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Sports at Motueka High School

2010 Sports Captains

Fergus Tonkin and Edee Harris are the Sports Captains for 2010.

2009 House Sports

HOUSE SPORTS

The 2009 House Sports were held on Friday the 13 February. Black Friday it may have been but while the weather was atrocious on Thursday the day dawned fine on Friday and the cloud cover created near perfect conditions for the activities.

The day began as usual with the house parades and the judging panel was joined by Gary Alsop from Sport Tasman. The themes each house had chosen for their parades were excellent and ranged from red house and their fire engine and “stop drop and roll” chant to Blue house with their Highlanders including a miniature horse. The trend of bribing the judges continued with a plethora of cakes of all shapes, sizes and colours. In the end Blue House with their organisation and team unity took out the points in this colourful event.

Competition started straight after the parade and the students competed fiercely all morning. Activities in the field were the same as last years, with students heavily involved at the ever popular slippery slide, which also became a good place to wash off some paint.

After a short lunch break the competition continued at the pool with some new activities. Two new games were introduced that had been created by students during rich learning activities in December 2008.

The first was called the ‘over unders hoop relay’ where students had to swim across the pool and come up through and down through hoops on the waters surface before passing the baton to their team mates. This proved to be challenging, especially if the baton was dropped in the deep end, and entertaining.

The second activity was called ‘basket-pool’. Here students jumped off the starting blocks, caught a ball passed to them from the poolside, and dunked it into a ‘hoop’ on the waters surface. Each team had 5 minutes to see how many ‘dunks’ they could get in that time. This proved very entertaining with the Kowhai girls showing up all other team by scoring an amazing 107 dunks in 5 minutes.

The house sports competition had an added incentive this year with a new cup up for grabs for the winning house. Once again the Day was excellent. It is a credit to our students that they compete intensely, support their peers and behave in a respectful and sportsmanlike manner.

At the end of the day, Kowhai house performed with distinction, winning a number of the field events and establishing a good lead on the others to take out the house sports cup for the first time.

I would like to congratulate everyone and thank all the staff who supported, encouraged and organised their students all day and the house captains who did a superb job of organising and leading their groups.

Results:
Kowhai 146
Red 123
Green 107
Blue 101

Squash

Squash coaching and play. Terms 2 and 3. Fridays 3.30-5.30pm. Rackets supplied. Bring clean, non-marking shoes. Huia Rugby carpark, behind Whitwells Menswear.

Term1 Report

Welcome back to another sporting programme for 2009. I hope everyone had a healthy and relaxing holiday and are ready to do battle against our opposing schools.

This year our major focus will be securing the shield in our 50th anniversary of the Lincoln High School Sports Exchange which will take place in August here at Motueka High School. Winter codes get ready for battle!!

Our 2008 Senior Mixed Touch Team was placed 7th at Nationals last December and our three athletes that competed at Nationals also in December were all placed. A full report of this is in the Insight.

The year has begun with a flurry with the School Swimming sports being held and our school Gillette Cup cricket team playing a lead up game against Nayland College. Events taking place to the end of March are: House Sports day, Tennis, Touch, Mountain Biking, Triathlon and Athletics. Towards the end of March we will be holding our Sports Registration Night – date TBC. All those who attend and pay their fees on the night go in the draw to have half their subs paid as well as a sport prize.

WANTED Coaches/Managers/Officials If you would like to do either of these duties for any particular sporting code please contact Adrienne Fry (Sports Coordinator) at school on 03 528 9050 or email me at afry@motuekahigh.school.nz. We would love to have you on board. There are coaching clinics available to attend at no cost. Thank you to Mr Michael Brewer for coming forward to coach our Senior Girls Volleyball team for 2009. Thank you also to all Staff who have put themselves forward to be Teacher-in-Charge of various sports.

Congratulations to our Sports Captains for 2009. They are Jessica Drummond and Andrew Beatson. I know these students are passionate about sport and will do an excellent job.

To all sporting students, I wish you all the best for an exciting year of competitive and recreation sport. Give it heaps and GET INVOLVED!

2009 Swimming Sports

This year the Motueka High School Swimming Sports were held very early on in the year in order to avoid clashes with Naqtional Swimming Championships. 9 February was again another blistering hot day and a keen group of 45 students swam their hardest from 11.30 until 2pm.

Ryan Cheyne of year 11, competing for the first time, was the stand-out performer on the day as he broke 6 records from the 8 events he entered. Max Gessler continued on with his record breaking form of last year to claim another 2 records in the O16 boys.

The day was hot, the pool was tropical, there was a very good atmosphere at the pool and there was also some close racing, particularly in the O16 Girls and Boys.

Thanks have to go to the timers who did a superb job under extremely hot and tiring conditions. Their efforts helped to make the event flow smoothly and meant that we got through the timetabled events in record time.

For results and photos, have a look at our Term 1 'Insight'.

