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on occasions and some high-scoring wins resulted. The team was ably led by Peter Jackson and Jeremy Harker. The forwards were always competitive, winning a high percentage of ball. The backs were always penetrative.

A great depth of talent and promise was evident in all players, and this augurs well for the future of the game at the college. A highly enjoyable season resulted with special thanks to Bob Stephan and Peter Jackson (senr.) for their help and support.

5a Team

This year has been a very enjoyable and rewarding one for the 5A side. The excellent team spirit and unity contributed in no small way to very good performances every week. The team, early on in the season, proved to be very formidable opposition, and finished by winning all but two of their games, which placed them first equal with Rongotai in the competition.

There were certainly “tense” moments in many of the games, but determination and intelligent play enabled the team, for example, to win against Scots, and thus make up for their earlier defeat. The narrow loss against Rongotai, and a narrow win against Tawa, reflect how close the competition was in this year’s fifth grade. I think that ultimately, what enabled a team to win, was a very good mastery of basic skills (passing, running, tackling), as opposed to any “complicated” or “planned” movements. It was also pleasing to see the ball passed out quickly along the backline more often than is usually seen at this level.

Congratulations to the boys in the team, and thanks to the parents for their regular and strong support.

J. Tate

SEVEN-A-SIDE RUGBY INTER-FORM TOURNAMENT

Results:

3G beat 3AN (17-0).

40 beat 4L (5-0).

5Gen beat 5AG (14-4).

6Z3 beat 6Z10(23-0).

7Z2 beat 7Z3 (5-0).

ROWING TEAMS

Skiing

The North Island secondary school skiing championships were held on 21-22 September at Turoa. The team sent away this year was fairly inexperienced, so mixed hopes were held by all.

On Monday the weather was miserable but good times were received with E. Falconer coming 10th, J. Bullyment 21st, P. Willis 25th, M. Willis 31st, from the senior boys event with 86 competitors. T. Stroud came 4th out of the junior boys.

For the second day the team was well-placed to gain a good position, however, luck didn't seem to go our way. Tom's binding broke so he was disqualified, and two other members had unfortunate runs also resulting in disqualification.

The team ended up 6th on points putting them 13th overall. A good time was had by all, with thanks to D. Guthrie for strong moral support.

E. Falconer

Ski Team

Rowing

Throughout the winter on Wellington Harbour, members of the rowing club have worked hard with some very favourable results indicating an even more successful future.

Two training camps were held during the August holidays, one in Wanganui (right by the river) and the other in Wellington with the Star Boating Club which coached our crews so well that they were placed first and second in the men's novice fours in the Redding Shield Regatta on October 1st. This was held in Oriental Bay. Then in the Porirua Goodwill Regatta our crew won both the men's novice fours and the college fours.

The team was: Stroke: G. Toth; Three: C. Buchanan; Two: A. Barron; Bow: W. Brown.

Again, the same four won the collegiate fours race in the Norton Cup Regatta on November 12th, at Petone.

Our rowers were coached for these events by the New Zealand Junior Women's singles champion, Nicki Osten, who has left the inspiration of her enthusiasm as she departed to live in Christchurch. With continued coaching by the Star Boating Club, our club members look forward to future regattas and training camps, notably the Wairoa Regatta, immediately after Christmas. We are now established members of the N.Z. Secondary Schools Rowing Association, and we look forward to seeing the black and gold well up in front at the Maadi Cup Regatta (the big one) on Lake Karapiro in March, 1984.

Honours pockets for 1983 have been awarded to Gabor Toth, Warwick Brown, Simon Phear, Andrew Barron, Craig Buchanan.

The college eight are: Stroke: G. Toth, Seven: D. Sloane, Six: W. Brown, Five: S. Phear, Four: A. Barron, Three: C. Buchanan,Two: M. Klitcher, Bow: P. Raphael.

Other rowers include: P. Ansell, C. Dickson, B. Bushe, J. Ward, C. Hanlon, M. Kingsbury, D. Wardell and C. Sheppard.

Singles scull and pairs races have also been entered by W. Brown and S. Phear.

Club captain and secretary for the season were Gabor Toth and Craig Buchanan. The club wishes to thank the Star Boating Club and Mr J. M. Henderson who have encouraged and helped the team spirit along.

Latest news is that there is powerful talk about the purchase of our own boat for victory in future fours.

Warwick Brown

Swimming

It was an exceptional year for swimming at Wellington College. The outstanding Cook Strait and Lake Taupo relay swim successes were major events in the history of the College, which captured not only the interest and the imagination of the college community, but the attention of the New Zealand public.

Wellington College achieved some further notable successes through some very impressive individual and team performances in the local swimming competitions, and also enjoyed some good competition and fine swimming at its own swimming sports.

Wellington Quadrangular Swimming Sports

Due to a set of circumstances beyond our control, this year's Quadrangular Sports actually preceded our own swimming sports, which made the selection of a team to represent the college in all events a very difficult business. However, with the valuable assistance of Andrew Salek, Adam Perrott, Simon Holst, Bill Bamber and Neil Wiffin, a team was selected and organised for Friday, 25th February, at the Freyberg Pool. Throughout the meeting these same seniors ensured that the junior swimmers knew when to report for their races and helped to remove any of the communication difficulties throughout the morning. This help was very much appreciated

Quite a few of the swimmers from the four colleges knew each other through club competition, and the predominant mood of this meeting is always one of co-operation and friendly rivalry. Nevertheless, this swimming meeting involving Wellington, Rongotai, St Pat's and Scots Colleges, still produces some very keen competition between the four schools.

Our team performed extremely well, and in the final analysis narrowly took final honours from St Pat's Colege with 14 firsts, 15 seconds and a third placing. The senior grade was particularly powerful, gaining 10 firsts, 6 seconds and 4third placings for the team. There were some very fine individual efforts which helped to produce such a good overall team effort.

Peter Larsen won the 200 m Freestyle Open, which was a tremendous effort considering he was competing in the Under-14 grade. He also lowered the Under-14 100m Freestyle record by over 2 seconds to 1 min 6.1 sec. Andrew Howman went hard for the under 15 one length butterfly record, although he was just beaten into second place in a fiercely contested race.

Simon Holst, Bill Bamber, Andrew Salek and Adam Perrott equalled the quadrangular record for the Over16 Freestyle relay.

Quadrangular Title Holders

200 m (open) Freestyle: P. Larsen, 33 m Over-16 Freestyle: S. Holst,

33 m Over-16 Butterfly: B. Bamber,

66 m Over-16 Breaststroke: A. Salek,

66 m Over-16 Butterfly: A. Perrott,

100 m Over-16 Freestyle: A. Salek, 100 m Over-16 Breaststroke: A. Perrott,

100 m Over-16 Backstroke: C. Kyle, 33 m Under-16 Backstroke: K. Pillar, 33 m Under-14 Butterfly: G. Quinn, 100 m Under-14 Freestyle: P. Larsen, Under-14 Medley Relay: G. Quinn, G. Ross, N. Kveng, P. Larsen.

Over-16 Medley Relay: B. Bamber, C. Kyle, A. Salek, A. Perrott.

Over-16 Freestyle Relay: B. Bamber, A. Salek, S. Holst, A. Perrott.

Our thanks to St Pat's for hosting a very enjoyable and well-organised meeting. As next year's hosts we look forward to another friendly and enjoyable quadrangular competition at the Freyberg Pool in February, 1984.

School Swimming Sports

Over 300 competitors entered this year's swimming sports. The response from the junior school was especially enthusiastic although the response from the 6th and 7th forms was disappointing with relatively few taking part. This year the sports were split up into two distinct grades:

(i) the championship grade and (ii) the B grade. The idea was to offset the yearly domination of the club-trained swimmers over most events, and to have them compete against each other for their respective age-group championships. The B-grade was intended to offer the "average" swimmer an opportunity to swim competitively against other swimmers of comparable standard

This created a very full programme, and necessitated a lot of organisation, however, it proved a great success. It opened up the swimming sports to a wider range of pupils who in no way aspired to a championship level, and yet were still able to race with a realistic opportunity of getting a place.

