![]() At only 17 years of age Spotswood College’s Aidan Zittersteijn has achieved as many titles you’d expect a stalwart of a sport to accomplish. The indoor bowler has won many prestigious New Zealand junior and secondary school titles both individually and in a team. Zittersteijn can probably be classed as one of Taranaki’s most successful junior indoor bowlers. Recently, he came first in the New Zealand Secondary School Indoor Bowls open singles championships in Wellington, going through the tournament at the end of August unbeaten. Zittersteijn, who spoke on Access Radio Taranaki’s sports programme Get Onside, turned 17 at the beginning of September, topped 72 other bowlers from around the country beating Lytton High School’s Leighton Shanks 11-4, who had won the tournament twice before. “I was doing pretty good until the semi-final. I was four down on the last end [in the semi-final] and lucky enough to get four when the opposition played a wrong shot. The final was pretty one sided though” he said. The win backs up his success at the North Island Secondary School title in July beating Mathew Farquhar in a tight match 10-9. “This year we thought we would go up to North Islands because I’ve never been there before,” he said. Zittersteijn said most of the competitions clash with school but he manages to play whenever the opportunity presents itself locally and domestically. “I always play on Monday nights and sometimes on Wednesdays and Fridays. I get help from my Dad”. Starting indoor bowls at nine years of age when he went to watch his cousin in a representative match, Zittersteijn was eventually called up when there was a shortage of players. The teenager has never looked back since. Not only that he plays indoor bowls, the composed young man also has a roll outdoors during the summer. “They’re quite different. I learn from other people’s shot selection” He admits that the older generation are pleased that younger people are coming through and can bounce ideas off the stalwarts of the game. Zittersteijn’s success in a team is almost as good but he prefers playing in a team environment. “When you’re playing individually you don’t have anyone telling what you to do and stuff and you have more bowls to play”. Zittersteijn competed in the Auckland Masters recently and has a busy next few months coming up. 2016 Track Record: North Taranaki Paterson Trophy Team - (North Taranaki Senior Squad Top 8) - Won Zone finals, now play in NZ Finals(Welch Trophy) in Christchurch on Sept 2 - 4 New Zealand Finals - Welch Trophy - 1st place New Zealand Junior Singles Finals - 2nd place New Zealand Secondary Schools - Singles - 1st place New Zealand Secondary Schools - won "Player of the Tournament" North Island Champs - Secondary Schools - Singles - 1st place North Island Champs - Secondary Schools - Pairs - 3rd place (Position in Team - Skip) North Island Academy Team - (Position in Team - Second in Men’s Triples) Nth Taranaki Queens Birthday - Pairs - 2nd place (Position in Team - Lead) NZ Mixed Fours District Elimination - 1st place (Position in Team - Third) NZ Henselite Singles District Elimination - 2nd place NZ Junior Singles District Elimination - 1st place North Taranaki Junior Open Singles - 1st place Central Division Open Fours - 1st place (Position in Team - Third) North Taranaki Junior Team Representative North Taranaki Senior Team Representative Below are some selected 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. Harris Fogelberg of Auckland Grammar School wins the U20 Boys road race at the 49th NZSS Cycling Championship in Manawatu. The event this weekend drew 700 cyclists from 91 schools for the three-day competition. The format of the event saw the time trials on day one, road races on day two and points races on day three, across several age divisions. Palmerston North BHS won the Sir Bernard Fergusson trophy for the top U20 boys team – beating Auckland Grammar into second by a fraction of a second. Boys and Girls U20 winners were: Team time trial: U20 Boys: Palmerston North BHS 21:33.19, 1; Auckland Grammar