Lots of great sports news from the girls, plus important dates for your diary for 2019.

2019 Sport Sign Up – Thursday 31 January 3.00-4.00pm in the gym for Summer and Winter codes.

Summer Sport Trials Year 9-13

Touch – Friday 1, Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 February
Volleyball - Friday 1, Monday 4, Tuesday 5 and Thursday 7 February
Water Polo – Monday 4 February
Specific days and times for each Year Level will be posted nearer the time.

Winter Sport Trials Year 9-13
Basketball – Friday 8, Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 February
Hockey – Saturday 9, Sunday 10 and Saturday 16 February
Netball – Friday 8, Saturday 9, Sunday 10, Friday 15 and Saturday 16 February
Specific days and times for each Year Level will be posted nearer the time.
These two weekends are the only times during Term One that are relatively free of Summer Sport commitments, hence the reason to have Winter Sports Trials at this time. It also allows us time to sort the huge number of teams, coaches and managers for the winter season.

Swimming Sports
- Year 7-13 Tuesday 12th February, postponement Thursday 14th February
- Year 4-6 Monday 4 March, postponement Tuesday 5th March

Athletic Sports
-Year 9-13 Thursday 9th March, postponement Thursday 14th March

Summer Quad Tournament – Sunday 17th – Tuesday 19th March (Debating, Swimming, Tennis, Touch, Volleyball)

AFL 
Mia Allison, Year 11 has been selected into the New Zealand Secondary Schools AFL team and played Port Adelaide Women's Aboriginal Academy on November 24th at QBE Stadium in Auckland.
Great work Mia.

Equestrian 
ChCh A&P Show results
What an incredible NZ Agricultural Show for our SMC girls! They dominated in the equestrian events with:
Sophie Geddes (Y10) winning the prestigious Six Bar
Millie Harris (Y10) winning Supreme Champion Pony and Champion B Ring Pony
Meg Glassey (Y8) winning the Junior Nydfa and Champion Hunter Pony
Harriet Laing (Y9) winning Best Girl Rider Over Jumps in the Canterbury Cup
Eleanor Bell (Y6) winning Champion Small Pony
plus a host of other girls placing in various classes. Congratulations everyone!

Millie Harris, following her success at the Canterbury A&P Show, continued her winning ways at the Courtney A & P show with the following results.
- Champion B group pony
- Overall all riding pony sash
- Champion adult led pony over all rings
- Supreme Pony
and then went on to win the Royal agriculture association medal for supreme exhibit.
A huge day and we are all very proud of how Millie and her pony, Eastdale Henrietta have achieved this season

Polo
Skye Turner has been selected into the New Zealand Under 21 emerging players team for the curtain raiser of the NZ vs Australia game on the 8th of December.

Softball 
Trinity Mackley-Flutey has been selected into the Canterbury U15 team and will be competing in a tournament in Christchurch this weekend. The team will also travel to Palmerston North in January for the National tournament.
Liyah and Natashia Faga-ieti are both playing Premier Women’s Softball for the Halswell Club. They were named in the Canterbury Women’s Red Hawks (Canterbury Women’s) last week to compete this weekend, however they will be travelling to compete at the New Zealand Condor Rugby Seven’s for SMC instead.
Both girls will be travelling as members of the Halswell Premier Women’s Softball Team to Wellington in March 13-17 to defend their performance from last year when they finished in the top 6 in the NZ Club Women’s Championship.

Rowing 
With little wind and only a few rain showers our rowers were able to get their competitive season underway at the Ashburton Regatta over the weekend.
Our rowing team will head north on December 7 to compete at the Nelson Regatta before setting up camp at Lake Rotoiti for a valuable camp week. After that it is holiday time with self-directed programmes to ensure the girls continue to build their strength and fitness. In January the team will reconvene with a training camp and the Canterbury Club Champs at Lake Ruataniwha.

Tennis 
The Canterbury Secondary Schools’ Junior championships were held this week. Piper Smith played in the singles and Izzy Kotzikas and Lily Gamble played in doubles matches. Good to see our younger players gaining valuable tournament and match experience.

Touch
Our junior sports team have continued to shine in Term Four with the weekly competition and tournaments galore. We were very proud of our Year 9/10 Touch team who made the final of the inaugural Junior Elite competition. Despite losing to ChCh Girls High School, the girls displayed some great promise and we look forward to these players coming through the ranks and into our Super Touch team in the future.

Volleyball
Fantastic teamwork from our Junior A Volleyball team who continued their great work from their second placing at Canterbury Secondary Schools’ to secure a win over Cashmere and take out the Term Four competition.
These girls are competing in Dunedin in the Junior South Island Tournament this week and so far have recorded wins v Marlborough Girls, Lincoln High School and Nayland10A in initial pool play. Crossover games against Taieri College, Nayland 9A and Burnside High School resulted in a semi-final placing. Our semi-final game against Waimea was a tight tussle, however our girls rose to the challenge winning 2-1 to book a place in the final v Burnside. What a way to finish the year with 

Water Polo
What a way to finish her Water Polo years at SMC with selection into the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ team – Huge Congratulations to Annabel Norris who is fulfilling her dream of playing for New Zealand.
Annabel will play against Australia in a test series from 18 – 20 December.
Our Year 9/10 team have won the weekly competition, taking out the final v Rangi Ruru 18-10.
They then played in the Junior South Island tournament last weekend in Christchurch and after a mammoth semi-final where the score was tied up at 12-12 at full time, our girls dominated the penalty shoot-out for a well-deserved spot in the final with a 15-12 win against Marlborough Girls. This time around the Rangi girls were too strong and SMC had a narrow 2 point loss.
Well done to Georgia Reed and Jemma Burrowes who were named in the tournament team.
Exciting to see the depth of skill in these young players, many of whom will go on to play for our Senior team in Term One 2019.

Helen Belcher
Director of Sport