Sports Update
This week we have had the following sports get underway: Water Polo, Volleyball, Summer Hockey, Cricket and Tennis. It has been awesome to see our students participating and get involved in sports they love. The school also had their first two students participate in the Secondary School Petanque league! Touch will get started next week so we look forward to that.
CANCELLATIONS: SISS Athletic Champs, Invercargill, Summer Quadrangular Tournament, Christchurch
This week....
Modified Athletics Day
On Tuesday we took a small group of competitive athletes to the caledonian to compete in a modified athletics day against Columba's athletes. Both schools saw this as an opportunity to work together and provide an opportunity to compete for school trophies and records. It was a beautiful day and the students were in great spirits. Congratulations to Bernice Cullen, who broke a Senior Long Jump record with a distance of 5.31m, while also doing a personal best jump. In our athletics day we don't offer a triple jump event but we did on Tuesday, Bernice jumped 10.55m which is another PB. Renee Willis also threw a massive Shot Put throw of 12.08m for a PB. To better her PB by 40cm!!
On the track, Billie Crowe took out the 800m, Zara Geddes won the 1500m and our senior relay team took top honors. Well done to all of our athletes that came down.
Fern Fever for 7&8
Also on Tuesday our Year 7&8 students headed to Logan Park Turf to take part in a Fern Fever Event. This was put on by Otago Cricket, Otago Rugby and Football South. The afternoon provided our students a chance to be introduced to a sport they may never had played and to work on their ball skills. The event is run to celebrate the three upcoming Women's World Cup events that take place over the next year and to recognise women in sport.
Otago Secondary School Tennis
After a wet start and drying off the courts, Otago Secondary School Tennis Champs got underway on Wednesday. The school had great representation in all divisions and some great contests were had. It turned out to be a beautiful afternoon for final games.
Division 1: winners - Mya Haigh & Penny Nicholson, 3rd place Bernice Cullen & Amelia Newlands
Division 2: runners up - Charlotte McKenzie & Billie Crowe
Division 3: winners - Georgia & Millie Roy, runners up: Georgie Lawson and Fiona Hunt.
Sport Prefects & Liaisons - 2022
Prefects - Gemma Rowcroft & Bronte Crowe
Hockey - Ava Beens & Billie Crowe
Netball - Bernice Cullen
Touch - Demi McAlwee
Football - Sophie Whylie
Rugby - Anya Clark & Grace Hastie
Cricket - Anna McClean and Chloe Deerness
Aerobics - Isabella Tierney
Athletics - Billie Crowe/Zara Geddes
Futsal - Olivia Hall
Rowing - Christy Foster
Swimming - Malaika Ogbuehi
Volleyball - Tessa Putt
Water Polo - Tiana Brummitt-Rodrigeuz
Trapshooting - Rosa Smith
Golf - Harriet Sinclair
Badminton - Sienna Wright
Curling - Amy Simpson
Cross Country - Zara Geddes
Basketball - Laura Ring
Harriers - Laura Milne
Tennis - Claudia Christie
Triathlon - Maddie Cockburn
Ice Hockey - Bella Gilmour
These students are here to help their sport community to help during the year. They will be out and about supporting our sports people and feeding back results and achievements. Please feel free to contact them with questions or ideas.
Otago Rugby Development Days
Surf Lifesaving
Kyla Ashton, Charlotte Aburn, Jess Hanna and Victoria Aburn competed last weekend in Christchurch at the Junior Southern Regional Championship for SLSNZ.
OVERALL UNDER 14 GIRLS in the South Island:
1st - Charlotte Aburn
2nd - Kyla Ashton
3rd - Jess Hanna
OVERALL UNDER 12 GIRLS in the South Island:
2nd = Victoria Aburn
Well done girls!