School 21:33.24, 2; Christchurch BHS 21:51.00, 3. U20 Girls: St Peter’s School, Cambridge24:41.17, 1; Palmerston North GHS 25:19.07, 2; Waikato Diocesan 25:30.90, 3 Individual Road race U20 Boys: Harris Fogelberg (Auckland Grammar) 1:26:33, 1; Campbell Stewart (Palmerston North Boys) same time, 2; Aaron Milne (Auckland Grammar) st, 3. U20 Girls: Ellesse Andrews (St Peters Cambridge) 1:06.24, 1; Nicole Shields (Dunstan High) same time, 2; Emma Smith (Villa Maria College) st, 3. Individual points race: U20 Boys: Campbell Stewart (Palmerston North BHS) 23 points, 1; Oscar Elworthy (Takapuna GS) 13 points, 2; Aidan Nicholas (Takapuna GS), 9 points 3. U20 Girls: Ellesse Andrews (St Peter’s, Cambridge) 13 points, 1; Georgia Danford (St Cuthbert’s College) 13 points, 2; Nicole Shields (Dunstan HS) 7 points, 3. For more visit: https://www.facebook.com/CyclingNZLSchools/?fref=ts Photo credit: Credit: Jack McKenzie Photography 2. Mount Maunganui College surfer Elin Tawharu placed third in the Under 16 Girls Division of the 2016 Vissla ISA World Junior Championships completed in the Azores Islands overnight on Sunday/Monday. Tawharu was the highest placed Kiwi at the event with her podium finish being the first in nine years for New Zealand. Other top performing Kiwis included Raiha Ensor and Kehu Butler who both finished seventh in their respective Under 18 Girls and Under 16 Boys Divisions. The New Zealand Junior Surfing Team finished tenth overall. Read more at https://www.facebook.com/SurfingNZ Photo credit: ISA / Rezendes. 3. The King Country Touch Tournament was played in Te Kuiti last week, with teams from Te Kuiti High School, Te Awamutu College,Otorohanga College, Piopio College, Taumarunui High School and Te Kura O Ngapuke all battling it out to take the title. In the junior section, Otorohanga Junior Gold won and Te Kuiti High School Junior 2 finished second. In the senior competition, Te Awamutu took the honours and Taumarunui High School Gold finished second. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/sportwaikatosecondaryschools 4. Last Tuesday the St Cuthbert’s College First XI hockey team won Auckland’s Supercity competition, beating close rivals Diocesan School for Girls 3-0 in the final to annex this year’s Premier Girls Hockey title. Previously St Cuthbert’s had gone through the round-robin season unbeaten winning their seven matches by a cumulative score of 35-1. On a national level, they finished runners-up to Christchurch’s Villa Maria College losing 1-2 in extra time in the Federation Cup final. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/CollegeSportAkld/ 5. Action from the NZ Schools Cross Country Skiing Championship recently held at the Snow Farm in Central Otago. This was the last race series of the season at the Snow Farm and comprised three races; a 2km classic, 1 km freestyle sprint and a 500m 3 person relay. This year there were 28 competitors from 10 schools, ranging in level from Year 1 to Year 13. All competitors raced the same courses and awards were presented individually for the best female and male in each school category, fastest relay teams, most participants and top school from the most points collected from the top three participants across all three races from each school. Awards this year went to Ben McMurray WPS and Chantel Thurston WPS (Y1-6), Ben Silipo MAC and Olivia Jones MAC (Y7-8) and Louis Jones MAC and Meg Creagh DHS (Y9-13). Most participants, fastest relay team and top overall school once again went to Mount Aspiring College. Full results are available at http://www.sporty.co.nz/asset/downloadasset?id=1c3040df-a0ff-4205-8029-9e2689854ec2
22/9/2016
