We had 3 teams that represented school this year at
HB Champs & National Secondary Schools champs:
Senior boys, Junior boys, Junior girls.
We also had a senior girls team
Alexia Hinton, Elise Legarth, Ella Coram-O’Kane,
Leah Morrison, Millie Douglas, Katelyn van der
Gulick
BUT due to the school scheduling the production
the same weekend as National Secondary Schools
Champs, these girls were denied the opportunity to
play together as four of them were in the production!! However, they were still the senior girls team!!
Then we had more & different kids that played
through winter league, and Coaches for winter league Canoe Polo Junior Boys
were: Matt McGovern, Phil Parry, Wade Miller and Back Row: Jacob Mellors, Benjamin Hulena, Oscar Smyth
Front Row: Flynn Redmond, Zane Shadbolt, