Term 2 Sport Wrap-Up

Tuesday, 24th June 2025 at 12:45pm

Term 2 Sport Wrap-Up

As the term comes to a close, we celebrate a fantastic start to the winter sports season. Our students embraced every challenge the weather and competition threw at them, showing incredible resilience, sportsmanship, and determination. Whether it was early morning practices, tough matches, or cheering each other on from the sidelines, the spirit of our school shone through.

Across netball, football, basketball, rugby, hockey, table tennis and badminton, we have close to 40 teams competing this winter season. We’ve also had a lot of students competing in cross country, orienteering, mountain biking, fencing, swimming, and squash events throughout the term.

This term has been packed with exciting sporting moments and standout performances across our sports. To name a few:

• Our football first XI girls had a thrilling match against St Cuth’s, where Skyla Judd scored the winning goal in the final minute, breaking a nil-all deadlock.
• An amazing game was played by our football first XI boys against Western Springs where a red card 3 minutes into the game left us with 10 on the pitch, and we still came away with the win. Senior netball played through a severe weather and thunderstorm warning one week, with players battling pond-like court conditions and bringing home some great wins.
• The First XV rugby boys thrashed Liston College 46-nil in their first game of the season on home turf.
• Our top six squash players came first place for their division in the Auckland Team Champs event.
• Isaac Gear brought home four medals at the latest swimming champs event; one gold, two silver and one bronze.
• Aidan Barrett-Hamilton placed 1st in the Auckland Rogaine Orienteering Champs in his age group.
• Our fencing team kept their title of being the top fencing north secondary school team for the fourth year running.
• And a big props to our sports council for their time and effort put into running a school pickleball tournament which has seen great turn outs each week.

These highlights don’t capture all of the student success we’ve had in sport this term, with countless examples of perseverance, teamwork, and personal bests happening across all sports. From memorable victories to lessons learned, it’s been a season of growth and great moments, we look forward to seeing what next term brings.