Hockey

Congratulations to the following hockey players on their selection into the 2022 Waikato Hockey U18 Women’s Team.

Harriet Cooper
Holly Landon
Isla Mangan
Rosie Migounoff
Maddy Shale

They are joined by Old Girl Aleksia Junge (Class of 2021).

All the very best for the representative season ahead!

1st X1 Hockey dress presentation

1st X1 Hockey Dio playing kit presentation — Image by: Waikato Diocesan

Our 1st XI Hockey team was presented their dresses before their first game of the season. This was a special acknowledgement of the honour of being selected into our 65th 1st XI team. The presentation was led by our new coaching team Carla Johl and Kim Herewini (née Tanner) who are both Old Girls and have also proudly worn the dress.

The team capped off the night with a 7-0 win against Hauraki!

Rowing

Coxswain Alice Mackintosh - far left — Image by: Waikato Diocesan

A huge congratulations to coxswain Alice Mackintosh on her selection into the North Island U18 Rowing Team. Alice was also been named Captain of the team!

The team has trained together and then competed in the North vs South Regatta at Lake Karapiro over the holidays.

Awesome work Alice!

Swimming

Three of our swimmers represented their clubs at the 2022 Apollo New Zealand Age Group Swimming Championships and gained some outstanding results!

Sophie Hay - Year 11 - 15-year girls

1500 freestyle - 3rd - Bronze
800 freestyle - 3rd - Bronze
4 x 100 under 15yr girls relay - 3rd - Bronze
400 Free - 5th
400 IM - 5th

Sophie Hay (on right) — Image by: Waikato Diocesan

Hayley McIntyre - Year 10 - 13-year girls

1500 freestyle - 2nd - silver
800 freestyle - 2nd - silver
400 free - 5th
400 IM - 5th
100 fly - 10th

Paige Stringer - Year 9 - 13-year girls

200 backstroke - 3rd - bronze
4 x 100 under 15yr girls relay - 3rd - Bronze
100 backstroke - 5th

Paige Stringer (on right) — Image by: Waikato Diocesan

Recently two of our students also competed at the Division 2 Swim Championships in Dunedin. Congratulations on the results highlighted below:

Hayley McIntyre - Year 10 - 13-year girls

1st 200m backstroke
3rd 200m freestyle and 200m individual medley
4th 100m backstroke
5th 100m freestyle
8th 50m freestyle

Hayley McIntyre (centre) - Division 2 Swimming Champs — Image by: Waikato Diocesan

Ariella Riley - Year 9 - 13-year girls

1st 400m freestyle
2nd 400m individual medley
4th 200m backstroke
9th 200m freestyle
10th 200m individual medley
16th 100m backstroke
22nd 50m freestyle

Ariella Riley in centre — Image by: Waikato Diocesan

Water Polo

Senior A Waterpolo team — Image by: Waikato Diocesan

The Water Polo season wrapped up at the start of this term and both our teams had a great season under the guidance of Jamie Campbell who has returned to coaching at Dio.

Our Senior A finished 3rd and our Development team were 5th equal.

Well done to all who were involved in representing us so well.

Upcoming Events

We are thrilled to be hosting Auckland Diocesan this Monday 23 May for our annual Sports and Cultural Exchange. It has been a long time coming to have them here on our home turf and we can’t wait!

Click here to view the Programme.

Central Zone Cross Country Championships - Tuesday 24th May - Tauhara Park
Waikato Secondary School Swim Championships - Thursday 26th May - Waterworld Te Rapa