Athletics Sports 2009

On Thursday 26th February the Motueka High School Athletic Sports were held. Whilst areas around Motueka had experienced some heavy rain in the early hours of the morning, the track was dry and in superb condition. Entries this year equalled the record of 517 students set last year, proving that the vertical forms are having a superb effect on the house spirit and therefore participation in house events. It is certainly very pleasing to see such a high level of interest and participation in this annual event.

The day was a very successful one even if there were a few a few grey hairs added to the organisers as the dark clouds gathered over Brown Acre. Fortunately the wind changed, lunch was rescheduled and the events were completed on time and the day ended with huge support for runners in the inter house relays.

There were a number of excellent performances on the track and in the field. Missy Semour continued her fine form by smashing her own senior girls discus record by 5 metres. Ziggy Jefferies broke the U14 Boys High Jump and Shot Put record and Liam Reid broke the U14Boys 100m record that has stood since 1997.

The event staff did a superb job with very little rest as the impending bad weather meant we pushed on through the scheduled lunch break. However, they were kept well fed and watered with chocolate brownie coffee and juice.

An event of this size certainly takes a lot of organisation, both prior to and during the sports. I would like to take the opportunity to thank the Phys Ed Department and all the staff at school that contributed to making this day a very successful one.

The house competition was again a close one with just one percent separating Red and Yellow in the participation points. However, the tables were turned in the performance stakes with Yellow proving they have a fine group of athletes.

New records

U14B
Liam Reid, 100m - 12.80
Ziggy Jefferies High Jump, 1.51m
Shot Put, 10.39

U19G
Missy Seymour, Discus - 39.06m

CHAMPS 2009

U 14 Girls Tamara Silcock
Runner-Up Keilamarita Pouri-Lane

U14 Boys Liam Reid
Runner-up Ziggy Jefferies

U15 Girls Brooke Scott
Runner-Up Nicole Inwood & Katie Silcock

U15 Boys William Yeow
Runner-Up Joseph Wynands

U16 Girls Tessa Silcock
Runner-Up Sharmah Moaho

U16 Boys Layton Winitana,Cyrus Henry &
Jayden Peek

U19 Girls Jessica Drummond
Runner-Up Hana Cumming

U19 Boys Dillon Anderson
Runner-Up Brock Noble

HOUSE POINTS

Athletic performance
BLUE GREEN RED KOWHAI
782 738 881 965

Athletics Participation
BLUE GREEN RED KOWHAI
62% 59% 70% 69%

Tournament Week 2008

Our U15 rugby team won Division C in the rugby tournament last week. Congratulations to all the players.

Our Netball A team were placed 3rd in the South Island Netball Tournament in Dunedin last week. They will now compete at the Nationals in the second week of the school holidays. Congratulations girls.

GOLF

The Motueka High School Number 1 Golf Team won the 36 Hole Nett Championship at the Nelson/Marlborough Secondary School Championships held at Greenacres. The team had a comfortable lead after the morning round and played steadily in the afternoon round to ensure their victory. Playing conditions were extremely challenging in the second round with steady rain - the team stayed focused right to the end.

Outstanding performances came from Levi Kearns who finished runner-up in the Individual Gross and Todd Hamilton who was runner-up in the Individual Nett.

Motueka High School also had a second team in the 36 hole championship.

Photo Names:
Back - Levi Kearns, Tyler Cederman
Front - Andy Tasker, Todd Hamilton

Cross Country

The ‘A’ course ran as per usual to test the championship runners and they certainly got a little more that they expected, with a couple of Clydesdale horses on the course creating added obstacles. Tessa Silcock proved that last year’s effort was no fluke by taking out the overall title for the girls while she is still a junior. Fastest on the day was Kurt Bolton in 26.38, although rumour has it there may have been a staff member who took line honours. Well done Jake Stow.

Thanks heaps to the house captains for their organisation of their houses and to all the staff who counted heads and laps and ensured the event ran smoothly.

Champions:
Tessa Silcock, Junior Girls; Layton Winitana, Junior Boys; Jess Drummond, Zoe Morris-Trainor, Hana Cumming 1st= Intermediate Girls; Dylan Anderson, Intermediate Boys, Shannon Francois, Senior Girls; Kurt Bolton, Senior Boys.

House Points:
Blue 1st 474 points, Red 2nd 473 points, Kowhai 3rd 467 points, Green 4th 364 points.

Shannon Francois

New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Athletics National Competitions:
• 2004 1st in 100m, 1st in Long Jump, 2nd in Triple Jump
• 2005 1st in Javelin, 1st in Long Jump
• 2005 6th in Long Jump at Australian Youth Olympics, Sydney

New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Netball Development Squad:
• 2006 Qualified for Development Squad
• 2007 Attended NZSS Netball Trials
• 2007 Member SISS Netball Team

New Zealand Touch:
• 2006 NZ Academy Squad
• 2007 NZ Academy Squad
• 2007 Under 19 NZ Touch Squad

MHS NETBALL A TEAM

Our Netball A team continued their good form taking 1st place in the Premier 2 Division of the Nelson Netball competition and were placed 9th in the NZ Top 12 Secondary Schools competition in Auckland during the July holidays.