Kiwi Boys Battle Big Azores Swell![]() The Kiwi boys have had to battle the biggest swell of the week on day five of the 2016 Vissla ISA World Junior Surfing Championship being held in the Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal this week. The swell, in excess of two metres has made conditions dangerous with multiple boards being snapped including one from our own Manu Scott – Arrieta (Sandy Bay). The size and power of the swell forced the event organisers to withhold all female heats on day five and also on the upcoming day six of the event. Competition was held on only one of the two podiums today. The New Zealand Team held their own in the big surf with critical heat wins that saw three surfers advance to the third round joining Mount Maunganui team mates Kehu Butler, Jonas Tawharu, Elin Tawharu, Kea Smith and Raiha Ensor. The youngest of the team, Kaya Horne, had a tough second round match up where he was relegated to the repechage round which he will contest first thing on day six. Ohope surfer and first-time team member Jared Gebert was full of confidence after winning his way in to the third round of the Under 16 Boys Division with an 11.34 point heat total. “Feels so sick to win a heat at the Worlds” exclaimed Gebert. “I was pretty fired up after yesterday. I knew I could surf better than that Round 2 heat when I lost so I just went out to prove I can surf. I started the heat at the other end of the beach and didn't find much so had to move down. Luckily I found two lefts down the other end where our coach had been watching earlier and they ended up being my best two waves and that got me through. I am learning heaps here and can't wait for the next heat” he added. Elliot Brown (Dun) also advanced out of his Under 16 Boys heat late in the day finishing in first place with a 7.84 point heat total out of a possible 20. “I've started to get used to what the judges want to see and the sand banks at the contest site so my confidence is starting to build! I'm looking forward to the next heat and I hope the team keeps going strong” Brown said. In the Under 18 Boys Division it was Manu Scott – Arrieta (Sandy Bay) that advanced out of the repechage rounds to join Jonas Tawharu in Round 3. “Oh yeah, stoked as to make it through. It was a heavy heat but I managed to get a pretty good score then got pounded when I was paddling back out but I eventually made it. Waves should be better tomorrow so I am pumped to get back out there in Round 3.” Earlier on day four of the event, the team advanced three surfers through to the third round as well as suffering three exits from the event. Raiha Ensor (Mnt) forced her way out of the repechage rounds back to the main event making up for an earlier loss that she lamented. “I just want to take it heat by heat and try and give my all in each one. Everyone rips in these comps by the time you get to the later rounds so I think I'll just need to be confident in myself and my surfing” said Raiha of the path that lies ahead. Meanwhile fellow Mount Maunganui surfer Kea Smith also battled her way out of the repechage rounds in the Under 16 Girls Division. “Most of your effort is put into your paddle back out after waves, it is very dangerous also, a lot of teams have complained saying the heats should not held in the conditions” commented Smith after her day four heat and before the swell increased further. Kehu Butler made easy work of his day four match up in the second round advancing to the top half of the draw with confidence. “My game plan heading into my heat was to be selective and try and catch the two best waves to save me from duck diving heaps” a strategy that clearly worked for the sixteen year old. The three losses came from our surfers in the Under 18 Boys and Girls Divisions. Daniel Farr (Tara) and Lee Ririnui (Mnt) had low-scoring heats on day four of the event and could not find any decent waves among the relentless close outs. The two surfers finished tbird in their respective heats and 97thequal overall. Britt Kindred (Mur) suffered a loss in the second round of the repechage also finding the conditions difficult. Kindred finished 41st equal in the event. Day six of the event will see only the boys in action while the girls have a lay day. Please see below for results from days four and five of competition held at Praia do Monte Verde on the Azores Islands. Under 18 Boys Main Event Round 2 Heat 5 Luis Diaz, ESP, 9.26, 1, Jonas Tawharu, NZL, 8.83, 2, Luís Perloiro, POR, 