There's been a lot going on over the recent school holidays!

Netball
Well done to our 9A and 10A Netball teams that took part in the Junior South Island Netball Tournament in Christchurch in the first week of the holidays. They all played some fantastic Netball and did Waimea College proud. A huge thank you to Gracie McMillan and Hailey Page-Gargiulo who travelled with the teams as umpires for the tournament, they both did an incredible job.

Well done to Lexie Nisbett, Grace Shirley and Destiny Sproul who all travelled to Hamilton to represent Nelson in the Netball NZ U18 Champs. Unfortunately, Lexie sustained an injury on Day 2, we wish her all the best in her recovery.

Orienteering
Eddie Swain has recently returned from competing at the European Youth Orienteering Champs in Bulgaria. He then went on to compete in the 5 Days of Italy event amongst 1200 athletes from 38 countries where he placed 2nd in the Stage 5 Sprints in his age category.

The NZ Secondary Schools Orienteering Champs were run in Blenheim this year. Well done to the following students for their results – Eddie Swain 1st Sprint, 2nd Senior Boys Long Course; Zoe Bonny 4th Intermediate Girls Standard Long Course; Joseph Cameron 21st Intermediate Boys Long Course.

Rugby
Well done to Riley McCuish-Hocking for his selection in the NZ U18 Māori Rugby camp taking place in Rotorua.

Basketball
The Nelson U17 Basketball team won the National Championships. The team included 7 Waimea College players – Will Blight, Jonty Bond, Kaden Bracey, Hayden Jones, Jordy Moore, Lucas Trench and Coen Williams, as well as our Senior A Boys coach, Phill Jones. Hayden was named Tournament MVP and he, along with Jonty and Kaden, were named in the tournament team. This team went undefeated all season, going 12-0.

A large contingent from Waimea College travelled to Christchurch to play Basketball in the Mainlands Invitational Tournament in various Nelson Basketball representative teams. This included Jerome Sinclair, Micaiah Sampson, Tom Ladley (U18) Cooper Adams, Zach Redpath (U15A), Zac Shirley, Larz Wadsworth, Harry Thomas (U15B), Zac Sampson, Jackson Speedy (U15 Dvlpt). The U18 team and U15A teams both finished 1st and the U15 Development team came in 4th.  Cooper Adams was top goal scorer across all teams! Cooper Hope and Will Stilwell also travelled to the tournament to referee, well done to Will who was selected to officiate the girls final.

Ava Jones and Enna Soutar, as well as coach Kat Jones, travelled to Auckland to represent Nelson Basketball in the New Zealand U15 Girls Championships, where the team finished in 7th place. Jerome Sinclair also travelled as the referee.

Football
Nelson Suburbs competed in the Alan Fraser Tournament in Kaiapoi. The team included 6 Waimea College students – Ami Bruce, Sian Davies, Amber McConnochie, Abi Platt, Paisley Richardson and Giselle Rynvos. After three days of games the team were crowned champions after winning all six games, scoring 23 goals and conceding none. To play as well as they did and not concede a goal in often difficult (wet and muddy) pitches was a fantastic achievement from the players.

Giselle won Golden Boot (in a tie with a player from South Canterbury) and Amber won Golden Glove.

Well done to the following boys who represented Nelson in the U14 Boys Football tournament, Ashton Connell, Oliver Costley, Fergus Keys and U15 Boys tournament, Morgan Finch, Lucas Marshall, Daniel Tomlinson and Zac Hardwick.

Cricket
Congratulations to Eddy Cox, Cam McLean, Carl Quinn and Bryn Thurlow who travelled to the International Cricket Academy league in Australia to play in the U18 International Invitational tournament in the Gold Coast, where they were silver medalists.

KartSport
Well done to Ollie Workman who competed in the KartSport National Schools Champs. It was a rather wet weekend for the racers and Ollie finished 11th overall, racing in the Rotax Light field for just the second time.

Table Tennis
Congratulations to ex-Waimean Alfie Linn, who traveled to France to compete in the Victus Global Games, bringing home both a Silver and a Bronze medal in Table Tennis.

Volleyball
Holly Chandler, Lilly Zwart and Katie Adamson were all selected as athletes in the New Zealand Volleyferns team who recently travelled to Chile. What a fabulous achievement to be a part of this team and to represent New Zealand.

Jobe McCauley and Seb Lams travelled to Auckland in the holidays for the NZ Junior Men’s camps, where they also played training games against Club and University teams.

Swimming
Best of luck to Samantha Wilson who will travel to Wellington to compete in the NZSS Swimming Champs.

We love to hear of any news regarding our individual students or sports teams so please keep us informed sport@waimea.school.nz