Timaru Girls' High School Swimming and Athletics Day
Term 1 has started with two main house events, our swimming sports and athletics day!
The Timaru Girls' High School Swimming Sports was held on Friday 16th February at the Timaru Boys' High School pool.
We witnessed great races from our competitive swimmers across the day along with big participation numbers in our house events.
Rata was strong in the pool again in 2024 taking out both the junior and senior inter-house relays and accumulating big house points in the participation and championship events. This year Ngaio took out the top spot for best singing and best house banner.
Congratulations to our Swimming Champions for 2024
Junior Champion - Addison Campbell
Junior Runner Up – Haana Thorp
Intermediate Champion – Emma Campbell
Intermediate Runner Up – Charli McKenzie
Senior Champion – Jamie George
Senior Runner Up – Hannah Heffernan
Record broken:
Congratulations to Emma Campbell who broke the record in the 100m Intermediate Freestyle.
Finals placings:
First - Rata
Second - Konini
Third - Kowhai
Fourth - Ngaio
Thanks to everyone for their efforts on the day and a massive thank you to Timaru Boys' High School for letting 400 girls take over their pool and facilities for the day!
Timaru Girls' High School Athletics Day 2024
We all held our breath as the weather forecast was not looking in our favour a day out from our annual school athletics on Monday 4th March. With every weather app studied over the weekend, we felt confident we would be good to go come Monday and apart from a forecast shower of rain at 8.00am the day turned out brilliant with sun all day!
Participation numbers were high with plenty of smiles and fun had by the girls along with some hard-fought results for those battling for championship titles on the track and in the field events.
Our Tug of War house event was hotly contested by the four houses at lunch time with Rata coming out on top in the Junior competition and Konini taking top honours in the Senior Competition. The inaugural TGHS race walk was also held during lunch time with 160 girls competing in the one lap track walk to earn those sought after points for their house.
Form class relays, house relays and the Teachers v Year 13s v Hostel v Internationals were the last events of the day with some blistering times around the track by our relay runners. Congratulations to Ngaio who won the Inter-house relay cup for 2024.
The Christine Chastle Cup is always a favourite on the day with the 8 fastest girls over 100m squaring off in the one-off race. Congratulations to Bella Thin who took out the race in 2024. Bella also won the Christine Chastle Cup in 2021, 2022 and 2023! We are currently checking the archives to see if this could be a record at Timaru Girls' High School. Amazing result from Bella!
Congratulations to our Athletics Champions for 2024.
Under 19 Champion – Bella Thin
Under 19 Runner up – Holly Thin
Under 16 Champion – Tessa Macdonald
Under 16 Runner up – Helena Shelton
Under 15 Champion – Amya Bird
Under 15 Runner up – Akacia Moss
Under 14 Champion – Rinah Bird
Under 14 Runner up – Addison Campbell & Amelia Martin
House Results
First – Kowhai
Second – Konini
Third – Rata
Fourth – Ngaio
A massive thanks to everyone who helped make our Athletics Day such an enjoyable event.
The full album of photos from the Timaru Girls’ High School Swimming Sports and Athletics Festival can be viewed on the Timaru Girls’ High School Facebook Page.