8.76, 3, Ariel Sanin, ISR, 1.03, 4 Under 18 Boys Repechage Round 1 Heat 11 Noa Mizuno, HAW, 12.74, 1, Max Self, CAN, 10.50, 2, Daniel Farr, NZL, 6.84, 3, Jordan Gibson, CAN, 2.34, 4 Heat 14 Spencer Bridges, UK, 6.43, 1, Roni Sheyngard, ISR, 5.90, 2, Lee Ririnui, NZL, 5.77, 3, Arpad Leclère, BEL, 0.00, 4 Under 18 Boys Repechage Round 2 Heat 4 Jácome Correia, POR, 8.10, 1, Manu Scott-Arrieta, NZL, 7.80, 2, Sebastian Soto, PUR, 6.73, 3, Bouaouda Aboubakr, MAR, 3.04, 4 Under 18 Girls Repechage Round 2 Heat 1 Delfina Morosini, URU, 8.30, 1, Havanna Cabrero, PUR, 7.00, 2, Mathea Olin, CAN, 4.87, 3, Britt Kindred, NZL, 2.50, 4 Heat 7 Nina Reynal, FRA, 13.50, 1, Raiha Ensor, NZL, 5.83, 2, Sanoa Olin, CAN, 2.17, 3, Ben-Aid Oumaima, MAR, 1.00, 4 Under 16 Boys Main Event Round 2 Heat 5 Erwan Blouin, FRA, 8.43, 1, Eno James, UK, 7.33, 2, Riaru Ito, JPN, 7.10, 3, Jared Gebert, NZL, 4.27, 4 Heat 9 Kehu Butler, NZL, 11.67, 1, Barron Mamiya, HAW, 8.10, 2, Joaquim Chaves, POR, 5.96, 3, Oscar Urbina, CRC, 5.70, 4 Heat 15 Warren Peckett, TAH, 13.50, 1, Kade Matson, USA, 9.03, 2, Kaya Horne, NZL, 5.30, 3, Gonçalo Magalhaes, POR, 3.33, 4 Under 16 Boys Repechage Round 2 Heat 3 Elliot Brown, NZL, 7.84, 1, Gabriel Vargas C., PER, 6.37, 2, Hernan Alvira, URU, 4.73, 3, Stellio Bobet, TAH, 3.00, 4 Heat 6 Jared Gebert, NZL, 11.34, 1, Jerónimo Ane, ARG, 8.77, 2, Cristobal Montecinos, CHI, 5.80, 3, Oscar Cauchi, BEL, 3.50, 4 Under 16 Girls Repechage Round 2 Heat 7 Uhaina Joly, FRA, 7.00, 1, Kea Smith, NZL, 5.10, 2, Francisca Veselko, POR, 3.63, 3, Tebbai Lilias, MAR, 2.63, 4 Team Points 1 USA, 10240 1 FRANCE, 10240 1 HAWAII, 10240 1 AUSTRALIA, 10240 1 JAPAN, 10240 6 COSTA RICA, 9700 6 BRAZIL, 9700 8 PERU, 9158 8 ARGENTINA, 9158 10 SPAIN, 9071 11 SOUTH AFRICA, 8900 12 URUGUAY, 8800 13 GREAT BRITAIN, 8547 14 NEW ZEALAND, 8466 15 TAHITI, 8158 Please see below for the day six schedule which will be held overnight tonight (Thursday 22nd September). Podium 1 8:40pm – Manu Scott – Arrieta (Under 18 Boys Main Event Round 3) 9:40pm – Jonas Tawharu (Under 18 Boys Main Event Round 3) 1:20am – Under 18 Boys Main Event Round 4 – heats to be confirmed Podium 2 9:40am – Kaya Horne (Under 16 Boys Repechage Round 2) 11:40am – Elliot Brown (Under 16 Boys Main Event Round 3) 12:40am – Jared Gebert (Under 16 Boys Main Event Round 3) 1:40am – Kehu Butler (Under 16 Boys Main Event Round 3) Further heats pending Kaya Horne’s progression. The Azores Islands are located off the coast of Portugal. The event location picks up a lot of swell and when the surf gets over 1.5m, it becomes a powerful beach break with challenging waves. The New Zealand Team finished 15th at the 2015 ISA World Championship which was won by the home team USA over France in second and Hawaii in third. The team is expected to climb back up the rankings this year given the experience of the selected surfers and a surf break that will suit the surfers. For the first time, the ISA will also utilize a four-man priority system eliminating the need to hassle for waves. The World Junior Surfing Championships is an annual event having been held since 2003. New Zealand has competed at the event since its inception as well as competing at the World Grommet Titles as it was formerly known since 1989. Looking for $40000 University of Waikato Study Scholarships CLICK HERE Looking for Sport Exchange Opportunities to Australia CLICK HERE Below are some selected 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. Dan Hoy (Westlake Boys’ High School) provided the highlight on day two of elite racing at the ITU World Triathlon Championships in Cozumel, Mexico on Saturday, finishing in fourth place in the Junior Men’s race, backed up by strong debut performances by fellow Kiwis Liam Ward (Saint Kentigern College, 22nd) and Trent Dodds (Maclean’s College, 26th). The Kiwis featured heavily throughout the event in amongst a large field of over 70 athletes, with Ward and Dodds putting on creditable displays on debut at the World Champs as athletes faced hot and humid conditions. Hoy missed a medal in Cozumel by just three