School Holidays - Wrap Up of Winter Sport!
It has been wonderful seeing school sport getting back to normality after the disruptions of the past two years. We were able to have a successful and full winter tournament week with over 70 events on offer across the motu. The October school holidays were also busy with the end of winter sports reaching their pinnacle events.
Basketball New Zealand delivered their championship events in Palmerston North. Congratulations to all the teams that qualified to attend and special mention to Christs College and Westlake Girls taking out the ‘AA’ Championships and Opunake High School and Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Koutu winning the boys and girls ‘A’ Championship respectively.
In other events, Auckland Grammar School took the overall boys honours in the NZ Road Cycling Champs held in the Manawatū, whilst Baradene College of Auckland took the top prize for the girls. Hamilton Girls’ High School won the New Zealand Secondary School Netball Championships in Porirua, beating a classy St Margaret’s College team in the final. Other events staged in the holidays were, Curling, Artistic Swimming, Clay Target Shooting, Diving, Scholastic Surfing and Track Cycling and Mountain Biking.
Results for these events can be found here. Thank you to all the event organisers who provide such a range of sporting opportunities for our rangatahi to represent their school. Also, a special mention to all the coaches, teachers and whanau who support students in many ways to attend events.
We now turn our attention to summer sports with Junior Tournament to be held from 21 – 25 November, 2022.
We have been working with our sport partners to construct the 2023 National School Sport Calendar and expect to release this to schools next week. We will also be conducting our annual census of school sport participation in the coming weeks. It is vital that we have accurate information from schools to help us support sport partners in their offerings and also to continue to advocate for importance of sport in the lives of our rangatahi.
Good luck for to all schools participating in Term 4 events!