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28/2/2016 Comments

Max Press – Pressing On

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Max Press was a competitive swimmer but that purist was aborted recently in favour of athletics.

Nationally the Year 13 at St. Patrick’s College, Silverstream has run the second fastest time in the under-18 800m this year.

Two weeks ago at the Old Boys’ Cup he run a personal best and school record time of 1:56.09. Is the relative novice a National title contender?

“I would like to think so, but it’s hard to gauge where I am at. Though I have run the second fastest time this year there are people in my age group who have run quicker times than me,” Press admits.
Running quick at the McEvedy Shield on Tuesday is the immediate concern of Press. Silverstream was comprehensively beaten by Catholic rivals St Pats Town in the Old Boys’ Cup. However Press completed the 800/1500m double for the second time and is hopeful that Silverstream can put up a stern fight.

“We actually led at lunch time and you never know what can happen. Town have been strong at McEvedy and we showed we can compete with them.”

Flourishing at McEvedy has never been a problem for Press. In Year 10 he won the 800/1500m double as well as the javelin. Last year he won the 800/1500m double, but athletics hasn’t been without its challenges. In Year 11 Press suffered a serious stress fracture on the shin which forced him out of  competition for a year.

“I was swimming at that time and came back from a met feeling real fit. I over extended myself running and injured my shin,” Press recalls.

“The hardest thing about being injured was watching others improve and having to start from scratch and build up my strength and endurance again.”
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A week after McEvedy Press will compete at the Club Nationals. He is well and truly back.

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25/2/2016 Comments

Rathkeale College Athletics Soaring

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Rathkeale College has fashioned a fine record in athletics recently. Sprinter Jonty Morrison represented New Zealand in 2015 and that same year broke three long-standing records at the college athletics day, the oldest of which dated back to 1973.

Middle distance runner Max Spencer and the versatile Gerard Hickey are also making a name for themselves. Both boys have been selected to compete for New Zealand at the Oceania Regional Championships in Tahiti in April.

Spencer had a history of competing in cross county and triathlon, but decided to take up track running after an encouraging display at his first National Championships.
“I was quite competitive. I finished ninth  in the 1500m and was encouraged by John Quinn to continue,” Spencer recalls.

Last year Spencer won a silver medal at the National Championships in Timaru in the intermediate 1500m. He ran a personal best time but finished well-behind a formidable rival, Isaiah Priddey from Hamilton Boys’ High School.

“Priddey was the fastest runner at the whole meet. He is phenomenal and beat me by ten seconds. I am clueless as to how I will make that up, but I am working hard,” Spencer concedes (below).


Spencer is training five days a week and ran strongly at the recent Porritt Classic. He has been selected as a 5000m reserve and relay runner for Tahiti as well. Are those events possibilities to specialise in later?
“Not in the immediate future, but I am happy to run anything for New Zealand. I have been improving a lot in the 1500m and will continue to work hard.”

In 2015 Gerard Hickey was named the Wairarapa Junior Sportsman of the year. He competed in three events at the North Island secondary school championships, placing second in the junior high jump and fourth in the junior 1500m.

Hickey has been selected for the 400m, 800m, and high jump. He says he is honoured to represent his country especially after a long struggle with injury.

“I have had problems with plates in my lower back. This means I have spent more time on running this season as jumping applies more strain”.

Hickey has improved his running time by a few seconds and became strong in the 800m.
“I enjoy all disciplines, but running has been the focus lately.”
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Hickey is coached by Nick Julian and John Quinn.


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13/2/2016 Comments

 College athletes shine at Porritt Classic athletics meeting

Lucy Sheat takes 0.28 from her PB winning women's 200m at #Porritt16 in 24.03

A video posted by Athletics New Zealand (@athleticsnz) on Feb 12, 2016 at 7:10pm PST

Commonwealth Youth Games representative Lucy Sheat (Marlborough Girls’ College) ran a lifetime best of 24.03 in taking victory in a quality women’s 200m field today at the Porritt Classic meeting in Hamilton. 

The 16-year-old, who trains on a grass track in her native Blenheim, destroyed her previous best by 0.28 to secure an impressive win – albeit an agonising 0.03 shy of the Athletics New Zealand qualification standard for the World Junior Championships in Poland.

Behind, 17-year-old Olivia Eaton (New Plymouth Girls’ High School) trimmed 0.26 from her lifetime best to record 24.22 while the top three placings were rounded out by a third teenager World Youth Championships, semi-finalist Georgia Hulls (Havelock North High School) in 24.44.

Sheat was elated with a new lifetime best and says of her performance: “Everything is going to plan at the moment. I couldn’t ask for anything more. I didn’t quite get the qualifying for World Juniors which is a bit of a pain (note, she has the 100m qualifier) but there is still time to get that.”

