tuesday 7th May. A great event and some super running by many of our students. Stand out results from Olly McKeown in senior boys and Billy Nelson in Junior boys.

The Colour run was popular again.

Results as follows:-

Minor Girls

Justina Courage

13.25

Emma Weaver

14.07

Charlee Cooper

14.18

Breanna Conner

14.22

Paige Graham

14.23

Minor Boys

Isaac Johnston

11.55

Harry Edge

12.28

Camilo Cisneros

12.59

Lance Brodina

13.05

Riley Ricketts

13.18

Junior Girls

Sophia Rusbridge

12.36

Anya Johnston

13.21

Grace Worner

13.32

Jennifer Schenk

14.26

Terrilee Guilford

15.3

Junior Boys

Billy Nelson

10.32

Anthony Baker

11.31

Ben Drudi

11.46

Rio Anderson

11.51

Ethan Wilson

12.15

Intermediate Girls

Hayley Pidgeon

32.01

Sepia Alpress

33.02

Heidi Trounson

34.04

Amelia Walker

35.31

Georaeah Edmonds-Cooper

35.57

Intermediate Boys

Marco Hardie-Lyne

22.22

Asher Harmon-Barnes

22.32

Lewis Pace

24.26

Zech Reardon

25.22

Ethan Hole

27.52

Senior Girls

Ella McDowell

27.08

Lily Jones

28.18

Amelia de Bonth

28.28

Philline Alagahit

28.41

Ella Chapman

28.56

Senior Boys

Olly McKeown

19.34

Harry Osborne

19.39

Hunter Wilson

19.93

Tasman Pidgeon

20.85

Carlos Johnson

21.39

Basketball

The intermediate competition is in its final rounds and we have some teams making the playoffs.

The Secondary competition has started and we have 9 teams this year. Thank you to our coaches and managers. Check out our new Senior Girls uniform.

Please make sure you have paid the sub for basketball.

Netball

Netball has well and truly started at Geraldine High. The Seniors A's started off strong this year with a tournament in Rangiora which set them up strong for this season. As a club, we are growing and growing each year, which has resulted in having 11 teams this year! All girls are looking super strong and we can't thank our coaches and volunteers enough for putting the time and effort in getting this season started. If you want to keep up to date and come along to games, check out Netball South Canterbury website.

Soccer

The first 11 are up and running and training. We are hoping to go to a tournament in Invercargill this year during winter tournament week.

Hockey

Hockey is up and running and we are booked in for a tournament in Oamaru this year.

Golf

We had a team of four students attend the Aoraki Golf Champs recently. They were Oscar Ball, Olly McKeown, Bryn McKeown and Harry Osborne. The boys had a great day of golfing and it's awesome to see them embracing a new sport. In the teams event Oscar, Olly and Bryn ended up 5th with a gross score of 173.Thanks to Kit Silcock who managed the team for the day.

Cycling

Kyra Marett and Lance Brodina attended the Aoraki Cycling champs recently. It was a perfect day weather wise and both students performed well. Kyra was 3rd in the Time Trial and 2nd in the Scratch race. Lance was 2nd in the Time Trial and also 2nd in the Scratch race.

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

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