This week, we celebrated as a school and competed in our last school event for the year - swimming sports.

Congratulations to Lily McGrath who broke the intermediate breaststroke record with a swim time of 35.25 seconds.

Well done for to our school swimming champions

7&8: Leila Kindiak

Junior: Victoria Aburn

Intermediate: Lily McGrath

Senior: Charlotte Aburn

Diving Champion: Lucia Luxton

Year 10 Cheerleading.

All houses put in amazing effort over the past few weeks, with great creativity and choreography, we were all impressed.

1st place: Aston & Thomson

3rd place: Richards

4th place: Bentham

Overall house champion for swimming sports: Thomson

Rugby

Congratulations to our First XI rugby team who took the win against Columba on Wednesday in the Metro School Girls Final. A great contested match which saw our girls dominate the second half and coming out 24-17.

Congratulations to Aya Moetaua and Neve Black who have been named in the Otago U18 rugby team and to former SHCS players Grace Hastie and Hannah Lithgow for being named in the NZ Universities team.

Last week of weekly winter sport.. all the best to all our teams heading into their last week of competition for winter. Go out there and do your best

Prefect Netball

On Friday, we had Otago Boys prefect group here for prefect netball. These contests always draws the crowd and a lot laughs are had. It was also great to be able to use our new LED screen/scoreboard for the first time. Our SHCS prefects took the win 14-10.

Thank you to the Grassroots Trust for their support to St Hilda's in us securing the screen, as well as Spa Pools Otago and the school board. It is going to benefit our PE classes, sport competitions and community groups.

Regional Aerobic Competition

Fantastic weekend for all our aerobic competitors at the Otago Regional Aerobics Competition. Full of energy, stamina and sparkles, we had brilliant results for all our teams. Many groups are now heading to nationals in September (at the time of print, we were still waiting on receiving all the results).

Figure Skating

Year 8 student Lydia Peters competed in the South Island Figure Skating Championships last weekend in Gore. Lydia has had a stellar year, winning every competition in which she has entered. South Island's was her first time competing in Basic Novice Girls, an impressive two grades higher than the grade that she competed in last year.  Not only did she take away the Basic Novice Girls' title, but she also achieved a Technical Element Score high enough to qualify for Nationals. 

The Corinne Gilkison Cup, taking place in Dunedin over the weekend of August 31 - September 1, will see Lydia, along with SHCS students Arlea Lewis and Yolanda Liu (Year 10) and Caitlin Ellett (Year 11) compete in the final competition in the South Island before Nationals in October. We wish them well for this event.

Clay trap shooting

Recently Isla Wilson and Emily Cleghorn competed in the Balfour Intercollegiate competition. It was quite a windy day but Isla achieved a high overall ladies single Barrel and Emily got 1st Ladies Single Rise.

*If anyone is interested in this sport for the summer season, please get in touch with Mrs Parker

Re purpose old sports gear:

Next week, please bring in any used sports equipment that you have lying around. Our sports prefects Ruby and Holly are working with Sport Otago to connect with communities to help redistribute this gear.