seconds in a bold display that had him leading the race out of T2 and onto the 5km run leg, all the more impressive given he has another year in this division up his sleeve. Photo supplied. Read more: https://triathlon.kiwi/tri-media/hoy-the-highlight-with-4th-place-at-world-champs/ 2. William Stedman (Middleton Grange School) has seen a dream come true in Rio, winning double bronze in the Men’s T36 400m and 800m on the finals days of athletics at the Rio 2016 Paralympics. In both races, Stedman at 16, the youngest member of the Para-Athletics team, came from behind with strong finishes in both races to take third place. Going into the Games ranked fourth in the shorter distance and sixth in the 800m, he ran personal bests in both events, improving to 55.69 and 2:11.98 respectively to claim double bronze. Stedman, who has Ataxia, a form of Cerebral Palsy, attended the London 2012 Paralympics as a twelve year old and was inspired to take up athletics. He was encouraged by his family who are in Rio for the Games. Read more: http://www.athletics.org.nz/News/double-bronze-for-stedman-in-rio Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/AthleticsNZ/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf 3. They may have relinquished their national secondary school crown but, by any standards, it's still been a great year for volleyball at Western Heights High School. Five players from the school have played age group volleyball for New Zealand and the pairing of Daniel Michael and Tyran Gillespie won the national secondary school beach volleyball title. One of the school's top prospects, Billy Johnstone, captained the New Zealand U18 side that also featured Western Heights student Kuratea Broughton in a US High Performance tournament in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Daniel Michael, Jon Newman and Matthew Butterfield were part of the national U20 squad that competed in the South East Asian Games. Photo credit and read more: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503438&objectid=11710328 6. The Auckland Grammar School team that won the K2 North Island Secondary Schools Skiing Competition last week at Turoa. Overall placings by school were: 1. Auckland Grammar School - Team A (89 points), 2. Diocesan School for Girls - Team B (88), 3. Tauhara College - Team A (85), 4. Diocesan School for Girls - Team A (84), 5. Auckland Grammar School - Team B (82), 6. Kings College - Team A (80), 7. Western Springs College Team A (76), 8 = Lindisfarne College - Team A (73), 8 = Saint Kentigern College - Team A (73), 10. Saint Cuthbert’s College - Team A (72). Full results at: http://www.ruapehucollege.school.nz/upload/usermedia/files/21642/updated%20official%20results%20end%20of%20day%202.html.pdf Photo credit and for some great action shots visit: https://www.facebook.com/K2NorthIslandSecondarySchoolsSkiingCompetition/?fref=ts 5. Also at the ITU World Triathlon Championships in Cozumel (see Dan Hoy, above), Bayley Van Coolwijk (St. Mary's College) finished sixth in the 16-19 Years Female race. She was first after the swimming and cycling legs but faded in the heat in her first major international competition. Local Mexican athletes filled the first four places and a British girl finished fifth. A very encouraging start to Bailey’s career.
![]() The New Zealand Junior Surfing Team successfully battled small conditions of less than 1.0m against the world’s best junior surfers at the Vissla ISA World Junior Surfing Championships overnight (Monday 19th September). All five surfers competing on day two advanced through to the third day of the event which is being held in the Azores Islands located off Portugal. Mount Maunganui surfer Raiha Ensor tipped the tables on our French counterparts by winning her match up. The French surfers have had the better of the first round heats so far, beating us in four out of five match ups but Ensor posted a 9.20 point heat total to win her heat over Nina Reynal. “The conditions were pretty fickle out there today but coming from the Mount I've had a bit of experience in