The next stop for Sheat is an outing with a crack New Zealand Junior 4x100m squad in Canberra next week before she competes at the New Zealand Track & Field Championships in Dunedin early next month.   

Earlier in a women's 100m field stocked with great depth, leading teenage talents Georgia Hulls (11.96) and recent New Plymouth Girls High School’s Zoe Hobbs (11.95) also both dipped below 12-seconds to take victory in heats one and two. In the final, Zoe finished third behind two senior athletes, Georgia fourth and Olivia fifth. 

Alisha Gilchrist (Onslow College) won the Girls 1500m Dianne Rodger race in 4:41.61, ahead of Emerson Deverell (Cambridge High School) in second at 4:43.81 and Charli Miller (St Peter’s School) in third at 4:44.69. 

James Uhlenberg (Sacred Heart College, Auckland) won the Boys 1500m Dick Quax race in 3.57.99, beating Theo Quax (Maclean’s College) in to second with 3.58.48 and Christian Condor (Wanganui Collegiate) in to third at 3.59.43. 

Local athlete Isaiah Priddey (Hamilton Boys’ High School) easily won the Men’s 1500m run in a time of 3.52.12, 11 seconds faster than the second placed finisher. 

Ryan Ballantyne (St Paul’s College) won the men's shot put, throwing a 6kg weight 17.94m, which was a new personal best. Maddison Wesche (Lynfield College) won the women’s shot put by over seven metres to second place, throwing the 3kg put 16.07m. 

Opetini Dryden (Wanganui Collegiate) hurled the spear 55.20m to take out the boys’ competition in the mixed javelin secondary school event, whilst Caitlin Bonne (St Margret’s College) won the girls javelin in 43.70m. 

Wanganui Collegiate and Auckland's Sacred Heart College won the girls' and boys' Nick Willis relays respectively. 

Special mention to James Preston (Year 13 at Scots College 2015) who shaved 3 seconds off his personal best to win the 800m in 1.48.92 and qualify for the World Junior Championships. 

In another fantastic achievement for a recent school athlete, Hayden Wilde (Year 13 at Trident High School 2015) won the two-day Coast to Coast race today. 
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12/2/2016 Comments

Greater Auckland Schools Athletics Records - Best of all time

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You only get one chance to get your name in the record books at an event like this. Next year you may been too old, have changed schools, or below your best. There are some records here that should be very achievable, yet some are freakish! 

If you are looking at beast mode, you can't go past Jacko Gill. His Intermediate Boys Shot record is 2 meters better than the senior record, with the same weight.

But perhaps the most interesting, is the intermeidate track record for the 400m. Vandermade and Wickes hold the 400m and 200m records respectively... But later in the year Fraser Wickes ran a 47s 400m ... that is 3 seconds faster then the current record. Did he not run the 400m that year? Or was his 400m at Nationals one of those freakish runs!

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9/2/2016 Comments

McEvedy - Athletic Records and Winning Schools Since 1922

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1922   Wellington College
1923   Wellington College
1924   Wellington College
1925   (tie) Wellington College
            & Wairarapa College
1926   Wellington College
1927   Wairarapa College
1928   Wellington College
1929   Wellington College
1930   Wellington College
1931   Wellington College
1932   (tie) Wellington College
            & Hutt Valley High School
1933   Wellington College
1934   St Patrick’s Silverstream
1935   St Patrick’s Silverstream
1936   Wellington College
1937   Wellington College
1938   Wellington College
1939   Wellington College
1940   St Patrick’s Silverstream
1941   Wellington College
1942   Wellington College
1943   St Patrick’s Silverstream

1944   Wellington College
1945   St Patrick’s ToWC
1946   Wellington College
1947   Wellington College
1948   No Meeting
1949   Wellington College
1950   Wellington College
1951   Wellington College
1952   St Patrick’s Town
1953   St Patrick’s Silverstream
1954   Hutt Valley High School
1955   Wellington College
1956   Wellington College
1957   Wellington College
1958   Hutt Valley High School
1959   Wellington College
1960   St Patrick’s Town
1961   Wellington College
1962   St Patrick’s Town
1963   St Patrick’s Town
1964   St Patrick’s Silverstream
1965   Wellington College
1966   Rongotai College
1967   Rongotai College
1968   St Patrick’s Silverstream
1969   St Patrick’s Silverstream
1970   St Patrick’s Silverstream
1971   St Patrick’s Silverstream
1972   St Patrick’s Silverstream
1973   St Patrick’s Silverstream
1974   Rongotai College
1975   Rongotai College
1976   Wellington College
1977   Wellington College
1978   Wellington College
1979   Wellington College
1980   Rongotai College
1981   Rongotai College
1982   St Patrick’s Town
1983   St Patrick’s Town
1984   St Patrick’s Town
1985   Wellington College
1986   St Patrick’s Town
1987   St Patrick’s Town
1988   St Patrick’s Town
1989   Rongotai College
1990   St Patrick’s Town
1991   St Patrick’s Town
1992   St Patrick’s Town
1993   Wellington College
1994   Wellington College
1995   Wellington College
1996   Wellington College
1997   Wellington College
1998   St Patrick’s College
1999   Wellington College
2000   Wellington College
2001   Wellington College
2002   St Patrick’s Silverstream
2003   St Patrick’s Silverstream
2004   Wellington College
2005   Wellington College
2006   Wellington College
2007   Wellington College
2008   St Patrick’s Town
2009   Wellington College
2010   St Patrick’s Town
2011   Wellington College
2012   St Patrick's Town
2013   St Patrick's Town
2014   St Patrick's Town
2015   Wellington College
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​100m 
Open              A Underwood            10.70s            Wellington College    2007
Under 14       F Tau  11.48s            St Patrick's Town      2012
Under 15       M Tau 11.30s            St Patrick's Town      2013
Under 16       J Brooks          11.10s            St Patrick's Town      2007

