Sports News

Recent Results

Swimming

Sophie Hay (Year 12) has had a wonderful swimming season so far and is amongst 40 swimmers named on the Swimming New Zealand Long List for the Youth Commonwealth Games, which will be held in Trinidad and Tobago in August.

• Sophie has broken both the short and long course 1500m Waikato records,
• She came second in the gruelling 10km in the New Zealand Open Water Championships Women's Under 15-17 Age Group and was 4th overall
• She came 3rd in the 5km New Zealand Open Water Championships Open Women's race.

And the most impressive result is that Sophie was also the Top Senior Swimmer in our 2023 Dio Swimming Sports!

Dio Swimming Sports

Congratulations to our top three achievers

• Junior Champion - Paige Stringer
• Intermediate Champion - Ari Riley
• Senior Champion - Sophie Hay

Our top house for Swimming Sports this year is Wilson. Congratulations on the collective effort.

A huge shout-out to the wonderful staff from all departments who supported this event, and without whom, the day could not have run.

Check out the photos from this event in our Photo Gallery section in this issue!

Touch

Supertalented Kate Findlay has been selected for the NZ 18 Women's Touch team to play in Australia in May.

Volleyball

The Waikato Regional Volleyball Championships are underway.

Our students kicked off their season on 25 February with Senior B playing St Peter's B and Sacred Heart B and winning both games. Senior A took the win against St Peter's A. They then went on to win their 4 March game against Te Awamutu High in five sets but lost their second game against Hillcrest High in four sets. Senior B also lost their game to Hamilton Girls' High. 

Futsal

The Senior A team played against Sacred Heart on  26 February and lost in a close 1-0 game.

Cricket

Our 1st XI Cricket team played Rototuna High School and won. The team has qualified for the Gillette Venus Cup Regionals Tournament on the 29 and 30 of March.

Water polo

Our senior water polo team competes in the Waikato Open Grade High School competition. Our Senior A Water Polo team won 6-3 against Hamilton Girls' High on  27 February in their weekly competition. On a side note, this team is looking for a goalie; if you're keen, please email our Water Polo Code Captain, Molly Roberts or contact the Sports Office.

Inline Hockey

Our Dio Vixens team had a win by default last week. Games are weekly on a Thursday at the Hamilton Devils Inline Hockey Rink.

Rowing

Our Dio rowers competed at the Aon Junior Regatta on lake Karapiro on February 25- 26.

As our first age group regatta, we performed exceptionally well, making 19 finals - 15 of which we finished in the top 5 and 5 of which we won.

These crews were:

U18 8+, U17 8+, U16 8+, U15 8+, and U18 and U16 4+.

We have two regattas remaining for the season - NISS Championships, which take place this weekend (from 10 - 12 March) at Lake Karapiro and Maadi (National Championships), which begins 27 March at Lake Karapiro.

Equestrian

Twelve Equestrian team riders competed at the Waikato Secondary Schools' Show Jumping competition last week. The riders were placed into three teams of four, covering the jumping heights of 75cm, 85cm and 95cm in each team. It was an awesome day, with our riders making us proud. Congratulations to the following riders who brought home a top-four place:

• Holly Innes - 75cm Jigsaw 3rd
• Felicity Jones - 75cm Accumulator 4th
• Fleur Street - 85cm 2nd, 85cm Accumulator 2nd
• Libby Street - 95cm Jigsaw 4th, 95cm Accumulator 3rd
• Madison Tierney - 95cm 3rd, 95cm Jigsaw 4th

As we enter the second half of the term, we kick off with trials for our flagship winter sports - hockey, netball and football.

We look forward to meeting our supporters out and about. 

For more information about Dio extra-curricular sports, please email sports@wdsg.school.nz or phone 07 855 2038 ext 2705.