This year, we gave students the choice of entering the athletics in a competitive environment or a social environment. This worked well, with just on a third of the students competing in the competitive environment and the rest participating socially to gain housepoints for each event they entered.

Due to ground conditions, we had to hold the High Jump competition in the gym while the others ran smoothly outside. The day finished with inter-house relays and then a 'staff versus prefects' relay which was won once again by the staff. The day was a great success and a great atmosphere was created by the student enthusiasm and competitiveness.

Records have been reintroduced to the best of our research and a total of 29 records were broken. Interestingly, we still have a number of records dating back to 40 years. Vicki Lewis still holds the Hornby High School and Canterbury Secondary Schools record she set in 1977 in the Under 14 Girls 100 metres in a time of 12.6 seconds. This is an amazing achievement.

Short results are as follows:

Tournament Champion - Adi Mcgoon

Year 7 Champions - Mikayla Falconer, Axle Briggs Sangalang and Tai Coleman

Year 8 Champions - Genica Chan and Edrian Pineda

Under 14 Champions - Dylan Geldard and Driaan Meintjes

Under 15 Champions - Adi Mcgoon and Jayton Lawrie

Under 16 Champions - Haylee Goodman and Tyler Dempsey

Over 16 Champions - Christina Fifita and Jack Harley

House Placings

Lewis 1st - Turner 2nd - Shelford 3rd  - Setu 4th

Canterbury Secondary Schools Athletics

A team of 24 athletes went to compete at the Canterbury Secondary Schools. Preliminary events were on Tuesday the 13th of March with Finals being held on Saturday the 17th. These were held at Rawhiti Domain.

After a really strong performance at the Finals of the Canterbury Secondary Schools Athletics a team of 9 gained selection to compete at the South Island Athletics.

South Island Secondary Schools Athletics

These were held in Timaru in what turned out to be perfect conditions.

All students competed well and finished with excellent results.

Tyler Dempsey - 5th - 100m Final PB 12.10 sec

Relay Team - 8th in Final - PB in Semi of 48.38 sec

Adi McGoon - 6th in Discus with a PB of 23.48 m

Zachary McNevin - 6th in Javelin with a PB of 33.58 m

Jayton Lawrie - 8th in Javelin with a PB of 31.88 m

Cecilia Taotua Lavea - 7th in Javelin with a throw of 22.03 m

Aimee Musson-Polwart - 9th in Javelin with a throw of 20.21 m

The students appreciated the number of parents who accompanied them to support them in this major event.

Thank you to all involved for a great weekend.

Year 7 & 8

Canterbury Association of Intermediate and Middle Schools (CAIMS)

A squad of 26 athletes were selected to attend the CAIMS Athletics which were held at the new Nga Puna Wai Athletics Track.

Hornby High School produced some very good results with ten students making finals, four of which gained top three places in their respective final.

Shanarnia Avia, 3rd in the Year 7 Girls Shot Put, Jaz Collie Case, 2nd in the Year 7 Girls Discus, Gerald Sanchez, 2nd in the Year 7 Boys 60 metre Sprint and Michael Harris 1st in the Year 8 Boys 60 metre Sprint.

Other students to compete in the finals were:

Axle Brigs Sangalang - 5th in the 60m, 6th in the Discus and 7th in the Shot Put

Azaliah Harris - 6th in the 100m

Aron Perez - 7th in the 100m

Edrian Pineda - 7th in the 200m

Sofia Rosima - 8th in the 100m

Aliyah Biddle-Enright - 10th in the 200m