Sports Department News
New Zealand Cross Country Championships
Congratulations to Zara Geddes who won the NZ Senior Girls 4000m Cross Country Championship in Nelson on Saturday. This is a great achievement for Zara who has had some great tussles with second place runner Catherine from Otago Girls over the past few weeks. Zara ran this distance in 14min 21sec! She also was part of the winning Otago Southland Senior Girls 5x2000m provincial relay team - achieving the fastest girls time. These incredible results have got her selected for the NZSSAA cross-country team traveling over to Adelaide in August.
Taekwondo
Sophia Le too part in the 2022 TUNZ South Island Championship in Christchurch on the 4th of June. Sophia won the Silver medal in the colour belt Poomsae individual event, the Bronze in the team, and Two Gold medals in the Kyorugi.
SISS Swimming
Last weekend, South Island Secondary Schools Swimming Championships 2022 were held at Moana Pool. The event was sponsored by the regional competition sponsor Apollo projects, and took place on the 18th - 19th of June. There was lots of action that took place throughout the competition in the weekend.
The St Hilda’s swimmers had excellent performances in all of their races and gave St Hilda’s a total of 172 school points as well as 8th place in the top 10 Women’s team scores, out of 29 other girl’s schools that competed within that category.
The swimmers also achieved lots of podium placings in their age groups, top 5 placings, as well as personal best times, and scored St Hilda’s 2nd place in the Women's 4 x 25 freestyle kick relay.
Eva Borkowski:
- 1st - Girls 50m freestyle 16 year olds
- 1st - Girls 100m freestyle 16 year olds
- 1st - Girls 50m fly 16 year olds
- 2nd - Girls 16 year olds 4x25m freestyle kick relay
- 5th - Girls 100m Individual medley 16 year olds
Lily Havard:
- 3rd - Girls 13 year olds 100m backstroke
- 4th - Girls 13 year olds 100m fly
Anna Hutchens:
- 2nd - Girls 16 year olds 4x25m freestyle kick relay
Sophie Hutchens:
- 2nd - Girls 16 year olds 4x25m freestyle kick relay
- 5th - Girls 15 year olds 50m backstroke
Malaika Ogbuehi:
- 2nd - Girls 16 year olds 4x25m freestyle kick relay
- 5th - Girls 16 year olds 50m fly
Charlotte Aburn:
3rd - 100m free
5th - 13 year old girls 100 meter fly
6th - 100m IM
(Photos courtesy of Swimming NZ)
Orienteering - Dunedin Schools’ Series (3 events)
Junior Girls category - Individual:
1st - Alice Bennett (Year 9)
2nd - Bella Bamford (Year 10)
3rd - Liesel Tolson (Year 10)
Intermediate Girls category - Individual:
3rd - Ida Rathbone (Year 7)
Charlie Wheeler & Tui Manning-Overton (Year 7) also participated.
Girls High School - Overall:
St Hilda’s came 1st and won the trophy and St Hilda’s also came 2nd in the Intermediate category.
Otago Schools Championship (Sunday 19 June, two courses)
Junior Girls Standard category:
1st - Alice Bennett (Year 9)
Intermediate Girls Standard category:
1st - Ida Rathbone (Year 7)
Roncalli Junior Netball Tournament
5am my alarm clock went off on Sunday morning! Did I really need to get up and what is the weather like? Unfortunately, I did need to get up as our Junior Netball teams were traveling to Timaru for the Roncalli Junior Development Tournament. Despite the freezing cold weather, the teams were fortunate to have a dry day. It's a busy day, with 5 games in quick concession. All of our teams played well and there were some close contests.
9 Magic: This team competed in the B team section. In the semi final they played Ashburton and won, they went onto the final against Craighead. This was a close game which went into extra time and SHCS came out on top.
10 Comets: Playing in the B & Mixed section, this team came to play! Winning their pool play, they came up against Roncalli in the semi and went onto the final against Timaru Girls. Again, SHCS came first.
9A: With Waitaki Girls withdrawn from the tournament, our 9A team only had 2 pool play games against Roncalli and Timaru Girls. In the semi final they played Ashburton and then onto the final against Columba. A defensive game meant a low score of 8-9 to Columba in the last few seconds of the game.
10A: A strong 3 wins in pool play brought the team against Ashburton in the semi final. Unfortunately, the team needed a few extra minutes to catch Ashburton and lost by 2! The team finished strong and came third after beating Roncalli.
Back on the bus for some rest, food and singing!! Thank you for a good day out.
Representative Achievements..
Rugby
Over the weekend, Grace Hastie was named in the Otago Spirit playing squad. Grace has been training hard for the opportunity, so we look forward to seeing her out on the field.
Basketball
Four former SHCS students have been named in the new women's professional basketball league. The Tanihi Basketball Aotearoa League is about to start and the Southern Hoiho team will contain Alesha Ruske, Nicole Ruske, Olivia O'Neil and Zoe Richards.