Challenge Wanaka

Congratulations to all of our students who competed in Challenge Wanaka. 35 students from Year 7 to Year 13 competed in this wonderful event, either as an individual (swimming, biking and running) or in a team of 3.

First up to start the day was our Year 7, Elzanne Hamman in the Intermediate Challenge! What a great race she had! Then our Year 13 girls started in the Secondary Schools Challenge, with the U19 Individual Girls race. Maddie Cockburn and Zara Geddes were strong competitors in this section.

Congratulations to Maddie, for placing 2nd - only 15 seconds behind Southland's winner!

Our U16 teams took the water next, with eight St Hilda's teams competing!! What a fast section this was and well done to our Gold Team, who took out the U16 Team Challenge, placing 1st!!!! Congratulations Charlotte Aburn, Lily Harvard, Olivia Bezett.

This was followed by the U16 Individual Race, where Honor Garden took out 3rd place! Our U14 team and U14 individual finished the day in the Central Otago heat. Congratulations to all of these students and well done to Bella McEntyre, placing 3rd in the U14 Individual!

All of the students made me so proud, giving it their all and supporting one another. A huge thanks to all of our families who helped make this wonderful event a success and to Darryl Hana, for being our Marshall. Good luck to our students who are competing in the Open Challenge on Saturday!