Sport

Student Sport

Futsal

Our Girls and Boys Futsal teams travelled to the Nationals in Wellington over Summer Tournament week. The girls went on to finish 4th at the National tournament and the boys went on to win their division.

Triathlon

We had one student, Sophie Garrett, who won the BOP Secondary Schools Triathlon, travel to the New Zealand Secondary Schools Triathlon in New Plymouth in the final weekend of Summer tournament week. Sophie competed extremely well but unfortunately had a fall on the cycle but managed to carry on and finish the race which was awesome. Congratulations Sophie.

Rugby Academy

The Rugby Academy is a values based programme. attended by 50 young men and women each Wednesday during term 1.

These young people work hard under the watchful eye of a professional trainer. The Academy concept has been an overwhelming success for our school’s rugby programme while also developing wonderful human-beings. Student engagement has been incredibly high and all intended outcomes have been achieved. The Academy will begin again in Term 4 and will include our Intermediate students.

BOPSS Athletics

As a school we had 36 students compete at the BOP Secondary Schoools Athletics Championships held at the Tauranga Domain on Tuesday 9th March. The following are the students with top results which qualified them to compete at the Waikato Athletics Champs. Junior Girls: Grace Duncan – 1st 1500m Greta Stripling - 4th 100m, 2nd Long Jump, 2nd Triple Jump Miah Smith - 3rd High Jump Lily Frieswyk - 3rd Triple Jump, 2nd Hurdles Junior Girls Relay - 4th Intermediate Girls: Danielle Fowler - 4th 100m Charo Heijnen - 2nd 1500m, 3rd 3000m Senior Girls: Kiana Rae – 1st 200m, 2nd 100m, 2nd Long Jump, 3rd Triple Jump Millie Tisch – 1st 400m Flora Clarke - 4th 400m Senior Girls Relay - 3rd Junior Boys:: Zion Samuels - 3rd 200m Bradley Wiessing - 3rd 300m Lewis McGrath - 4th 300m Nicholas Reeder - 4th 1500m Luca Henderson - 22nd Javelin throw

Intermediate Boys: Eric Yoo - 2nd 100m Robert Unsworth – 1st 200m & 400m Zachaia Tarawera - 4th Javelin throw Intermediate Boys Relay - 2nd

The Bay of plenty Secondary Schools Swimming Champs was held on Tuesday 30th March. The best outcome from the day was that Otumoetai College took out the BOP Swimming Championship. Junior Boys: 1st – Devlin Langton 3rd - Nicolas Reeder

Intermediate Boys: 1st= - Mason Kritz 3rd= - Zac Baveystock Senior Boys: 2nd Zac Reeder

Volleyball

The National Secondary Schools Volleyball Championships were again held in Palmerston North this year. Our A Boys and Girls both qualified for division one. Our A girls finished 8th in division one, A Boys 10th division one.

Badminton

Congratulations to Matthew O’Connor who has joined the Waikato Elite performance Badminton Squad where he will play for the Waikato u19 team.

Mountain Biking

We had four students travel to Auckland to compete in the NI Secondary Schools Mountain Biking Championships. Abby Miller was our only female rider and rode extremely well, she finished 2nd in the Enduro event. Tyrone Laurent-Stokes 4th of 50 u17’s , Sebastian von Brause 18 of 48 u16, Felix von Brause 21 of 33 u15 Boys Congratulations to Ashton Blair who in Canoe Slalom, placed 3rd in NZ Open 2021 C1, under 18 men, and 1st place in Oceania 2021, C1 under 18 Men. Kiarni Sperling, Ashton Blair and Eva Guccione attended the New Zealand Secondary schools Canoe Slalom championships. Eva took away three silver medals for K1 women’s C1 women’s and shared a medal with Kiarni for C2 women. Ashton placed 1st in C2 men’s.

Rowing

The college rowing team this season finished with 14 rowers including 4 novice girls and 3 novice boys. who were invovled in the the biggest Maadi Cup ever with 2623 rowers from 123 schools competing at Lake Karapiro. Our rowing team did us proud with silver medals in girls U16 single (Jenna Brangwynne), girls U17 single (Emma Averill) & girls U17 double (Jenna & Emma) as well as girls U16 double 1st in B final (Chloe Wright & Sarah Laban-ten Dam), boys U18 novice double 2nd in B final (Jack McClutchie & Loui Alexander), girls U16 quad 2nd in C final (Chloe Wright, Sarah Laban-ten Dam, Sarah Paterson, Nina Turner, cox Zara Brangwynne). Our school placed 9th in the Presidents Scull & 19th overall for the Star Trophy. Congratulations to all our rowers for another fantastic Maadi cup. Bring on 2022!

Waterpolo

Congratulations to our Girls Waterpolo team who came a very credibe 10th in the Waterpolo National Tournament held from the 17 - 20 April.