1500m 
Open             M Karamanolis          4:04.31s         St Patrick's Town      2014
Under 14       S Jessep          4:26.40s         Wellington College    1985
Under 15       M Tannock     4:10.60s         Rongotai         1989
Under 16       M Tannock     4:10.60s         Rongotai         1989

200m 
Open              A Underwood            22.00s            Wellington College    2007
Under 14       F Tau  23.76s            St Patrick's Town      2012
Under 15       S Ford 23.11s            Wellington College    2013
Under 16       N Kalivati       22.50s            Silverstream  2003

3000m
Open             M Karamanolis          8:45.27s         St Patrick's Town      2014
Under 14       D Lynch          9:48.24s         Wellington College    2015
Under 16       S Jessep          9:10.90s         Wellington College    1986

400m 
Open              P Young          49.10s            Wellington College    1993
Under 14       F Greaves       54.21s            Silverstream  2010
Under 15       D Rogan          52.30s            Wellington College    1989
Under 16       P Young          51.00s            Wellington College    1992

800m 
Open              P Young          1:55.20s         Wellington College    1993
Under 14       B Mohamed   2:08.79s         Rongotai         2010
Under 15       C Casey           2:02.00s         Silverstream  2006
Under 16       M Press          1:58.74s         Silverstream  2015

Discus
Open              N Asofa-Solomona     53.60m           Wellington College    2013
Under 14       N Asofa-Solomona     48.27m           Wellington College    2010
Under 15       G Ahnau         47.73m           St Patrick's Town      2014
Under 16       R Tinkle          52.33m           Wellington College    2008

High Jump
Open   T        Vodanovich 1.98m St Patrick's Town      2012
Under 14       A Cartmell-Gollan      1.72m Wellington College    2003
Under 15       I Letoa            1.78m Wellington College    2013
Under 16       C Sculley         1.87m Wellington College    2010

Hurdles
Open             H Tumaalii     14.24s            St Patrick's Town      2002
Open             M Proctor       14.64s            St Patrick's Town      2009
Under 14       T Kelly            11.80s            St Patrick's Town      2003
Under 15       K Mitchell       14.00s            Rongotai         1989
Under 16       N Kalivati       13.50s            Silverstream  2003
Under 16       A Nyel 13.50s            St Patrick's Town      2003

Javelin
Open             L Mahoney     63.48m           Silverstream  1997
Under 14       J Alaimoana    46.32m           St Patrick's Town      1989
Under 15       C Robinson     46.93m           Wellington College    2015
Under 16       L Mahoney     54.05m           Silverstream  1996

Long Jump
Open              S Maitland      7.26m Wellington College    1976
Under 14       N Stirling        5.80m St Patrick's Town      2015
Under 15       J Wright          6.12m St Patrick's Town      1999
Under 16       S Paese           6.45m St Patrick's Town      2014

Relay
Open                          43.30s            Wellington College    2007
Under 14                   48.06s            St Patrick's Town      2012
Under 15                   46.40s            St Patrick's Town      2013
Under 16                   45.00s            Wellington College    2005

Shot Put
Open              D Sanele         16.72m           Wellington College    2005
Under 14       D To'o              14.42m           Rongotai         2012
Under 15       D To'o              14.30m           Rongotai         2013
Under 16       N Asofa-Solomona     15.39m           Wellington College    2012

Triple Jump
Open              R Parkinson   14.00m           Rongotai         1987
Under 14       S Paese           12.39m           St Patrick's Town      2012
Under 15       S Skinnon       12.60m           Wellington College    1991
Under 16       P Fitisemanu  12.95m           St Patrick's Town      1994



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