Athletics Day

On Friday 19th February, we held our school Athletics Day. What a fantastic day it was was with the highest participation rates we’ve seen for years. The day was so packed with participants giving it a go that we ran out of time to run our relays and tally all the scores on the day! We also ran a few events before the big day to lighten the load with the 3000m being run on the Wednesday beforehand. Liam Dooley ran a spectacular race - he broke the previous record in this event. Neil Jones had held this record since 1979 with a time of 9m 35.7s. Liam’s new record breaking time was 9m 33.61s. Congratulations to the following students who took top honours in their respective divisions (Championship points were based on competitiors best two track events, best two field events, plus one other either track OR field event.)

Athletic Champions:

Junior Girls

1st Lily Anderson M 2nd Zoe Giles M 3rd Lily Isaac K

Junior Boys

1st Ben Peat M 2nd Finn Jones R 3rd Jon Tiwha-Smith T

Intermediate Girls

1st Eva Sexton M 2nd Olivia Nolan R 3rd Katie Mahy R

Senior Girls

1st Lara Longney R 2nd Milla Dibben T 3rd Leanna Roebuck R

Intermediate Boys

1st Shaun Snow K 2nd Odin Herrick M 3rd Obssaa Jibril T

Senior Boys

1st Cole Scott K 2nd Liam Dooley M 3rd Leon Fuller R The overall house winner was Rimu House, followed by Matai, Kauri and then Totara.

*Capital letter is short for House they represent:

M - Matai

R - Rimu

T - Totara