.• The results were Nick Tipling Jamin lnia Tyler Macleod
The Taranakian
The Taranakian a national ranking for the first time. The Year 9 boys raced over 3000m on a flat course and their results were
1st 2nd 3rd
Nick Tipling Matthew Snowden Josh Kerslake Ta Tukaroa Justin Boag KC Hannan
This obviously won them the 3-man race and along with Taura Tukaroa, Justin Boag and Rowan Samson they were easily the 6-man team winners also.
42 44 47 58 59 91
Our Intermediate team was almost as dominant taking out 3 of the first 4 places, although we weren 't strong enough to win the 6-man in this event. Placings were Bryan Martin Hayden Ballantyne Matt Ander
1st 2nd 4th
Bryan and Hayden also ran the two fastest times of the day. The Senior race was full of surprises with school Cross Country results showing no resemblance to the eventual TSS placings. Our top 3 runners were 2nd Jeremy Chapple Daniel James 4th Joel Sims 6th Along with David Maetzig, Ryan Blackbourn and Brent Raven the Seniors won both 3-man and 6-man races.
Our year 9 team results over 3000m were Nick Tipling Tyler Macleod Taura Tukaroa KC Hannan Josh Kerslake Matthew Snowden David Ormrod
4th 6th 13th 21st 24th 26th 30th
The top 3 places combined to 2nd, 13 points behind a strong Napier team . Our under 16 team ran in the same race as the Year 9 boys and they were the winners of this particular race reversing the order with Napier 2nd. Results were 1st 3rd 5th 1Oth 14th 16th 17th
The pressure was now on the Seniors in their 6000m race to finish ahead of Napier to claim the Super 8 title. They responded in style coming home as second team, comfortably ahead of 4th placed Napier. Results were Jeremy Chapple David Maetzig Daniel James James Appleby
7th 9th 1Oth 26th
All 3 of our teams finished in the top 3 of the ir respective races and New Plymouth Boys'were the deserving winners ahead of glamour running schools Napier Boys' and Tauranga Boys' . Congratulation s to the successful team and the challenge is now to defend the title when Super 8 Cross Country comes to New Plymouth in 2003. 18 of the best runners from NPBHS went to Tauranga for the Super 8 Cross Country race on May 24th . The format of the competition has the runners split into 3 divisions with 30 to 40 competitors in each race. The first 3 places in each division combine to give an overall score with the lowest team score winning . The format is excellent as every runner is of equal value and the most consistent team with the strongest depth wins.
A Team
Hayden Ballantyne Nick Wilkinson Matthew Ander Pieter van der Kooij
BTeam
Andrew Clapperton Seb Thomson Fraser Campbell Blair Prescott
The Senior teams were very even and finished in 12th and 13th places . These teams were:
Hayden Ballantyne Matthew Ander Pieter van der Kooij Jam in lnia Nick Wilkinson Michael Torckler Ben Riley
SUPER 8 CROSS COUNTRY
In the under 16 race our top team finished a very creditable 3rd and they were followed by a Boarders team who won a prize for being the first "B" team home. The successful runners were:
NATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS A group of 13 boys and 5 parents travelled to Blenheim at the end of last term for the National Cross Country Championships. This is a huge event with over 1200 competitors taking part from almost every high school in the country. We had runners competing in all 3 age groups, but importantly we had 2 six man teams in the younger age groups to ensure we would achieve
A Team
James Appleby David Maetzig Daniel James Jeremy Chapple
BTeam
Matthew Sturmer Joel Sims David Belgrave Mark Henwood
These placings added to 341 which placed 5th in the teams event.
TSS ROAD RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPS
Our Under 16 team ran over 4000m and their individual placings were
On Sunday September 15th, the annual Bowl of Brooklands Road Relays were held . NPBHS entered 3 teams in this event where each runner completes a 2.4km lap. The age groups for this race are worked out on the students year at school with Years 9 and 10 being Intermediate and Years 11, 12 and 13 being Senior. We entered 2 teams in the intermediate race with these teams finishing first and second and both teams going under the Taranaki record. The winning 4th form team broke the record by a massive 3 minutes and 55 seconds to set an imposing standard for future years . The results were
Hayden Ballantyne Pieter van der Kooij Matt Ander Nick Wilkinson Jamin lnia Michael Torckler
21 30 36 79 84 118
These placings combined to also give the six man team 5th place and Hayden , Pieter and Matt were 4th in the 3 person teams event. Jeremy Chapple was our sole entrant in the Senior Boys race over 6000m and his placing of 78th saw him the first.Taranaki runner home . It was a very successful trip to the Nationals and the team results were outstanding achievements for the boys and good reward for all the training they had put in.
WANGANUI ROUND THE lAKE RELAY Seven teams of 4 athletes was selected to travel to Wanganui for the 24th running of the Round the Lake Relay. This large event has 20 - 30 teams in each event and the standard is very high . In the Year 9 race the Dayboy team finished 7th ahead of our Boareds team who were 12th. These teams were: Dayboys
Boarders
Josh Kerslake David Ormrod Cameron Miller Matthew Snowden Nick Tipling Ta Tukaroa Dex Newland Justin Boag
1st
2nd
Hayden Ballantyne Nick Wilkinson Michael Torckler Matthew Ander
31:24
Josh Kesslake Joe Kisby Rowan Samson David Ormrod
34:44
The Senior event was an event NPBHS had never won. The team was selected from the fastest runners at the recent Wanganui Relay and they finally managed to win this event for the school. The team was 1st
Matthew Sturmer Daniel James • Blair Prescott Pieter van der Kooij
31 :28
Congratulations to all these athletes for performing at an outstanding level. Paul Dominikovich Master in Charge Athletics/Cross Country