JULY 2010

Rugby – Southern Skies Tournament – Brisbane – Steve Marshall reports

During the July holidays I had the privilege of taking 22 rugby players from our college to Brisbane to compete in the Southern Skies Tournament.

The boys played four games the first two days, had a rest day (at Dreamworld), then three more games over the last two days. On grounds that were like concrete, in temperatures that were more like our summer temperatures and against teams that play at the highest level in their regions, our team found it hard going but certainly didn't disgrace themselves. Three boys in particular need to be acknowledged for making the All Stars Tournament team:

Jack Staniland, Beau Wedlock and Pierre van Heerden

The evening entertainment was well organised with cultural concerts, a dance party, shopping and sightseeing.

Throughout the entire week the boys were great ambassadors for our school (and in fact New Zealand) and should be proud of the way they conducted themselves. As mentioned above it really was a privilege to take the team to the tournament.

Tennis

Congratulations to the following students who took part in competitions during the recent school holidays:

Olivia Wells

Manawatu Tennis Junior Open – 4^th 16 and Under girls singles

Madison Goldsworthy

Hutt Valley Junior Winter Tournament – Runner-up 14 and Under Girls Singles Consolation and semi-finalist in doubles

Zac Whaanga

Paraparaumu College Inline Hockey 2010  -  Team Manager’s report by Debbie Joyce

For the fourth consecutive year the College sent a team to the NZ National Secondary School Inline Hockey Champs. Hosted by New Plymouth Boys High School, the event was held at the Ravens Inline Hockey Club’s rink at East End, New Plymouth over the weekend July 3-5 2010. The team comprised:

Carl Joyce (Capt), Todd Moore-Jones, Ryan Galland, Cameron Speirs, Freya Try (Goalie), Robert Hockey, Lucy Nelson

Typically an inline hockey side has a minimum of 9 players (2 lines of 4 players plus a goalie) so we knew that with such a small team we would always struggle against the large strong teams fielded by some colleges. This proved to be the case, made even harder by an injury to one of our players and a broken wheel to another player’s skate midway through the game against the top team from Keri Keri High School (defending champions).

The team finished 6^th overall (in 2009 we were 4^th which was our best ever placing). Despite the slide in the standings the team thoroughly enjoyed the three hard days of solid games. Paradoxically the team’s two best performances (one draw and one narrow loss) were against the teams which, respectively, placed third and first overall.

The team enjoyed huge parental support and socially the trip was highly successful. This may have been the last time the College fields a team in the Championship Division as owing to diminishing player numbers we may need to combine with another college next year and compete in the Combined Teams Division.

Total games played: 10 (Won 2, Drew 1, Lost  7)

Individual Successes

The following Paraparaumu College students from the “Kapiti Rangers” (Kapiti Inline Hockey Club), have been selected for Lower North Island rep teams to compete at the 2010 NZ Interregional Championships in New Plymouth at Labour Weekend.

Todd Moore-Jones    Under 18s - goalie

Carl Joyce               Under 16s

Ryan Galland           Under 16s

Freya Try                 Junior Women - goalie        

Lucy Nelson             Junior Women

Karting

Congratulations to Sam Sarcich who took part in the NZ National Schools Karting Championships during the holidays:

2^nd Place – Senior Yamaha Light

5^th – Rotax Light

This was Sam’s first foray into the Rotax Light class and he was also in a cart he had never driven before.  

Regan Hooper made a DVD of Sam for a DVD Documentary competition in association with Kartsport New Zealand, winning $100 for himself and $500 for the school.

Judo

The New Zealand Secondary Schools Judo tournament took place on the last weekend of the July school holidays with Year 9 student, Liam Jones, winning Silver in the U45Kg section.

Air New Zealand CEO for the Day

Congratulations to Year 9 student, Caitlin Shea, who is one of 20 students throughout New Zealand to be picked to be Air New Zealand CEO for the Day. Caitlin is travelling up to Auckland on Tuesday 20th July and we look forward to hearing about her exciting day!

JUNE 2010

Karate

Congratulations to Barney Gill who recently competed in the New Zealand Regional Karate Championships with the following results:

15+ Boys Kumite – 1^st

15+ Boys Kata – 1^st

14+ Mixed Open Kata – 2^nd

Badminton

A group of students took part in the CSW Individual Championships held in Wellington at the end of June:

Beau Clouston, Liam Hardie-Sander, Donella Manson, Zac Millar, Jacob Morgon, Rina Parkin, Emily Sutton and Amelia Vinnell

Beau and Liam were Senior Boys Doubles Runnes up with Jacob making it through to the semi-finals and Zac the quarter-finals in the Senior Boys Singles.

Rina and Donella made the semi-finals in the Women’s Doubles competition with Emily and Amelia making the semi-finals in the Doubles Plate competition

Congratulations to all students involved.

Rugby League

Good luck to Jonty Clark, who has been selected to the U16 NZ Rugby League which heads over to Sydney on 1st July to compete in a U16 Rugby League tournament.

Wrestling

Congratulations to former student, Sian Law, who is the first woman to be sent to the Commonwealth Games as the women’s freestyle discipline makes it debut at Delhi 2010.

NZSS Cross Country

Results of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Cross Country held at Waikanae on 19^th June 2010:

AWD Female – 2000M

1^st – Janie Martin – 13:06

AWD Male – 2000M

4^th – Paul Ashton – 11:13

7^th – Nathan Martin – 12:27

8^th – Matt Dillon – 12:32

YEAR 9 Girls 3000M

56^th – Jessica Jenkins – 12:24

Junior Boys 4000M

60^th – Connor Plumley – 15:19

Senior Boys 6000M