On Monday, 28th February, preliminaries were held for both grades at the college pool, and on Wednesday, 2nd March, the championship and B-grade finalists assembled at the Freyberg pool for what turned out to be very enjoyable swimming finals with some excellent races. Four new records were set.

Grant Quinn equalled the U-14 one-length butterfly record while Andrew Howman set a new mark of 21.5 secs for the U-15 one-length butterfly. Andrew Howman and Peter Larsen ensured exciting competition in the U-15 grade — the latter, (a 4th former,) winning the 200 m freestyle open in impressive fashion.

Cameron Kyle and Stuart Holden keenly contested the U-16 competition. Adam Perrott completely dominated the over-16 championship in winning every race he entered, and setting two new records — one-length Freestyle (17.3 secs) and one-length butterfly (19.0 secs)

The 6Z4 relay team (Neil Wiffin, Simon Holst, Adam Perrott and Andrew Salek) set a new 6th form 4 x 1 length freestyle relay record, improving the old mark by 31/2 seconds to 1 min 8.0 secs.

Two swimmers who perhaps deserve special mention are Philip Martin (4th form) and Simon Holst (6th form). Although neither has ever had pool training, they both entered the championship grade, with Philip Martin gaining six third placings in the U-15 grade and Simon Holst gaining two seconds and three third placings in the seniors. As members of the Cook Strait relay team, both revealed a commendable attitude and the discipline necessary for the hours of rigorous training in the icy harbour waters. As a result they were able to improve their swimming techniques markedly, becoming stronger and much-improved swimmers.

Thanks must be given to the Headmaster and staff who helped with the organisation and the running of both the preliminaries and the finals. Class 5AN are to be congratulated for the very efficient way in which they ran all the official and administrative tasks associated with the finals at Freyberg Pool. Thanks once again to the Freyberg Pool staff for their cooperation and help.

Prize Winners: Fitzgerald Cup— Grant Quinn; Hellaby Cup — Andrew Howman and Peter Larsen (joint); Bramwell Cup — Stuart Holden; Newman Cup — Cameron Kyle; Fitzgerald Cup — Andrew Salek; Miles Cup — Adam Perrott.

Wellington Centre Relay

The Wellington secondary schools' relay championship consists of a 6 x 50 metre relay where each team must include two third-formers, two fourth-formers, and two from either the 5th, 6th or 7th forms. The championships were held at Tawa Pool on Saturday, 30th April, and included all colleges in the greater Wellington area.

The school team comprised: Stephen Matheson, Grant Quinn (3rd formers); Peter Larsen, Andrew Howman (4th formers); Simon Holst, Adam Perrott (6th formers).

Having convincingly won the first heat by more than a length of the pool, the college fought a very exciting and closely contested final against Aotea College to eventually win by half-a-metre.

North Island Secondary School Championships

Four swimmers swam under the North Island swimming championship qualifying times in order to compete at the Lido Pool in Palmerston North on Saturday, 19th March. They were: Andrew Howman (Junior 100 m and 200 m backstroke); Peter Larsen (Junior 100 m and 200 m Freestyle); Andrew Salek (Senior 100 m Breaststroke); Adam Perrott (a number of Breaststroke, Freestyle and Butterfly races of which he could choose two).

As it happened, not one of these four attended the meeting, as this was the day chosen for the attempt to relay-swim Lake Taupo. All four were members of the relay team formed to swim Cook Strait, and each opted generously to aid the college team to become the first to relay-swim Lake Taupo. It was a very unselfish gesture by these boys to forgo the chance of a more individual type of success at the secondary school championships, and this was certainly appreciated by the rest of the relay team and the support crew.

College Swimming Results

Championship Events (Grade A)

Senior

Intermediate

Junior

Under 13

The Cook Strait Relay

On Saturday, 19th March, 1983, fourteen Wellington College students became the first secondary school relay team to swim Lake Taupo in a record time of 10 hours, 42 minutes, 11 seconds. Three days later, these same swimmers again created history to enable Wellington College to be the first secondary school to relay-swim the notorious Cook Strait waters. The time was a record of 7 hours, 19 minutes, 24 seconds.

The apparent ease with which these swimming feats were accomplished within a three day period belies the considerable efforts and sacrifices made by these swimmers, their families and the support crew.

The successful relays were the culmination of a rigorous daily training programme which began in September the year before and often involved swimming, without insulating grease, in temperatures as low as 6° Celsius

Old boy, Mr R. Page, generously made himself and his boat available to us, which allowed invaluable open water practice in the centre of the harbour. The icy Island Bay waters, however, provided the most common training ground with the aid of Mr W. Anderson and the Surf Club's rescue craft.

Training highlights included a group swim from Petone to Somes Island, and four opportunities to swim around the island at Island Bay.

Cook Strait is noted for its unpredictable behaviour, its swells, tides, rips, wind, rough waves and constant cold. We were extremely fortunate to have Mr. J. Cataldo as our pilot. He has had a long association with Cook Strait crossings and an intimate knowledge of this particular stretch of water. All we could do through February and early March was to resign ourselves to the Strait's variable moods. Time was running out for the swim, the weather was not improving, and the team was having to rely on tremendous self-discipline to keep themselves at peak mental and physical condition as well as cope with the constant deferrals owing to either bad weather, unfavourable tides, or both.

Lake Taupo Conquered

The attempt to swim Lake Taupo was organised as an intermediate challenge to fill the gap left by the Strait's disappointing behaviour. Sincere thanks must be offered to the parents of the boys who organised and provided transport, accommodation, meals, supervision and support throughout the weekend. Adam Perrott entered the Taupo waters from Stump Bay at 6.00 a.m. and under the guidance of Pilot, Mr P. Cox, the team swam the fastest crossing ever made of the Lake.

With Sunday spent travelling, Monday recovering, it was a surprise to get the assembly call for a Strait crossing. We boarded the San Antonio at Waterloo Wharf at 1.00 a.m. for a long, cold, cramped and "seasick" trip to the South Island starting point.

After a sleepless trip, Andrew Salek entered the chilly waters at Perano Head at 6.45 a.m. in almost perfect conditions. As the crossing progressed, the swimmers were forced to cope with a growing northerly, seasickness, a couple of rips, choppy conditions and jellyfish as they closed in on Ohau Point, North Island.

As Philip Martin waded ashore at approximately 2 p.m., not only had history again been made in the Strait waters, but six months of intense training and self-discipline had given all fourteen members a piece of that history, and an experience of a lifetime.

The team included:

Mr M. McCrea (Organiser)

Mr M. Vaughan (Coach)

Bill Bamber, John Bulleyment, Anthony Bush, Stuart Holden, Simon Holst, Andrew Howman, Cameron Kyle, David Larsen, Peter Larsen, Philip Martin, Adam Perrott, Brent Rollings, Andrew Salek and Neil Wiffin.

Open Water Swimming

Open water swimming does not normally feature prominently at Wellington College. However, the intense open water training schedule designed to prepare 14 of the college swimmers for the Cook Strait relay crossing certainly made some of the swimmers very strong sea swimmers.

We congratulate Cameron Kyle (15 years) on a couple of very impressive open water swims in which he competed this year. In the annual Kapiti Island to Kapiti Coast swim, he came 7th in a time of 1 hour 58 mins in fairly cold and rough conditions. He also competed in the swim across Lake Wiritoa, coming third overall, but picking up the prize for the first junior home, as well as the first male home.

Summary

There is a lot of potential for swimming at Wellington College. However, much has to be done to develop large areas of latent potential, if we are to offer a comprehensive swimming programme to the boys.

The aim is for a swimming programme which not only offers the rudiments of water safety survival skills and associated rescue techniques to all boys, but the implementation of a learn-to-swim programme for the non-swimmer, the opportunity for stroke development and regular swimming for the "adequate" swimmer, and a drive to establish swimming as a healthy and pleasurable recreational activity which can be enjoyed for the rest of one's life.

