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14/3/2016

Regional Athletics Records - Wellington

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Some amazing records ... by some amazing athletes. Victor Vito (Scots) and Nelson Asofa Solomona (Wellington College) pictured, are two of many cross code athletes that have left their mark on this great event. Wellington students will have their chance to break a few on 16th March at Newtown Park.

100m
Junior Girls     S Harrison      12.70s            Naenae                      1978
Junior Boys    F Tau                11.84s            St Patrick's Town      2012
Int. Girls          S Gray             12.48s            Naenae                      1988
Int. Boys         D Falealili        10.97s            Scots                           1998
Senior Girls    K Freakley      11.80s            Naenae                        1978
Senior Boys    D McDonald   11.03s            Scots                           1994

200m
Junior Girls     H Rhoades      26.24s           Hutt Valley High         1993
Junior Boys    N Smith          24.04s             Hutt Valley High          2013
Int. Girls          K Wilson         25.52s            Hutt Valley High          1988
Int. Boys         D Falealili       22.24s             Scots                             1998
Senior Girls    J Coulter         25.10s             Marsden Collegiate    1986
Senior Boys    M Coad           22.04s            St Patrick's Town        1993

300m
Junior Girls     C O’Callaghan43.15s            Wellington East         2007
Junior Boys    F Tau                38.16s            St Patrick's Town      2012

400m
Int. Girls          K Brewer        58.40s            Tawa                            1991
Int. Boys         P Young          50.76s            Wellington College    1992
Senior Girls    K Freakley      57.00s            Naenae                        1977
Senior Boys    A Green          49.00s            Wellington College    1986

800m
Junior Girls     A Roche          2:20.02s         Wellington East         2006
Junior Boys    M Press           2:07:88s         Silverstream              2013
Int. Girls          A McKenzie    2:13.30s         Hutt Valley High        1980
Int. Boys         J Ledger           1:57.85s         Hutt International     2013
Senior Girls    H Garrett        2:11.80s         Upper Hutt                 1987
Senior Boys    K McDonald   1:55.46s         Scots                            2011
 
1500m
Senior Girls    A Stuart          4:31.30s         Aotea                          1986
Senior Boys    A Leslie           3:58.30s         Tawa                           1977
Junior Girls     K Rae  4:50.40s         Wellington East                     2015
Junior Boys    N Pointon       4.29.28s         Scots                           2010
Int. Girls          A Phipps         4:41.90s         Wellington East        1984
Int. Boys         N Barrett        4:03.63s         Scots                           2008
 
3000m
Int. Girls          A Gilchrist      10:30.85s       Onslow                      2014
Int. Boys         N Bingham     9:14.91s         Scots                          2008
Junior Girls     P McKnight    10:20.77s       Hutt Valley High       2015
Senior Girls    M Cleland       9:55.57s         Chilton St James      2007
Senior Boys    H Carson        8:47.61s         Kapiti                         2006
 
4x100m Relay         
Junior Girls                 53.10s            Wellington East         1980
Junior Boys                46.95s            St Patrick's Town        2012
Int. Girls                      51.50s            Paraparaumu            1980
Int. Boys                     44.60s            St Patrick's Town        2014
Senior Girls                49.70s            Wellington Girls'        1983
Senior Boys                43.63s            Wellington College    2007
 
Discus
Int. Boys         N Asofa-Solomona     54.80m           Wellington College    2011
Int. Girls          L Lealai-Solonoa        45.28m           St Mary's Wellington 2009
Junior Boys    W Rivers                      49.00m           Tawa                             1992
Junior Girls     J Akavi                         33.20m           Bishop Viard                2009
Senior Boys    S Sola                          54.48m           Rongotai                      1996
Senior Girls    L Lealai-Salanoa        47.98m           Porirua                         2011

High Jump
Int. Boys         J Roderique                1.90m              Onslow                  2009
Int. Girls          K O’Hagan                 1.72m              Otaki                       2009
Junior Boys    H Walker-Tepania     1.80m              Aotea                      2008
Junior Girls     L Garner                    1.60m              Chilton St James    2010
Senior Boys    T Vodanovich            1.98m             St Patrick's Town    2012
Senior Girls    P Edwards                  1.72m            Wellington East       2015
 
Javelin
Int. Boys         A Stowers       56.36m           Silverstream        1990
Int. Girls          E Fulbrook     41.07m           Marsden               2013
Junior Boys    C Richard       43.68m           Bishop Viard         1987
Junior Girls     J Beyler           31.88m           Wellington Girls'  1987
Senior Boys    A Stowers       64.62m           Silverstream         1992
Senior Girls    S Samau         27.73m           Wainuiomata        2015
 
Long Jump
           
Int. Boys         J Hutchens                6.57m Scots               2008
Int. Girls          H McEwan                5.58m Marsden         2002
Junior Boys    M Walker-Tepania    5.97m Aotea              2007
Junior Girls     E Eastgate                 5.19m Onslow           2008
Senior Boys    T Langdon                6.60m Parkway         1977
Senior Girls    N Smith                     5.63m Wainuiomata 1994
 
