$50 Meat Pack
Congratulations to Anne Hughes for winning our $50 meat pack voucher at our recent volunteers sign up evening.
North Island Inter-Schools Dressage Results: Tayha Lysaght placed 2nd in two rounds of dressage and Lauren placed 3rd in one of her dressage rounds. Also a big congratulations to Lauren and her team of riders placing 3rd overall in the North Island Interschool Dressage Competition series.
We took 5 teams to compete in the Thames Valley Secondary Schools 3×3 Championships in Te Aroha.
Congratulations to our Senior Girls team: Emily Davison, Jaylah Rolleston, Palace O’Brien, and Rylee Morgan on taking out the senior girls division. You ladies were undefeated throughout the day, well done.
Our Senior Boys team 1 – Logan Brady, Toby van der Zwan, Cassidy Shaw, and Harlem Field-Hargreaves (Tapene Ropiha also filled in for team 1) as well as our Junior Boys team 1 Lachy Sole, Brooklyn Frewin, and Callan Dodd both made it through to the semi finals. Congratulations guys.
Senior Boys team 2 Tapene Ropiha, Micah Frew, Ken Mercader, Xandrex Manaoat, and our fill in Peke Ropiha as well as our Junior Boys team 2 – Bhima Meares, Kevin Ainsley, Lincoln Alexander, and Ryan Adam’s played some amazing games and had lots of highlights it was an amazing day.
As always we couldn’t do it without the support of our volunteers. A huge mihi to whaea Susie and Shannon Hargreaves, thank you both so much for your continuous tautoko.
Surf Life Saving New Zealand
Max Morley has just completed SLSNZ Nationals which is a 4 day event at the Mount. He won Gold in the U15 board race (National Champion!) and Bronze in the U15 ski race.
He also got silver and bronze at Northern Region, and silver at Eastern Region. He also completed the Mount Monster as an individual competitor in December, which is unprecedented for a 15 year old.
This is epic Max!! Massive effort, hard work, and dedication. Well done.
We had a team of x4 tama enter the Waikato Golf Matchplay in Te Awamutu last week.
Here are the results:
Move over Tiger Woods, Kobe Phillips is making his way to the top. Finishing 3rd place in division 2 Championships. What an epic result Kobe, well done.
Aidan Butler had an impressive finish taking 3rd in the plate division.
Micah Frew came through with a very close match finishing 4th in plate division.
Ari Pillai finished off the matchplay in a 1v1 Stableford competition.
Overall an amazing performance by all our boys with some very impressive results for their first competition. This certainly has the boys humming and hungry for more.
Huge mihi to Matua Zac, Matua Glenn and Matua Richard for your tautoko in making this opportunity possible for our boys. We really appreciate all your tautoko.
Up next for golf at Waihi College is the Ambrose Golf Competition on 3rd April from 1-4pm at Waihi Golf Club. We have x5 teams entered. Thank you Matua Zac for making this happen for our tamariki, moving mountains and all.
Pegasus Cup
Congratulations to Evah Carey on getting 9th in the equitation finals. Briar Somers had a fantastic ride and placing 7th in the 70/80cm accumulator. Daisy Burgess also rode well placing 9th in the 80/90cm accumulator round.
Well done ladies on your amazing results.
North Island Secondary Schools Mountain Biking
Well done to Tate Randell who competed at the recent NISSMTB Champs.
Tate had a great time as the sole rider representing Waihi College at the North Island Secondary Schools Downhill Mountain biking championships held in Rotorua on Monday 18th March. The track was a massively challenging grade 5 on the New Zealand downhill track, Taniwha.
He managed to hit some new jumps and get his speed up well but unfortunately had a crash in his race run which set him back. We are still extremely proud of his time of 5:24:46 and 36th place. No injuries, new friends made and a great time all round .
Waka Ama Nationals
Our u16 Waka Ama Tama had an amazing debut at the recent Secondary Schools Waka Ama Nationals last week.
The team was made up of year 9 and 10 boys, Lachy Sole, Hale Nand, Jacob Adams, Blake Silk, Isaac Honey, and Lockie Patea. They start off well coming in with a 4th placing in the w6 1/3 500m heats and day 1.
With their tupuna and support crew behind them they paddled their way through to a FINAL in w6 250m. The crew came away with an outstanding 12th place Nationally. Waihi College are so proud of you boys!! Huge congratulations on your performance and massive achievement. Couldn’t have happened without your backbone – huge mihi coach Rangi, manager Cat and everyone else in your corner.
Believe and you can achieve.
RANDLAB Matamata Equestrian Group Horse Trial
Congratulations to Summah Mathers who entered in the recent RANDLAB 3 Day Event in Matamata.
The results were:
4th Place, Dressage 62.25%, Showjumping – Clear, Cross Country – Clear.
Well done Summah.
Inline Hockey Ryan Williams and past student Zac Williams headed to Australia to play inline hockey for the KIHL 21s.
KIHL 21s Young-Guns made their way to Brisbane, Australia, as part of the Australia vs New Zealand Super Series where our very own Young-Guns took on the Next Level Performance U21s and 38+ at the weekend.
Ryan was also selected in the Young-Guns to also compete in a Skills competition along with the KIHL All-Star Team. Well done team Williams.
Team Announcements
Well done to all our tamariki on your recent team trial announcements. To those who are still yet to trial in your sports code please remember to have fun, don’t put too much pressure on yourself. Reset, Recover, and try again.
Coming up in Sports
- WAIBOP Athletics – Tuesday 26th March
- Thames Valley Rugby 7’s – Wednesday 27th March
- Year 7&8 Boys Basketball Trials – Thursday 28th March