The swimming department is encouraged by the time given, and interest shown, by the Headmaster in the discussion of various proposals seeking to develop swimming. We are also very thankful for the considerable time and expertise gratuitously given the college by Mr Eric Ireland (Consulting Engineer) in the drawing up of a feasibility report on redevelopment proposals for the college pool as part of an overall study of our swimming needs.

We look forward with expectation to the many benefits that the present proposals, although still under discussion, hold for swimming at the college.

M.Vaughan, Swimming Master

Table Tennis

This year the small group of serious players in the school have had to look beyond the college grounds to find suitable playing facilities. The Wellington Table Tennis Association's stadium was the venue for the school championships in August and for various coaching activities.

The school's top players play inter-club for their own clubs but about ten boys have enjoyed the experience of playing in inter-club teams entered under the name of Wellington College in both summer and winter competitions.

The college's top team, Robert Kerr, Keith Aldersley and Craig Richardson were again untroubled to win the Wellington Secondary Schools' teams competition and travelled to New Plymouth to play in the North Island finals. Seeking a third successive victory in this event

The team was unlucky to lose to eventual national winners, Westlake Boys' High School. One player was ill during the tournament and our doubles pairings did not click. K. Aldersley was, however, the only unbeaten player in the secondary schools' section.

Garry Marshall won the Under-15 boys singles event in the Wellington Secondary Schools' Table Tennis Championships.

A total of 13 pupils were invited to attend the Wellington Association's Junior training squads in Term 2.

R. Kerr completed five consecutive wins in the school championships, his opponent in this year's final being the promising third former Jason Wong. G. Marshall won the Under-15 singles event and teamed with Peter Cooper to win the Under-15 doubles. R. Kerr and Andrew Keall repeated their 1982 open doubles success.

Wellington Association Rankings

Men: 3rd, R. Kerr; 8th, K. Aldersley.

Under-18 Boys: 1st, R. Kerr; 2nd, K. Aldersley; 4th, C. Richardson; 8th, G. Marshall; 9th, J. Wong.

New Zealand Association Rankings

Under-18 Boys: 6th, R. Kerr.

Under-16 Boys: 4th, K. Aldersley; 6th, C. Richardson.

Wellington Representative Teams to National Championships

Men: R. Kerr.

Under-18 Boys: R. Kerr (Capt.), K. Aldersley, C. Richardson.

Under-15 Boys: J. Wong, G. Marshall.

Honours Pockets

R. Kerr, K. Alderseley, C. Richardson.

Inter-Club Competition

2nd Division: Mr D. Cook, G. Marshall, P. Cooper (placed second in the competition).

3rd Division: Team 1: Mr D. Cook, Daniel Aldersley, Anthony Simonsen.

Team 2: Mr G. Stoop, Grant Alexander, Michael Mead.

Winter Competition

C Grade Second Division: Peter Young, Richard Cullwick, M. Mead and A. Simonsen.

Tennis

It has been a very interesting year for tennis, with a "stuttery" start but an excellent finish.

At the beginning of the year we played the Scots College top six with a very weakened team, thinking we could still beat them. Paul Swallow played number one and won both his games, but we finished losing 5-4.

We played Rongotai losing 5-4. Finally, in the local competition, we played the previously unbeaten St Pat's team and won 6-3.

In the non-local fixtures our fifth and fourth form teams played Palmerston North Boys' High School resulting in a win and a loss. We played Napier Boys' High School at Napier with a very weakened team but still had a comfortable win. The final fixture of the 1982-83 season was the Quadrangular Tournament held in Auckland. Our team comprised Tony Edgar, Craig Johnson (Captain), Chris Clark, Andrew Davidson, Paul Swallow, Graeme Edie and Simon Ellis.

