All sports notices can be found here.

2019 CALENDAR

Term 3

14 Sep NZ Schools XC ski champs (Snow Farm)

16 Sep Get 2 Go regionals (Queenstown)

SISS Ski/Snowboard Champs (Cardrona)

26 Sep C.O. Junior Volleyball (Y9/10) (Queenstown)

23-24 Sep Kavanagh Exchange (Wanaka)

28-29 Sep NZ target shooting (Wellington)

4-6 Oct National Schools MTB champs (Dunedin)

4- 6 Oct Yunca cycling tour (Southland)

Term 4

5 Nov Central Otago SS junior touch (Cromwell)

15- 16 Nov Otago SS junior volleyball (Dunedin)

6- 8 Dec NZSS athletics champs (Wellington)

SPORTS NOTICES 

Rowing

Wanaka Rowing Club - Open Day - Sat 21st September 8.30 -12 noon

Wanaka Rowing Club - Learn to Row six week course - Starts Monday 23rd September

Sign up outside the Sportshub.

Touch Rugby

Year 7 and 8 touch starts on Mondays from 14 October (week 1 of term 4). Training runs from 5 to 6 p.m. at Wanaka Show Grounds, with the first 15-30 minutes of warm up and skills followed by one game of 14 minutes each way.

The finals will be held on Monday 11 December with one cancellation day the 18th of December 2019.

Teams will be allocated from registrations and registrations close at the end of term 3.

Year 7 & 8 Touch Rugby Registration

Any questions please email wanakatouch@gmail.com.

Touch New Zealand

Level One Course run by Grant Milne, Sport Otago Coach Lead

15 September, 2pm, Wanaka Recreation Centre (90 minute course).

Register with Tiny Carruthers tiny@sportotago.co.nz 027 212 4290.

Upper Clutha Primary Schools - Ski and Snowboard Race

Open to all Year 7 & 8 students of intermediate skiing/boarding ability, no racing experience required. Come and have FUN at Cardrona racing down a Giant Slalom and Gravity X course. Get a team of 3 or 4 together - all boys, all girls or mixed where the best 3 combined times count towards medal placings.

See flyer below for more details and entry procedures.

Schools category new for Bike Wanaka 10-hour race

This year's Bike Wanaka 10 Hour race, held at Deans Bank on Sunday the 27th of October, has for the first time a Schools category. This is open to teams formed by four or more secondary school children, with at least one boy and one girl in each team. There will be prizes from our generous sponsors for the team that manages to cycle the most laps of Deans Bank in 10 hours. It's a fun event, with the team's encouraged to build great camps to base themselves at Albert Town campground - the race course will snake through these camps in each lap and this makes for a really fun day for all.

More information and entry procedures:

https://www.bikewanaka.org.nz/events

And the facebook page is here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2527196037311464/

Breakdance Workshop

Breaking, also called breakdancing or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance. Want to give it a go?

Amy Jolly, former MAC student and dance teacher, is offering a 30 min introduction to breakdancing.

Come and sign up at the sports hub - limited numbers!

When: Monday 23rd September - lunchtime

Where: Science break out space (R39)

Who: Year 7 & 8 & 9

Sports Results

TOURNAMENT WEEK

Click here for our tournament news and highlights from last week

Gymnastics

Isabella Soper competed at the South Island championships in Timaru at the weekend. She scored 13.00 on floor out of a possible 13.6 and won this apparatus. Bella is the Step 7 South Island floor champion.

OTHER NOTICES

FESTIVAL OF SPORT & RECREATION

Ever wondered what sporting and recreational activities are on offer in our community; when and where they take place and who to contact to get involved? Then don't miss the free Mitre 10 Wanaka Festival of Sport & Recreation being held on Sunday 15th September, 10am - 1pm at The Wanaka Recreation Centre.
The festival includes sports club and business club exhibitors, interactive activities every half hour, indoor play spaces for the little ones along with activities and outdoor challenges across three outdoor courts.
Whether it involves hitting, jumping, throwing, kicking, climbing, swinging, tumbling or pulling, there is something for everybody. Get along and have a go! 

RAINBOW RUN

The Rainbow Run will be held on Saturday 12 October. Please see below for more information.

CAMPBELL WRIGHT ON IMPRESSIVE FORM AT QRC WINTER GAMES PRESENTED BY FORSYTH BARR CROSS COUNTRY SERIES

FIS AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND CUP 

Wanaka Junior Cross Country athlete Campbell Wright has been on impressive form at the QRC Winter Games, Cross Country Series presented by Forsyth Barr. Wright competed in all three events across the series, and impressed the racing community in Wednesday’s Freestyle Interval race with a gutsy 7th place among international competition.

The 17-year old started competing two years ago, and with a further two years racing as a junior he is one to watch.

“Skate this season for me has been pretty good because I’m a biathlete… I just had a real good feeling in the first couple of laps and on the last lap I just went faster, and as I came across the line I was pretty stoked with how I went,” Campbell said.

Chief of Competition Alastair Smaill said Wright’s performance as a young junior in the Freestyle Interval Start was “outrageously good”.

“What we look for is the FIS points, and anything under 100 FIS points is an international standard performance and he kicked that by quite a lot, he got 87 FIS points so he’s well under it… the distance behind the winner and the stand in the field meant that that’s actually an outstanding performance of international class.”

“That’s either the best, or close to the best ever, by a NZ junior. So, those sort of performances are pretty rare – and he’s pretty stoked!”

Next up for Campbell is the NZ Biathlon Nationals, then three months of training and racing in Europe at the end of October where he hopes to compete in the Youth Olympic Games.