We were fortunate to squeeze our Year 1-8 Athletic Sports in on a fine day between some pretty miserable weather last week. The field and turf were abuzz with excited girls as they put their best foot forward for each event.

Year 1-8 Athletic Sports 2018

50m – Year 1
Harriet Gough
Chyna Jiang-Simpson
Isabelle Greer
50m – Year 2
Maisie Diver
Sabrina MacDonald
Aaliyah Wu
50m – Year 3
Isobel Masters
Eva Grace
Georgia MacMillan

Year 4 
50m  
Genevieve Surridge
Lexie Boon
Connie Newton

80m 
Lexie Boon
Genevieve Surridge
Ivy Mehrtens

High Jump
Connie Newton
Marnie Bell
Sienna Choat

Long Jump
Genevieve Surridge
Connie Newton
Marnie Bell

Discus
Genevieve Surridge
Lola Roberts
Lexie Boon

Shot Put
Genevieve Surridge
Lola Roberts
Marnie Bell

Year 5
50m
Masha Lukonina
Charlotte Devers
Isabella Wilson

80m
Masha Lukonina
Charlotte Devers
Isabella Wilson

100m
Masha Lukonina
Isabella Wilson
Jessica Blair

High Jump
Masha Lukonina
Charlotte Devers
Mathilda Smulders

Long Jump
Charlotte Devers
Masha Lukonina
Samantha March

Discus
Isabella Wilson
Charlotte Devers
Allie Boon

Shot Put
Isabella Wilson
Qiaoyu Guan
Jessica Blair

Year 6
50m
Alice Forrest
Eve Tayler
Monika Yamamoto

80m
Alice Forrest
Eve Tayler
Monika Yamamoto

100m
Eve Tayler
Monika Yamamoto
Elleanor Bell

High Jump
Alice Forrest
Maia Stanbury
Nevaeh Shand

Long Jump
Eve Tayler
Alice Forrest
Elleanor Bell

Discus
Ashley Bonne
Montse Moya-Carreno
Maddy Bleeker

Shot Put
Ashley Bonne
Maddy Bleeker
Fleur Duddy

Year 7
60m
Chloe McNeill
Rosa Turner
Frankie Jack

100m
Chloe McNeill
Rosa Turner
Frankie Jack

1200m
Chloe McNeill
Rosa Turner
Payton Edmundson

High Jump
Chloe McNeill =Frankie Jack
Clara Gomes Lira

Long Jump
Rosa Turner
Chloe McNeill
Lilliana Murray-Orr

Discus
Payton Edmundson
Frankie Jack
Chloe McNeill

Shot Put
Charlotte Couglan
Hannah Wareing
Sienna Godfrey-Chatterton

Year 8
60m
Alex Rees-Thomas
Ally Booth
Hayley Douglas

100m
Alex Rees-Thomas
Ally Booth
Olivia Ferguson

1200m
Elysie Calder
Claudia Hundleby
Lucy Sawyer

High Jump
Lucy Sawyer =Elysie Calder
Alex Rees-Thomas

Long Jump
Sorell Shand
Alex Rees- Thomas =Elysie Calder

Discus
Antoinette Mortensen
Paris Hague
Grace Hale

Shot Put
Elysie Calder
Grace Hale
Paris Hague

Following our own school event, we had a large contingent of girls who qualified to compete at the Independent Schools Athletics at St Andrew’s College on Monday 12 November.

Results from this event were:

Year 5
Masha Lukonina
1st Long Jump

Year 6
Ashley Bonne
1st Shot Put, 1st Discus

Year 7
1st Shot Put Charlotte Coughlan
2nd Shot Put Hannah Wareing
Year 7 relay 2nd – Chloe McNeill, Rosa Turner, Frankie Jack, Clara Gomes-Lira

Year 8
Alex Rees-Thomas
1st = Long Jump, 1st 60m, 2nd 100m
Ally Booth
2nd 60m
Year 8 Relay 1st - Alex Rees-Thomas, Ally Booth, Olivia Ferguson, Hayley Douglas

Masha Lukonina, Ashley Bonne, Charlotte Coughlan, Hannah Wareing, Chloe McNeill, Rosa Turner, Alex Rees-Thomas, Ally Booth, Olivia Ferguson and Hayley Douglas have qualified to compete at the Canterbury Primary Athletic Championships on the December 5 at Nga Puna Wai.

Touch – Further to the recent selections we are thrilled to advise that Amy Jones and Chloe McNeill have been selected into the Canterbury U14 Black team. We wish them well this season.

Dragon Boating – The Aoraki Dragon Boat Schools Challenge for Canterbury Secondary Schools’ students was held at Lake Rua on Sunday 11 November. SMC won all three of their heats including a photo finish against Oxford Area School who were a co-ed team. Both these teams went on to contest the final with SMC being the overall runner-up after an extremely close race to the line. Our girls recorded exactly the same time as Marian College to be joint winners of the 650m turns race where the boats race around a triangle shaped course. SMC however did win the chant competition outright.

Hockey – Poppy McNeill was in the Canterbury Development team that tied the Festival of Hockey in Cromwell during the holidays. Well done Poppy.
Fran Williamson has been named in the Hockey NZ U18 squad.
We also have a number of players who have been named in a Canterbury Hockey Regional Performance Centre training squad for the summer. These girls will receive extra skills coaching from some of our top Canterbury coaches.

Sevens Rugby – Last week our Sevens team were successful in qualifying for the National Condor Sevens tournament in Auckland on 1-2 December. These girls are training hard in preparation.

Swimming - NZSS were held in Wellington during the holidays. Our team of Annabel Norris, Emily Barron, Violette Perry, Bridie Finch, Sienna McEwan and Maisy Perriam had a very successful meet. Emily Barron achieved five Top 10 finishes and recorded personal bests’ in every event she competed in. From these results Emily and Bridie have been selected into the Swimming Canterbury West Coast Gold Squad and will travel to Melbourne in December to compete at the Victoria State Age Group Championships. Maisy Perriam has been selected into the Bronze Squad and will compete in the Southland Champs in Invercargill in December.

Tennis - Great results from Labour Weekend- Abby Mason won the National Junior Masters 16s girls (6-3, 6-2).
This is the play offs for the top 8 players per age group in NZ. So a great effort particularly because she is still 14.

Volleyball – Over the weekend SMC had two teams competing in the Canterbury Secondary Schools’ Junior Volleyball tournament. All girls in both teams gained valuable tournament experience and improved their skills.
Our B team finished in 5th place in Div 2 grade and our A girls had a very close final game against a dominant Burnside team, ending in 2nd position in Div 1. Ella Ballantyne, Rosa Davidson and Ellie Withers were named in the tournament team. Great work from all our players.

Helen Belcher
Director of Sport