Photos of the week for 10 April

Below are some selected Photos of the Week, highlighting some of the secondary school sporting events and achievements from the past week in NZ secondary school sport
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1. Tauranga Girls' College Year 10 student Brooke Wilson placed third at the Asia Oceanic Wakeboard junior champs held at Lake Karapiro in February. It was the first time the event had been held in New Zealand and Brooke was the first Kiwi to make the podium. Brooke has been selected for the New Zealand team to contest the World Junior Championships in Spain where she would be up against the best under-18 wakeboarders in the world. Photo credit Charlotte Rowlands and read more at http://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503345&objectid=11832069

2. The race of the North Island Secondary School Athletics meet over the weekend in Inglewood. Local Tararaki runner Hannah O’Connor pips Charli Miller in the Intermediate Girls 3000m. Both broke the record, with Sacred Heart New Plymouth’s Hannah winning in 9.32.31 and Charli on her shoulder in 9.32.96 after putting in  a blistering last 400m. Photo credit Jo Murray. Full results at https://nzssaa.org.nz/static/ni-tf-2017/results.pdf  

3. Pakuranga College student Liam James, 15, won big in the Brazillian JuJitsu No Gi Nationals last weekend. The Year 12 student won gold in the event, taking out the title of national champion for his division. James, who trained up to 10 hours a week in the lead up to the competition, has been doing martial arts since the age of 6. In 2009, he won the Taekwondo full contact Nationals and was the National champion in his division in WTF [World Taekwondo Federation] taekwondo. Photo credit and read more: http://www.times.co.nz/sports/local-student-wins-big-brazilian-jujitsu/  

4. The Dunstan High School girls under-15 rowing eight who won gold at the Maadi Cup. From front, Skye Morton, Sophie Williamson, Kate Hanning, Abbie Harrison, Meg Creagh, McKenzie Ealson, Paige Furrie, Hanna Scarlet and Harriet Scherp. The girls under-15 rowing eight smashed their opposition by two boat lengths in the A-final at Lake Karapiro last week to record Central Otago and Queenstown's only medal in the biggest and most prestigious rowing meet.  They beat the best North Island team from Tauranga Girls by about seven seconds in the final. Photo credit Sharron Bennet t and read more at http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/91177716/maadi-cup-glory-for-dunstan-high-school-rowers

5. Christchurch Girls’ High School’s first XI cricket team recently won the NZCT qualifying tournament at Hagley Park, booking a spot in the national finals in December. The team cruised through its pool games, beating Burnside High School, Rangiora High School and Cashmere High School. Facing off against Lincoln High School in the final, CGHS made 140/4 batting first, with Sophie Gray chipping in a solid 60. In reply, Lincoln batted their 20 overs and made 61/6, with Amelia Webber taking three wickets. Photo credit and read more at: http://www.star.kiwi/2017/04/christchurch-girls-high-off-to-nationals/

6. The 2017 Auckland Archery League is wrapping up and last week Chayse Martin from St Peter's College, took out the individual recurve competition and shot 300/300 in the third round. Luke Franklyn (St Peter’s College) got second and Finn Matheson (King’s College) was third. In the Individual Compound, Adam Niziol (Marcellin College) was first, Isaac Ellery (Botany Downs College) was second and Harrison Franklyn (St Peter's College). The interschool matchplay championships were held on Saturday. Photo credit and for full results, see the College Sport Auckland website: http://collegesport.co/sports/archery/

7. Summer Tournament Week was a busy on the water for the country’s leading secondary school sailors. The Northern (Sandspit YC), Auckland (Kohimara YC), Central North Island (Taupo), Wellington / Lower North Island (Evans Bay YMBC), Southern (Queen Charlotte YC) and the Bau of Plenty Cup (Tauranga YPBC) were all held and many events saw record entries. In Auckland, Kristin School (photo here) were again victorious but had to fight hard to beat Westlake Boys' High School (2nd). Auckland Grammar A and Kings College also showed they had some significant capability at the Auckland event and will be strong contenders at the national championships. Read more and photo credit: http://www.yachtingnz.org.nz/news/201704/record-numbers-in-college-teams-racing