these kind of waves” said Ensor. “It took me a few waves to find my rhythm but I eventually figured it out and picked up a few runners to get the win” she added. Ensor who is fresh back from competing for New Zealand at the World Surfing Games held in Costa Rica was also happy to see her fellow female team mates advance through their heats and make it a clean sweep for the Kiwi girls. Britt Kindred was one of Ensor’s team mates who advanced despite conditions being the total opposite of her home break at Muriwai Beach. Kindred managed to place second in her heat and advance to day three where she expects to be more at home in a building swell and onshore winds, conditions that she says are more common of her home break. In the Under 16 Girls Division Kea Smith and Elin Tawharu, both of Mount Maunganui, placed second in their heats. Smith was glad to see out the first round which is always filled with nerves at such big international events. “I sat at watched the surf with the under 16 boys and they helped me out with where I should sit and the signs they were going to do to help me during the heat” said Smith. Meanwhile Tawharu posted the Kiwi’s highest heat total of the event with 12.33 points out of a possible 20 placing second behind 2015 event champion Summer Macedo (HAW). “My game plan was just to build my scores as the heat went on” said Tawharu who did exactly that in her heat. After a delay in proceedings due to the small swell and full tide, Kehu Butler contested his first round heat late in the afternoon. He was the only male team member to surf on day two. Butler placed second in his heat scoring 9.60 points to Australia’s Billy Harrison who scored 11.96 points. Both surfers advanced to the next round. “Yeah I feel much more relaxed now that the first heat is out of the way and I will have a lot less nerves coming into the next round” said Butler who plans not hold back as much on his opening manoeuvres and commit to his strengths in the next round in order to ramp up his performance. After two days of competition, Kaya Horne (Gold Coast based), Daniel Farr (Tara) and Lee Ririnui (Mnt) are yet to get their campaigns underway. Day three of the event will see nine team members in action while Butler, Jonas Tawharu (Mnt) and Jared Gebert (Ohope) will have the day off. The New Zealand Junior Surfing Team is competing amongst 39 nations and over 370 surfers at this year’s event, the biggest in the history of the International Surfing Association. Please see below for results from day two of competition held at Praia do Monte Verde on the Azores Islands today 19th September 2016. Under 18 Girls Main Event Round 1 Heat 4 Juliette Brice, FRA, 7.83, 1, Britt Kindred, NZL, 5.00, 2, María Cristina Game, ECU, 3.70, 3 Heat 13 Raiha Ensor, NZL, 9.20, 1, Valentina Resano, NCA, 7.26, 2, Nina Reynal, FRA, 6.60, 3, Ben-Aid Oumaima, MAR, 0.93, 4 Under 16 Girls Main Event Round 1 Heat 13 Uhaina Joly, FRA, 14.66, 1, Kea Smith, NZL, 7.27, 2, Yariann Del Mar Camacho, PUR, 5.63, 3 Heat 16 Summer Macedo, HAW, 17.50, 1, Elin Tawharu, NZL, 12.33, 2, Cecilia Silva, PUR, 4.64, 3 Under 16 Boys Main Event Round 1 Heat 20 Billy Harrison, AUS, 11.96, 1, Kehu Butler, NZL, 9.6, 2, Neil Aboufiras, MAR, 7.5, 3, Freddy Sanford, CAN, 3.36, 4 Please see below for the day three schedule which will be held overnight tonight (Monday 19th September). Podium 1 8:20pm – Daniel Farr (Under 18 Boys Main Event Round 1) 8:40pm – Lee Ririnui (Under 18 Boys Main Event Round 1) 1:20am – Elin Tawharu (Under 16 Girls Main Event Round 2) 1:40am – Kea Smith (Under 16 Girls Main Event Round 2) 4:45am – Elliot Brown (Under 16 Boys Repechage Round 1) Podium 2 11:00pm – Kaya Horne (Under 16 Boys Main Event Round 1) 12:40am – Britt Kindred (Under 18 Girls Main Event Round 2) 2:40am – Raiha Ensor (Under 18 Girls Main Event Round 2) 4:50am – Manu Scott – Arrieta (Under 18 Boys Repechage Round 1) The Azores Islands are located off the coast of Portugal. The event location picks up a lot of swell and when the surf gets over 1.5m, it becomes a powerful beach break with challenging