Shot Put        
Int. Boys         V Vito               16.02m          Scots                             2003
Int. Girls          T Onesemo     12.81m         St Mary's Wellington  2014
Junior Boys    T Waldrom     14.59m           Silverstream                1997
Junior Girls     R Toimata       11.47m           Wellington Girls'        2014
Senior Boys    B Power          18.32m           Hutt International     2015
Senior Girls    D Oloapu        14.32m           Naenae                       2015
 
Triple Jump
Int. Boys         R Aphane       13.41m             Scots                            2006
Int. Girls          A Thomson     11.18m           Aotea                           2011
Junior Boys    S Paese           11.90m             St Patrick's Town       2012
Junior Girls     K Rybinski      10.40m             Wellington East         2009
Senior Boys    V Poutawera  13.69m            Newlands                   1993
Senior Girls    A Thomson     11.83m           Aotea College             2013

12/3/2016

Giant Throws, Scott Gregory

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Scott Gregory was ten years old when he enjoyed golden success at the Colgate games. He attended as a sprinter and won the 100/200m double as well as the long jump.

A chance meeting with Valerie Adams soon changed his direction in athletics.

“I remember meeting her and being awestruck. She was so big! I looked up and had a headache! She was really nice. She called me ‘cowboy’ because I had a silly cowboy hat on,” Gregory recalls.

Sprinting was soon aborted and throwing became the primary focus. Gregory was already throwing the discus, but not with much intent.

Last Saturday at the National Athletics Championships in Dunedin, Gregory won six medals, including four gold medals in throwing events.

The Year 13 at Whangarei Boys’ High School swept the under-18 discus, shot put and hammer and also won the under-20 hammer and collected silver in the discus and bronze in the shot put.

Gregory’s specialist event is the hammer throw. He took it up three years ago on the advice of his coach. In 2014 he broke the intermediate record at the National Secondary Schools Championships and on Saturday won both the under-18 and 20 National titles by more than five-meters.

“The hammer is quite a technical event. It’s harder to control and requires a lot of precision and concentration. I enjoy that challenge.” Gregory says.

Matthew Bloxham is a two-times National open champion. The North Harbour athlete, only a few years Gregory’s senior, has a personal best of 79.74m with a 5kg hammer. Gregory’s best is around 71m. Can Gregory eventually catch Bloxham?

“79 is a big throw, but I think I can do it. There are a lot of things in my technique that need improving and I will get stronger,” Gregory insists.

Work ethic and passion are not in question. Gregory says the most satisfying victory of the four achieved last weekend happened in the under-18 shot put.

“I threw 18.26m which put me in the lead for a while until Ryan Ballantyne threw a 18.99m. My personal best prior to the weekend had been 18.50m. The great thing about the shot put and the discus is that sometimes you can just let it all hang out. On my last throw I got 19.01m. I was bloody thrilled,” Gregory explains.

Ballantyne won the under-20 title throwing a 6kg shot.

In the winter Gregory is determined to make another decent fist of rugby. The first-five/second-five made the First XV last year and cracked the Blues Under-17′s. He is hungry for more success.
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“I really enjoyed rugby last year. It’s a big year for the First XV playing in the North Harbour comp. It will be a big step up in terms of competition. I hope we will get more exposure playing on the North Shore. We lose a lot of players to Auckland. Hopefully playing in North Harbour will encourage more to stay.”

7/3/2016

National Athletics in Dunedin - Gallery

National Athletics Championships were held in Dunedin, with a large number of U18 College athletes competing. Thanks to John Caswell for these images ... plenty more from the event via the link below.
John Caswell Images

2/3/2016 Comments

​Felix Williamson: Small man, big strides

PictureFelix Williamson - Wellington College
One of the smallest athletes at the 2016 McEvedy Shield was one of its biggest stars.

Wellington College has retained the McEvedy Shield – winning the famous regional athletics title that also involves Rongotai College, St Pat’s Town and St Pat’s Silverstream for the 50th time.

Year 9 runner Felix Williamson enjoyed runaway wins in both his events, the U14 3000m and the U14 1500m.

He 3000m win was in the very first event of the day, before the majority of Wellington College’s supporters had even arrived at Newtown Park, while his 1500m win later in the day was probably the win that sealed overall victory for his school and was achieved with hundreds of school mates cheering him on in the stand.

The meeting is based on points accrued from each event. A win is worth four points, a second place three points, a third two points and a fourth one point. Wellington College finished with 221 points, ahead of St Pat’s Town on 159 points, St Pat’s Silverstream on 112 and Rongotai on 56.

Felix was pleased with his wins, citing his first as his favourite event of the two. “I prefer the 3000m, I’m more of a longer distance runner than a shorter distance one,” he said.

“Coming into today I thought I was going to do quite well in the 3000m, I wasn’t quite so sure about the 1500m. It’s also quite tiring doing two races that are both long distance.”

