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Below are selected five Photos of the Week, highlighting some of the terrific secondary school sporting events and achievements over the past seven days. Want to contribute to College Sport Media’s Photos of the Week? We’d love to hear from you and publish your photos. Drop us a message on https://www.facebook.com/collegesportmedia or email us at [email protected] Note: If photos are not taken or by you we need to know their source so we can credit the photographer that took them or where they were first posted  1. Sam Waardenburg (Rangitoto College) and Quinn Clinton (Christchurch BHS) receiving prestigious awards at the NBA Basketball Without Borders Asia camp in Australia last week. Clinton took home the All-Star Game MVP, while Waardenburg claimed MVP of the whole camp. Both will be heading to Division One colleges in the US in 2017. Waardenburg was a National champion at Rangitoto College last season and his team are currently second in the Auckland competition with a 7-1 record. Clinton played for the Canterbury Rams in the NBL Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/TheNBL/?fref=ts  2. Local Premier Youth Grade football rivalry in Upper Hutt north of Wellington resumed on Saturday, between the St Pat’s Silverstream and Hutt International Boys’ School First XIs, resulting in a much-needed 1-0 victory for HIBS. HIBS are mid-table but Silverstream are anchored to the bottom of the Trevor Rigby Cup table after three rounds. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/chainsawphotos/?fref=ts  3. Last week St Hilda's College won the OSSSA Girls U15 Rugby Competition, beating Columba College 25-15 under lights. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/osssa.org.nz/  4. Perry Karati (left) joined captain Cam Russell (Read More about Cam Here ) in reaching the milestone of 50 caps for the Burnside High School First XV on Saturday. Mid-table Burnside missed out 12-15 to Waimea Combined on Saturday and play Timaru BHS in their next match. Photo credit: Natalie Jamieson / https://www.facebook.com/UC-Championship-UC-Cup-1570509296559769/?fref=photo  5. The Westlake Boys’ High School’s Premier Squash team won the College Sport Auckland Championship last week, beating Auckland Grammar School in the final to be crowned champions for the third year in a row. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/WBHSSPORT/?fref=nf
 The New Zealand women’s lacrosse team, the NZBLAX, have recently returned from Melbourne where they won the Footscray Lacrosse International Classic tournament, against Hong Kong, the Footscray Lacrosse Club and a composite USA College team. They also competed in a separate invitational tournament against Australian state teams and England.
Meet Georgia Carter. NZBLAX player and a 2015 Auckland ASB Young Sportsperson of the Year award winner. Georgia, who is Year 13 at Mount Albert Grammar School, is one of a small contingent of secondary school students in the New Zealand NZBLAX squad, including others from Waikato and Auckland. Georgia has been playing lacrosse since she started secondary school. “I started playing in year nine, so I’m now in my fifth season. I started playing at school as it seemed like an interesting sport to play. I didn’t expect much when I first started.” A good decision and one that’s already taken her overseas on several trips with New Zealand U19 and senior teams. “With the New Zealand U19s I went to Australia in 2014 and to Scotland last year for the U19 World Cup in Scotland and we came fifth, which was really good because we were ranked 11th. “Then with the senior women’s team in October we went to California and we played a series against some Division 1 college teams, so that was like a development tour for our squad.” She explained that beating Japan in the U19 World Cup is a career highlight so far. “That was memorable for our whole team, as it meant that we came fifth and that is the best a New Zealand lacrosse team has ever done at a World Cup.” There’s plenty more to look forward to. “We should have another trip to California this coming October and then the World Cup is in England next July, so making that team is a goal.” Women’s Lacrosse is a variant of field hockey, except the ball gets passed through the air and not along the ground. “It’s a full-on, full-paced game and it’s great to play,” said Georgia. “Games are 30 minute halves, with 10 players on each side and 12 when you play internationally.” Georgia plays midfield or attack and said if she has a