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ZONTA SECONDARY SCHOOL SPORTS AWARDS

It was a pleasure to attend the Zonta Secondary School Sports Awards last night, the talent of Secondary School athletes in Canterbury is just mind blowing, Junior Olympiams, Junior World Champions, and Commonwealth Games Representatives, were among the finalists. 

We were very proud to have Tyler Mounty, for Softball and Football, and Andres Hernandez, for Athletics make the final cut.

Tyler had a very tough category which saw Sam Darry from Christ's College take out the category, Sam won Maadi Cup and is a member of New Zealand Secondary School Rugby Team.

Andres was highly commended in Category 4 which is the most outstanding individual achievement. By receiving highly commended meant that he was runner-up which is an outstanding achievement for Andres who has done the following:

• Andres was selected in the NZ Secondary Schools Cross-country Team where they raced at the Gold Coast - he finished 11th and was the 2nd New Zealander home.
  
• He then went to Paris to compete in the World Schools' Cross-country where he finished 5th in his age group (he still has another two years in that age group!)
  
• Andres has just been selected and named captain of the NZ Secondary Schools Athletic Track and Field Team which will see him travel to Cairns (Australia) in December.
  

BASKETBALL

St Bede's College Basketball Club are holding their prize giving tonight at the Reddie in Daniels Road and this starts at 6.30pm.

CHESS

We wish our Chess boys, Sam Renton, George Hampton, John Tran, Ben Colvin and Jackson Burgess all the very best in Auckland tomorrow for the National Chess Tournament.

A big thank you to Dr Jordens for taking these boys.

ROWING

Still not too late to row if your son would like to take up rowing. Please either send your son to the sports office to get more details or email me sport@stbedes.school.nz

RUGBY

St Bede's College Rugby Club is holding their Annual General Meeting on Monday 5 November at 6.00pm in the College Staffroom – if your son plays rugby then I strongly encourage you to attend.