Felix said he’s more of a cross country runner than a track one. “I have done a lot of track, but my main area is cross country – I started that in Year 4 and I haven’t really stopped since.”

He plans on taking this year off, however. “I have got a problem with my heels and I just need to give them a rest.”

Felix has Sever’s Disease, or calcaneal apophysitis, which translates as inflammation of the growth plate in the heel. The condition is self-limiting – rest is the best treatment.

But first he’s tackling this weekend’s famous Karapoti Classic mountain bike race near Upper Hutt. “That’s just for fun. I did it two years ago, but didn’t do the full 50km race only the shorter 20km one.”

He lives in Maungaraki in Lower Hutt and has the nearby western hills as his training ground.  As well as running and mountain biking, Felix also plays football.
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He’ll take the rest of this year off to manage hi heel - but he hopes to be back competing at next year’s McEvedy Shield. 

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1/3/2016 Comments

Onehunga High School all-rounder Alex Hyland enjoying athletics success

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Last weekend at Cooks Gardens in Wanganui, Onehunga High School’s Alex Hyland won the New Zealand Youth Women’s Heptathlon title at the New Zealand Combined Events Championships.

Alex finished second behind a visiting Australian athlete but first among 10 New Zealanders who were competing for the multi-discipline national title. View the results here 

At the same meeting, 2015 Wellington East Girls’ College school-leaver Phoebe Edwards won the New Zealand Junior Women’s Heptathlon title and 2015 Mairehau High School (Christchurch) school-leaver Alex Mander won the New Zealand Junior Men’s Decathlon title.   

Youth women’s Heptathlon winner Alex Hyland, was the 2014 NZSS Junior Girls’ High Jump champion and last December at the secondary school nationals in Timaru she finished second in the Senior Girls’ High Jump to High Jump and Long Jump winner Briana Stephenson from Napier Girls’ HS. Alex also finished fourth in the Senior Girls’ 100m hurdles final.

College Sport Media caught up with Alex about her sport and what’s coming up in 2016.
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Congratulations on the win last weekend. Were you working towards this as a goal over summer?
 
Winning is always the goal but I had set targets for each event that I was working to meet and a set overall points goal which I achieved. Mostly you’re just trying to do the best you can and gain personal bests.
 
Had you previously competed in many heptathlons?
 
I had competed in two heptathlons previously for the North Island championships but only as an Under 16, which means I was only running 80m hurdles as you don’t move to the 100m until you’re under 18. So this was my first proper heptathlon and first Combined Events Nationals.
 
What is the format of heptathlons?
 
Heptathlons are what the women compete in and it is a two day competition consisting of seven track and field events, 100m Hurdles, High Jump, Shot Put, 200m sprint, Long Jump, Javelin and 800m run. For the men it’s different, they compete in the Decathlon which is ten events over two days.
 
What events did you do well in over the weekend?
 
My strongest events are the Hurdles and the High Jump, which score you big points and helps. But the highlight was getting a PB in the Long Jump and finishing my first proper heptathlon.
 
What’s coming up over the remainder of this year? What are your goals throughout 2016 and beyond?
 
I’ve got New Zealand Athletics Nationals in Dunedin in just over a week where I’ll be competing in the High Jump, Hurdles and 200m, and then after that the school competitions will start. I will continue to train for the Heptathlon over the winter but there are very few Heptathlon competitions in NZ. I will also be working towards my last school Athletics Nationals where I’ll be competing in the High Jump and Hurdles and possibly the 200m because they don’t offer Heptathlon at school nationals. I will also be starting to figure out what I’ll be doing next year after school and where I’ll be going in athletics.
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How did you get into Heptathlon? Have you been doing athletics since you were young?
 
My coach, Brent Booker, used to be a Decathlete and is very keen on getting all the athletes he trains and who are willing into combined events, which is how I started. I’ve also been doing athletics for a long time, joining my first athletics club when I was three and I started competing when I was seven at the junior athletics competitions in Auckland.  
 
At present, how often are you training and how much is fitness based and how much skills/technique focused? Have you had any injury setbacks?
 
At the moment I train 2-3 times a week depending on what competitions are coming up. Mostly training is more focused on skills and technique as I have a reasonably good fitness base due to me riding my bike to school and playing other sports. As of now I am in good shape but I was injured this time last year with a hip strain which really affected my performance. It was also really annoying because it came about during one of the busiest times in the season.
 
Home country UK athlete Jessica Ennis was one of the stars of the 2012 London Olympics, winning Heptathlon gold – do you follow her achievements?
 
I do really enjoy watching Jessica Ennis compete, she isn’t very tall but she is incredibly strong and passionate about her sport. I also really enjoy watching Ashton Eaton, the Men's Decathlon world champion. I really admire their strength and passion when they compete.
 
Do you play other sports?
 
In the winter I play football for my school’s First XI team.

What are you doing academically at school and do you know what you’ll be doing next year?
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I take Calculus, Biology, History, Photography and PE and am currently working towards NCEA L3. I’m not really sure of what I’m doing next year which is why I’m taking such a broad range of subjects.
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