Last Friday evening was a celebration of sporting success at STC with our Sport Awards held at Hornby Working Men’s Club. Over 270 students, parents and staff were in attendance to see the achievements of our young men on the sporting field acknowledged and our major award winners also announced. 

Our major award winners were: 

Intermediate team of the Year: Year 7/8 Futsal (AIMS Games) 

Intermediate Sportsman of the Year: Nico Lavin-Hall 

STC Coach of the Year: Daniel Ryan (Rowing) 

STC Student Coach of the Year: Mathew Ryan 

STC Referee of the Year: Brad Clive (Basketball) 

Outstanding Contribution to STC Sport - Student: Brad Clive (Basketball), Mathew Ryan (Basketball), Treye Butler (Football) 

Outstanding Contribution to STC Sport - Staff/Parent: Tony Kidd 

Rising Team of the Year: U14A Rugby 

Junior Team of the Year: Junior 1st V Basketball 

Junior Sportsman of the Year: Tanae Lavery (Basketball), Oliver Cosgrove (Football) 

Team of the Year: U18 Rowing Double (Logan Anderson and Ben Scarlett), 1st XI Football 

Sportsman of the Year: Mark Loh

Jason Tiatia gave an inspiring message to our young men about the effort and hard work that is the foundation of success.

I’d like to thank Daniel Kahura, Nev Brooker and Brad Clive for their hard work in organising the event, Robbie Lange for his smooth MC debut (the first year of many to come) and to our office staff, Lynley Gibson, Elmarie Els, Jackie Redmond and Ngaire Lester for their support and hard work in preparing for the night. Also, to the band and sound crew a big thank you for your time and effort! 

Finally, congratulations to both Daniel Prescott and Patrick Smith on successful sporting feats of late. Daniel placed 7th at the Inter-Regional Cross Country and only five seconds behind 2nd place. Patrick finished a bronze medal overall at the Canterbury MAG Level 9 event in Gymnastics. Well done Daniel and Patrick!