Senior Girls:  Our Senior Blue team of Zara Geddes, Billie Crowe, Maddie Cockburn and Molly McKenzie took out first place in the Senior Girls Section with a time of 28min 11sec.

Junior Girls: SHCS Green (Olivia Bezett, Jess Hanna, Ruby Hore, Isabella Helm) came second in the junior section with our other teams of Pink, Red and Yellow finishing 5th, 6th & 7th

Otago Secondary School Swimming Championships

Last week on Sunday, we had a team of four compete at the Otago Secondary School’s swimming championships in Dunedin. St Hilda’s had a team of six swimmers which were Eva Borkowski, Anna Huthchens, Sophie Hutchens and Malaika Ogbuehi.

All the St Hilda’s swimmers had excellent performances in their races, and all of them earned lots of top 3 placings in most of their races, which were great results for the school. The podium placings for the event were :

Women’s 15 and over 50 fly :

1st - Eva Borkowski

Women’s 15 and over 50 free :

1st - Eva Borkowski

Women’s 15 and over 200 breaststroke :

1st - Sophie Hutchens

2nd - Anna Hutchens :

Women’s 15 and over 400 freestyle:

3rd - Anna Hutchens

Women’s 15 and over 200 Medley :

2nd - Malaika Ogbuehi

Women’s 15 and over 200 Freestyle :

2nd - Malaika Ogbuehi

Women 15 and Over 100 Meter Freestyle

1st - Eva Borkowski

The St Hilda’s A relay team placed 1st in the Women’s 4x200 Freestyle relay, and also placed 3rd in the Women’s 4 x 200 Medley Relay. In both relays, The St Hilda’s A team competed against Dunstan Girl’s High School, and Otago Girl’s High School in both relays.

Congratulations to all of the swimmers who competed in this event, they have all achieved great results, and will continue to to achieve more amazing results in the following competitions ahead. 

Sport Defaults and Sickness

As you are all aware, there is a large amount of sickness within the school. While we understand that this means some students are unable to participate in their sports teams, what the sports department does expect is plenty of notice if teams are short and unable to play. The department is receiving too many emails (or none at all) late in the day for games that afternoon to default as teams are short. 

Can we please ask everyone that plays in a team to communicate with coaches, managers, captains & team members early around availability. We all look forward to game day and it's disappointing on team members and the opposition for late defaults and teams not turning up. With most sports not playing over the weekend, please rest and recover. Rachael & Erin