HBHS was guaranteed a win at the recent Waikato Secondary Schools final...

HBHS students featured heavily at the Waikato Secondary Schools Senior Premier Final Debate - both our Year 13 teams won their semi-finals so it was a close and tense debate between HBHS 1975 (Daniel Dizon, Josef Gillgren, Cam Sundararaj, and Hamish McKelvie) vs HBHS Funny Moments (Wyatt Winke, Finn Ryan, Alexander Mayo, and Eddie Bi).

Many of our HBHS debaters in other categories also won awards during the evening. Here is a run down of all the prize winners:

Waikato SS Senior Premier Cup: 🥇 Daniel Dizon, Josef Gillgren, Cam Sundararaj, and Hamish McKelvie

Best Senior Premier Speakers: 🥈 Daniel Dizon; 🥉 Josef Gillgren; 5th: Adithya Bandaru

Waikato SS Senior Open Cup Runners Up: 🥈 Nikash Lanka, Conor McCormack, Michael Crowther, and Jonathan Crowther

Best Senior Open Speakers: 🥈 Nikash Lanka; 5th: Conor MacCormack

Deakin Cup (Impromptu Debate): 🥇 Josef Gillgren and Daniel Dizon

Best Speaker in Impromptu Debate: 🥇 Josef Gillgren

Deakin Cup Novice Winners: 🥇 Krish Patel and Tatva Patel

Arguably the Best Cup (Junior Debating): 🥇 Obaidullah Zaman, Tatva Patel, and Krish Patel

Year 9 Best Speaker Cup: 🥇 Ollie Shallcrass

Adjudicator Service Award: Daniel Dizon and Adithya Bandaru