Girls Basketball

By Abby Crane

Coming into the season this year, we had our first game on June 19th against Pakuranga College, this was a promotion relegation game which we won 34 – 52. This meant we moved up to the Auckland Senior A grade, the second highest grade in our region. This was a big step for girls’ basketball at Pukekohe High School as no boy’s or girls’ basketball teams have ever made the Auckland Senior A grade before. We have been working hard towards building our team up, to not only do well this year, but also in the future as we have a very young team. We had home and away games on Friday nights for the Auckland Senior A grade.

This year was our first year having home games at our school. We hope in the future to have many more supporters and spectators from the school as basketball becomes more recognized and popular throughout the school. We also played in the Franklin Secondary Schools’ competition which was on Thursday nights at the Franklin Pool and Leisure Center. Because of Covid-19 we had a few tournaments cancelled including 3x3 secondary school nationals and tournament week, which was a bit of a disappointment, but we continued to work hard towards our weekly games and hopefully for tournaments next year. I would like to thank Nicola Post our coach, who puts a lot of time and effort into the team, not only this year but also many years in the past which has really paid off. Would also like to thank the parents who travel all across Auckland to support us; we all really appreciate it. We are excited to see the continually increasing support for basketball in our school and we look forward to seeing the success and growth of girls’ basketball at Pukekohe High School in 2021.