preference it is for the former as there’s more running and action involved. She said she used to play water polo, but lacrosse is her one fulltime sport now. Her school MAGS competes in the Auckland secondary schools girls’ lacrosse competition. Georgia is captain of her school team for the second successive year. She said her team is going well so far after coming second last year to Epsom Girls’ Grammar School. “We’ve already played EGGS this year and drew with them [6-6], so hopefully we can beat them when we meet again.” She recently stepped off the plane from Melbourne to help MAGS beat Avondale College 16-3, playing her 10th game in the space of a week. The 2016 New Zealand Secondary Schools Lacrosse tournament is in August. Last year MAGS finished fourth, behind winners Cambridge High School, after being runners-up in 2014 and champions in 2013 in Georgia’s first year in the team. Georgia is keeping her options open as to what she is doing next year, but said that winning a lacrosse scholarship to an American university is a possibility. Like travel, we believe that sport changes lives. So, to reward all your hard work and early morning weekend matches, we created the STA Travel Sports Alliance. Completely free for your school to join, we're a grassroots sponsorship program that will reward your team with hundreds of $$ of travel vouchers, just for being an ambassador and getting your friends, family and fans to book with us. Access STA Travel’s exclusive fares and earn rewards for your club! Click HERE to find out more  Below are selected five Photos of the Week, highlighting some of the terrific secondary school sporting events and achievements over the past seven days. Want to contribute to College Sport Media’s Photos of the Week from now on? We’d love to hear from you and publish your photos. Drop us a message on https://www.facebook.com/collegesportmedia or email us at [email protected] Note: If photos are not taken or by you we need to know their source so we can credit the photographer that took them or where they were first posted  1. Hamilton Boys’ High School recently retained their NZSS Wrestling title, with the team winning several medals. These included: Ryan Marshall - gold 69kg Junior; Rickson Hill - gold 85kg Senior; Raymond Hill - silver 69kg Senior; Tama Manuirirangi - silver 63kg Junior; Sebastian Diedricks - bronze 75kg Senior; Simeon Hennebert - bronze 85kg Senior Thomas Sexton - bronze 69kg Junior; Jaden Luppers - bronze 63kg Junior. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/HamiltonBoysHighSchool  2. It’s just over a week until the shortest day of the year, and the winter sports season is getting into full swing. Wednesday night novice Otago Secondary Schools curling is underway. The SISS Curling Championships are in Naseby from 2-4 September, the NISS Curling Championships are in Auckland at the end of August and the NZSS Curling Championships are in Dunedin from 24-26 September. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/osssa.org.nz/  3. The NZSS Secondary Schools Cross Country Championships are being run in Rotorua this coming weekend. Over 340 runners took part at last week’s Waikato/Bay of Plenty Secondary Schools Cross-Country Champs, also in Rotorua. View the results at: http://www.sportwaikato.org.nz/getmedia/c45d1800-1623-4fc3-87b9-05ddb68e7f55/Results-Provisional.pdf.aspx Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/sportwaikatosecondaryschools  4. To raise money for Syrian refugee camps as part of World Vision's 40 hour famine, Nelson College for Girls speed skater Xan Twissell recently skated for 24 hours straight and covered approximately 280 kilometres. She began her long journey at Trafalgar Park at 2pm on Saturday, and skated through the night despite plunging temperatures and weary legs. To support Twissel's 24-hour skating challenge visit the World Vision website:https://www.worldvision.org.nz/fundraising/xan-twissell/40-hour-famine. Photo credit: Martin De Ruyter/ www.nelsonmail.co.nz  5. Last week St Pat’s Silverstream hosted Wellington College in their annual sports exchange. Silverstream won the First XI football 4-1, while Wellington College prevailed 96-76 in the basketball and also won the First XV rugby 29-26. The Ken Gray Cup was played for in the rugby, after the former All Black prop. Here Silverstream player Kahil Adams in action during the pre-game hakas. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/Mike-Lewis-Pictures-323353771157586/?ref=br_tf
