Cricket: Pre-season trip

Our Cricket XI travelled to Wellington for a day of two T20s as a way to start their season and campaign to Nationals in December. Here are the results:

Results - Game 1 vs Wellington Girls College 1Xl. St Hilda's - won the toss and elected to bat first for a total of 140/2.

H.Wilson 46, M. Senthilkumar 29, E. Gibson 23 W.G.C110/8, A. McClean 3-1, H. O'Connor 2-20.

Results - Game 2. vs Scots College 1Xl. Scots - won the toss and elected to bat first for a total of 109/7.

A.McClean 3-8, N.Wright 2-15, H O'Connor 2-2. St Hilda's - chased down their total in the 12th over110/0. E.Gibson 40 retired, M. Senthilkumar 22 retired, H.Wilson 14 retired.

Student Achievements

Rugby: Congratulations to Hannah Lithgow who has been selected into the New Zealand U18 Rugby team.

Basketball:  A great result for the Otago U13Girls Basketball team at the South Island tournament held in Ashburton in the holidays. They achieved silver medals and a team trophy for being runners up in A grade. They were unbeaten in pool play, beat Nelson in the semi and faced Canterbury in a tough final. The girls should be really proud of their performance over the four days.

Hockey: Ava Beens, Billie Crowe and Georgia Roy participated in the Future Black Stick Development Camp over the holidays.

Touch: Jannah Hooper, Kyla Ashton, Anahera Koni and Rosie Gaffaney also took part in the NZ U16 Emerging Talent Programme.

2024 Netball Coaches

St Hilda's Collegiate are seeking expression of interests from coaches to join their netball community team in 2024. Netball at St Hilda's has a strong and successful history at the local and secondary school competition level and we are looking for new coaches to develop the future players of our school. If you have a passion for netball, an interest to develop netball fundamentals and create a strong team culture, then please get in contact.

Head and assistant coach positions are available in both the Senior A and B teams and Junior teams of all levels. Please email Director of Sport, Rachael Parker for an expression of interest form, rparker@shcs.school.nz

Cycling: Give it a go

If anyone is keen on giving Track Cycling a go, feel free to turn up at the following open day, bikes are provided.

New Zealand National Ice Figure Skating Championships

Earlier in the year Arlea Lewis (Year 9) qualified to compete at the New Zealand National Ice Figure Skating Championships. Last week this competition was held at the Dunedin Ice Stadium. Arlea had a stellar skate to the music of the movie Coraline. Her performance contained two double jumps, two axels and she achieved Level 2 in both of her spins. Arlea won her grade and she is the 2023 Basic Novice Girls National Champion. 

Congratulations Arlea.