waves. The New Zealand Team finished 15th at the 2015 ISA World Championship which was won by the home team USA over France in second and Hawaii in third. The team is expected to climb back up the rankings this year given the experience of the selected surfers and a surf break that will suit the surfers. For the first time, the ISA will also utilize a four-man priority system eliminating the need to hassle for waves. The World Junior Surfing Championships is an annual event having been held since 2003. New Zealand has competed at the event since its inception as well as competing at the World Grommet Titles as it was formerly known since 1989. Below are some selected 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. Lindisfarne College won the supreme "Toughest School" title for the second consecutive year at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Tough Guy and Gal Challenge in Rotorua. The six students entered, Lachlan Cairns, William Little, Ronan Lee (12km), and James Buckeridge, Harry Mowat, and Todd Douglas (6km) dominated the extremely muddy conditions at the Hell's Gate course. In a field of 800-plus students across the two distances, it was vital to get to the front early to avoid congestion. Leading from the front, Cairns and Little placed first and second respectively with identical times in the 12km senior division, while Lee finished second in the junior division for the same distance. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11704419 2. Last week Levin's Waiopehu College won two hockey trophies against Whanganui in one night. The college's boys' side beat their Whanganui High School counterparts 5-2 in their final to win the Central Districts' College Hockey title. On the next field over, the girls' team defeated opposition from the same school 3-2 to win their trophy. Waiopehu College has two hockey teams and a roll of 650. Whanganui High School's roll is about 1600. Photo and article credit: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/sport/college-sport/83918064/levins-waiopehu-college-wins-two-hockey-trophies-in-whanganui-in-one-night 3. Action from the 2016 NZ Secondary School Swimming Championships that were held in Wellington this weekend. Westlake Boys’ High School retained their title, winning the boys points competition with 2,043 ahead of Wellington College on 1,974 and Palmerston North Boys’ High School on 1,425. Diocesan School for Girls won with 1,839 points ahead of St Cuthbert’s College - Epsom on 1770.5 and last year’s winners Napier Girls’ High School on 1,433. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/swimmingnewzealand/?fref=ts by BW. Media. For more visit www.bwmedia.co.nz 4. Also at the same venue, the 32nd NZSS Underwater Hockey Championships that were held in Wellington over Winter Tournament Week. The winners were: Mount Albert Grammar School (Senior Open), Trident High School (Senior Girls), Tauranga Boys’ College (Junior Open) and Diocesan School for Girls (Junior Girls). View the results at https://www.facebook.com/2016-32nd-UWHNZ-National-Secondary-Schools-Championship-1773184519589824/ 5. Ball handling skills gleaned from playing netball have benefited Regan Wilson's rugby career. Wilson, of Winton, and his family will have a proud moment when he plays for the New Zealand Maori under-18 team against Bay of Plenty under-19 in Rotorua on September 25. It is the curtain raiser to the NPC game between Auckland and Bay of Plenty. "I'm really stoked to make the team," the Central Southland College student said. From age 5 to 13 Wilson played netball. The 18-year-old has been in the college's First XV for four years, playing at wing or fullback. Read more at http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/84134388/regan-wilson-steps-up-to-national-rugby Photo credit: Robyn Edie/Fairfax NZ
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6/9/2016