 Mount Albert Grammar School Year 13 student and multisport newbie James Kirkham admits that he was just concentrating on staying in his kayak in the early stages of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Multisport race that he won on Sunday. “The race started in the water with a big group together in our kayaks and a whole lot of people going for it and lots of wash from other people’s boats,” said James. “I haven’t done much kayaking and my main focus was just not falling out!” But Kirkham, a nationally ranked junior mountain biker, used his strength in the saddle and a dose of old fashioned grit on the run to put himself in contention over the back half of the race. “The race strung out and I basically hung on as much as I could in the kayak because I knew from my riding that once I got back on the beach I could really start packing on the pace on my bike.” From there he started making up time and picking off people in front of him. “I think I made up about five or six minutes on the bike, and got into the second transition in the lead and then tried my hardest to hang on in the run.” He explained that there was a decent uphill and a technical descent in the run, so all in all it was a tough race. The 25 km race beside Rotorua’s Blue Lake was part of the 2016 3D Rotorua Multisport Festival. James was the first male home in his race, which was broken down into a 4.5 km paddle, a 15 km mountain bike ride and then a 5.5 km trail run home to the finish. The Elite Senior Men’s event over 50 km was won by Hayden Wilde, Year 13 at Trident High School in Whakatane in 2015. James entered with few expectations other than to test himself. “I haven’t done much multisport before, this was my first full multisport race by myself, so didn’t really know to expect.” “I came down last year and watched this event and I thought well, I can ride, I have got a friend who has got a boat, so why not give it a go and see how it ends up and how I stacked up against everyone else who was there.” Pretty good, it turns out. He was there representing his school, MAGS, but entered as an individual. He was there with his family as his sister was also competing in a team’s race. Now he has a taste of winning his first multisport event, he says he’s keen for more races. “I’ve always liked the idea of the Coast to Coast race as something I’d love to do in the future. “Especially next year when I would’ve left school, I would like to do the full length 50 km race at Rotorua.” James’s main background is mountain biking. “For the past two years I’ve picked it up competitively and competed in Nationals and in the Oceania Championships down in Queenstown this year, finishing seventh in the Junior Men’s race.” He’s also been riding in the Nduro Events series over the winter, with a series of races coming up, and he also does road cycling. “We also have a school team that races throughout winter, in the Auckland Secondary Schools Champs.” This year’s NZSS Mountain Biking Championships are at the end of September in Dunedin. He mainly trains for mountain biking at either Riverhead near Kumeu or Maraetai in southwest Auckland. Next year James is weighing up his options, which may involve going to university straight away or even doing some racing overseas. “One of my goals is try and get to worlds next year.”  Below are selected five Photos of the Week, highlighting some of the terrific secondary school sporting events and achievements over the past seven days. Want to contribute to College Sport Media’s Photos of the Week from now on? We’d love to hear from you and publish your photos. Drop us a message on https://www.facebook.com/collegesportmedia or email us at [email protected] Note: If photos are not taken or by you we need to know their source so we can credit the photographer that took them or where they were first posted  1. St Thomas of Canterbury College supporters headed to Lincoln High School to support their First XV side in their UC Championship competition last Thursday. They weren’t disappointed, their team winning 24-5, their second victory of the competition. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/stcport  2. They’re off in the Wellington region Senior Boys cross country race last week. The eventual winner, Stefan Przychodzko of Paraparamu College is on the left of shot in the green singlet. He won the 6km race in a time of 20.24.9, ahead of Scots College’s Stewart Callum in 20.43.89 and St Pat’s Town’s Max Karamanolis in 20.47.27. The Junior Boys race was won by Finn Seeds of Hutt International Boys’ School and the Intermediate Boys race was won by Wellington College’s Dylan Lynch. Emma Douglas of Wellington Girls’ College won the Junior Girls, Kirstie Rae of Wellington East Girls’ College won the Intermediate Girls and Tessa Hunt, also of Wellington East, won the Senior Girls. Photo credit: Jo Murray / https://www.facebook.com/athleticswellington  3. The Marlborough Boys’ College First XI Football team after their win over 2015 national champions Nelson College last Thursday. Marlborough BC defeated Nelson College 2-1, to also claim the Alex Harvey Industries Cup, a three-decade old challenge trophy that formerly found its home in the North Island before Nelson College defeated Auckland’s Sacred Heart College 2-1 in the final of last year’s New Zealand Secondary Schools tournament. Photo credit: www.marlboroughexpress.co.nz / supplied.  4. The New Zealand U18 Boys 3x3 basketballers at the FIBA World Championships last week. The boys finished fourth and the girls knocked out at the quarter-finals and finished fifth. Hamilton Boys’ High School’s Hamish McDonald won the silver medal in the final of the shootout contest. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/basketballnz  5. Crosstown rivals Francis Douglas Memorial College and New Plymouth Boys’ High School had their annual midweek sports exchange last Wednesday. Here FDMC students do their haka late in the rugby game to spur their side on. Boys’ High won 24-7. In other results, the First XI football was drawn 3-3, Boys’ High won the basketball 110-48, the second XV rugby 88-5 and the First XI hockey 4-0. FDMC won the U15 rugby 10-5.
As part of a new series on College Sport Media, below are selected five Photos of the Week, highlighting some of the terrific secondary school sporting events and achievements over the past seven days. Schools that feature this week are: Hastings’ Boys High School, Howick College, Nelson College, Whangarei Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools and Sacred Heart College, Auckland. Want to contribute to College Sport Media’s Photos of the Week from now on? We’d love to hear from you and publish your photos. Drop us a message on https://www.facebook.com/collegesportmedia or email us at [email protected] Note: If photos are not taken or by you we need to know their source so we can credit the photographer that took them or where they were first posted.  1. The Hastings Boys’ High School First XV rugby team has made a hot start to their season, winning both their Hurricanes region Tranzit Coachlines festival matches comfortably. Last week they accounted for Wellington’s Scots College; on Saturday they beat 2015 Wellington champions St Pat’s Town on Westpac Stadium. Here halfback Folau Fakatava gets a pass way in the 43-7 win.  2. Just 24 hours after being named as Baseball New Zealand's Joint U18 Player of the Year with Elliot Johnstone, Diamondblacks Pitcher Kyle Glogoski (Howick College) was named the Howick Sportsperson of the Year at the Counties Manukau Sports Howick Sports Awards on Sunday Evening. Kyle is pictured here with former Olympic Silver Medallist Dick Quax. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/baseballnz/  3. Nelson College Year 12 Motocross rider Jackson Walker finished second behind Logan Shaw (Raglan Area School) in the fourth and final round of the New Zealand Junior cross-country series in Taranaki in the weekend. The pair finished one-two in the series as well. Photo credit: Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com  4. The combined Whangarei Girls’ and Boys’ High schools team won last week’s 16th annual Genesis Energy Hillary Challenge at Hillary Outdoors Tongariro. The combined eight-person Year 12/13 team beat out 11 other individual schools or combined boys/girls schools from throughout NZ to win, after qualifying for the final last year. The Hillary Challenge was a 5-day series of outdoor adventure challenges, including a 2-day rogaine style wilderness expedition and a multisport race on the final day. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/hillaryoutdoors  5. There was a notable result in the second round of the Auckland Premier 1A rugby competition on Saturday, with Sacred Heart College defeating St Kentigern College 19-16 and reversing a 3-20 semi-final loss to them last year. After two rounds, Mount Albert Grammar School, King’s College and Auckland Grammar school have a maximum 10 competition points to their names. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/Sacred-Heart-College-Auckland-1595457530672970/?fref=ts
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