College Sport Media Photos of the Week for 5 September

Below are some selected Photos of the Week, highlighting some of the terrific secondary school sporting events and achievements over the past seven days

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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 - jonathon@blackstarsports.co.nz

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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