WTW - Just the winners![]() Congratulations to the Senior National Champions from Winter Tournament Week 2016. Boys Badminton: Westlake Boys' High School Girls Badminton: Westlake Girls' High School Cycling South Island Two-Day Tour: U20 Girls Emma Smith (Villa Maria College); U20 Boys Hugo Jones (CBHS); U17 Girls Annamarie Lipp (Catholic Cathedral College); U17 Boys Finn Fisher-Black (Nelson College); U15 Girls Caitlin Titheridge (CGHS); U15 Boys Laurence Pithie (CBHS) Boys Rugby: Mount Albert Grammar School Girls Rugby: Southland Girls' High School Boys First XI Football: Sacred Heart College Girls First X1 Football: Mount Albert Grammar School Mixed Golf: Burnside High School Boys Hockey: St. Paul's Collegiate Girls Hockey: Villa Maria College NZSS Rugby League: Southern Cross Campus NZSS Shooting Championships: Darfield High School (team winners), Summer O' Dwyer, Samuel Marsden (individual winner) NZSS Table Tennis Championships: U19 Boys Victor Ma (Westlake BHS), U19 Girls Ruofei Rao (Epsom GGS); U15 Boys Eric Yin (Westlake BHS); U15 Girls Sophie Low (Macleans College) Indoor Bowls: James Hargest College (Caleb Hope/Hannah Wilson) team winners and Aidan Zittersteijn (Spotswood College) individual winner NZ Road Race Running Championships: U18 Boys Christopher Dryden (Catholic Community College); U18 Girls Hannah O’Connor (Sacred Heart College, New Plymouth) Below are some selected 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. Westlake Boys’ High School’s badminton team (pictured) and sister school Westlake Girls’ High School won the Division 1 Boys and Girls NZSS Badminton Championships last week in Hamilton. Over 800 matches were played over four days, with 24 boys’ and 19 girls’ teams competing in two divisions. Photo credit Blackstar Sports - [email protected] 2. Takapuna Grammar School’s Oscar Elworthy won the 2016 National Individual Cycling Championships U20 Boys division in Auckland over the weekend. Aaron Wylie from Auckland Grammar School finished second and Oliver Gilbertson of Kings College third. Oscar was the 2016 2016 National Champion U20 Boys Criterion winner and the overall winner. Georgia Danford from St Cuthbert’s College was the overall Girls U20 winner; with St Peter’s Cambridge pair Rose Dillon and Holly Blakley in second and third. Photo credit: Takapuna Grammar School Cycling https://www.facebook.com/TGS-Cycling-198616026833984/?fref=ts&ref=br_tf 3. Palmerston North’s Manukura High School won the lower North Island secondary schools netball title for the second time in three years last week. Manukura beat Wellington's St Mary's College 27-24 in the final at Wanganui, after beating Wanganui Collegiate School 46-16 in their quarter-final and Wellington East Girls' College 39-32 in the semi-final. Nearby school Palmerston North Girls' High School finished fourth, losing their final playoff game 32-25 against Wellington East Girls' College. Both Manawatu schools have qualified for the nationals in Lower Hutt in October. Photo credit: http://www.sportsground.co.nz/lnissn/99916/ 4. There were several super-competitive NZSS hockey tournaments around New Zealand last week. A snapshot of this was Epsom Girls’ Grammar School, who eventually finished runners-up to Waimea College in the division 3 Audrey Timlin Memorial tournament at Ashburton, losing 3-2 in the final. Previously, both their quarter-final and semi-final had gone into extra time, with EGGS coming out on top Craighead Diocesan and St Mary’s College respectively after scores had been locked up at 2-2 at fulltime. Meanwhile, EGGS’ badminton team won the NZSS table tennis teams’ Girls championships. The team was Ruofei Roa, Lucy Lin and Christina Zhou. In the earlier individual competition, Ruofei Rao beat teammate Christina Zhou in the final. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/EpsomGirlsGrammarSport/?fref=ts 5. The number one field ahead at the Rugby Institute in Palmerston North at dawn ahead of the start of the Top 4 National Championships late last week. Mount Albert Grammar School (Boys). Feilding High School (Co-ed) and Southland Girls’ High School (Girls) were the three winners. Photo by Sport&RugbyInstitute via Twitter at @SRI_NZ
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