On the first morning we had to play our traditional rival P.N.B.H.S. whom we beat, but unfortunately these matches took until 2 p.m. to complete. As there were only four courts we had to play Hamilton Boys' High School immediately. It was too much in the intense heat to beat the "well-rested" Hamilton team, so we suffered our first loss to them.

Also in the first term we had three teams in the local Saturday competition. These teams were reasonably successful, but this season we have replaced this with Saturday morning tennis at school. The senior championship was won by Chris Clark, who had a surprise win over last year's champion Tony Edgar. Tony Edgar and Stewart Gray won the doubles for the second year in a row. The junior champion is Adam Thomson, with David Hiddleston runner-up.

The 1983-84 season has started extremely well, with a 20-0 win over Wanganui Collegiate and a 19-2 win over Hastings Boys' High School. The newly started Saturday morning tennis has been well patronised with all courts being used on the few fine Saturdays we have had in recent weeks.

Finally, the inter-form tennis has been very popular with winners being 5AN and 4AL.

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Senior Tennis Team

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Underwater Hockey Team

players have shown growing skill with each game.

Both teams have had an unlucky period early in the season with 'flu regularly keeping at least one player absent from both teams, but substitutions from one team to another helped to bolster team numbers and give our opponents a good run for their money.

Under Water Hockey

'A' Team: C. Savage (Captain and Sport Organiser), P. Trow, G. Burgess, K. Pillar, 0. Grimwood,C. Johnson. C. Johnson.

'B'Team: G. Laking (Captain), A. McCallum, P. Baars, Z. Paris, T. Strange, G. Ward.

Underwater Hockey has been severely curtailed this year because of major renovations at the Boys' Institute Pool, and we have had to play on odd weeks when we could get access to Freyberg Pool. Even so, after a slow start to the season, both teams have done well. In our games, we have shown great enthusiasm and the newer

In the third term, we transferred from the Freyberg Pool to the Boys' Institute Pool. At the same time exams and other pressures made it necessary to merge the two teams into one. Although it was not the strongest team we could have fielded, the fact that in several games we scored 11 goals in two consecutive matches, indicates that it surpassed all other teams, at that time, in strength!

Both teams displayed good team spirit both in the pool, and when mixing with other players.

On behalf of the 'B' Team, I wish to thank P. Stace and D. Selley for their regular support.

C. Savage

Senior Volleyball Team

Volleyball

Volleyball has made steady progress this year. We envisage a big upsurge in numbers on the completion of the new sports complex next year.

The senior team has had a successful year in 1983. In its inter-college fixtures the team played New Plymouth Boys' High School at the Chinese Stadium. In a close game Wellington College managed to keep the upper hand to come out a winner by three sets to one.

The team travelled to Blenheim to play Marlborough Boys' College. Here the tables were reversed and Wellington College lost in a very close five-setter. To be successful a team must learn to cope with different conditions such as travelling and billeting. This trip hopefully provided valuable experience in this regard.

During the second term, the senior team competed in the A grade of the local competition. It qualified to play in the final, but unfortunately was beaten in a close game.

The junior team also travelled to Blenheim and proved much too strong for Marlborough Boys' College, easily winning the three sets. The team is at present playing summer league and competing with a reasonable amount of success.

It is hoped that the junior players will keep up their enthusiasm for the game as they will be the senior players of the next few years.

Water Polo Teams

Water Polo

Team: B. Bamber, A. Salek, C. Kyle, M. Allingham, S. Holden, A. Bush, M. Gibson, P. Larsen, S. Taylor, R. Karau, P. Martin.

This year's team wasn't as strong as in previous years, but was quite adequate and mainly made up of the younger members. The team started the year with great potential, but owing to a number of defections from the senior team, we didn't finish in quite the position we would have liked. Fourth place was good considering the position we were in at the beginning of the year.

Some exciting games were played and credit must go to S. Allingham, P. Martin and P. Larsen who helped out on a number of occasions from the junior team. This inspired the rest of the team.

If the junior team is anything to go by, then waterpolo in the school should have a long future. Special thanks to our faithful coach. Mr Allen, and that faithful father, Mr Allingham, whose services were greatly appreciated.