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The start of the year has flown by with everyone settling into school and coming to grips with the busyness of school life. This year has seen an increase in the number of Touch and Volleyball teams we have entered into the weekly competition.

Term One is always extremely busy with Athletics and Swimming Sports, Quad tournament as well as many Canterbury, South Island and National events. That’s not to even mention the weekly competition which is a main focus for our teams and then we run some of the winter sports trials on top of everything else.

We encourage the girls to keep communicating with the Sport Office and to keep checking Student Notices for all information.

It is important that all girls wear the correct uniform for all trainings, games and competitions. Please wear our uniform with pride, respect and commitment to your team and to SMC.

Athletics:
Violette Perry won the U14 girls discus at both the North and South Island Colgate Games and was placed 8th at the Australian All Schools Championships U16 girls discus during the January holidays.

Cycling:
Jenna Borthwick has been named in the Canterbury U17 team to compete at the Age Group Track Nationals in Invercargill from 8-11 March.

Equestrian:
Harriet Laing has had a strong season achieving success at many jumping events including:
South Canterbury/ North Otago Showhunter champion.
Canterbury Showhunter champion
South Island Showhunter champion
NZ National Showhunter champion
She has qualified again for Horse of the Year in March and we look forward to hearing more from Harriet.

Kayaking :
Pieta Luthi was selected into the Canoe Racing New Zealand Junior Womens U18 squad and raced at the Australian Grand Prix 2 in Penrith, Sydney from 9-11 February. Pieta won silver in the k1 200m and k4 500m and bronze in the k2 200m .

She has also competed at the Canoe Sprint National Champs last weekend in both U16 and U18 events.

U16
K1 1st 500m & 200m, 2nd 5000m
K2 1st 200m
K4 1st 200m & 500m

U18
K1 3rd 200m
K2 2nd 200m & 500m
K4 3rd 500m

Quad:
Rangi Ruru hosted Summer Quad tournament on 19-20 February. Our girls competed in Debating, Swimming, Tennis, Touch and Volleyball against Craighead Diocesan, St Hilda’s Collegiate and Rangi Ruru. SMC won the Debating, Tennis and Volleyball, were 2nd in Swimming and 3rd in Touch resulting in overall 1st place.

Outstanding Contribution awards were presented to:
Debating – Milly O’Brien
Swimming – Annabel Norris
Tennis – Annabel Coates
Touch – Maddie Eder
Volleyball – Loveday Mossman-Catchpole

Rowing:
Our rowing team continue to work hard in their build up to South island and National events.

This weekend will see them at Lake Ruataniwha competing for medals at the South Island championships.

The following weekend they will head to Cromwell for the much anticipated pre Maadi camp then they will pack their bags again the following week to travel back to Twizel for the week of Maadi.

All the best girls.

Swimming Sports:
A great day for our Y7-13’s on 13 February as participation levels soared, encouraged no doubt by the hot temperatures. Results are listed separately and we will announce the House points at an assembly in a couple of weeks’ time.

Emily Barron broke the 50m Senior Backstroke record in a time of 33.20sec and RIMU broke the Year 12 medley relay record posting a time of 1.08.82

Our Year 4-6 girls had a day with much lower temperatures for their swimming sports, however they keenly contested the events.

Tennis: 
Abby Mason finished in 2nd place in both the singles and mixed doubles at the National Junior Championships in the 14U grade in January – well done Abby.

Our A team of Abby, Annabel Coates, Ruby Spencer, Elizabeth Andre and Sophie White will be in Timaru this week competing in South Island championships.

Touch:
Great success for our SuperTouch team last weekend who finished in 2nd place at Canterbury Secondary Schools’ tournament.

Team members’ Emily Dobbs has been named as a trialist for the New Zealand U18 team and

Lucy Jenkins is competing for the Canterbury U21 Touch team this weekend in Auckland at Nationals.

Congratulations to Aimee Brown, Charlotte Bush, Emily Dobbs and Lucy Jenkins in the Canterbury U18 Touch team who were placed 3rd at Nationals recently.

Volleyball:
Mia Thomson has gained selection into a 22 person squad who will train and compete in the South Pacific Challenge in Auckland from 15-22 April. Following this event the squad will be reduced and a team of 12 will represent New Zealand as the Junior Women’s team at the Asian Women’s U19 Championships in Hanoi, Vietnam later this year.

Water Polo:
During the holidays Violette Perry was selected as one of the seven players in the tournament team at Div 1 U14 girls nationals. It is a rare occurrence for a South island player to be named in this team.

Year 3-8 Hockey Trials:
Sunday 11 & 18 March
10.00-11.00am Year 3-6
11.00-12.30pm Year 7-8

Year 3-8 Netball Trials:
Sunday 11 March
2.00-3.00pm Year 3-6
3.00-4.30pm Year 7-8

Sunday 18 March
3.00-4.30pm Year 7-8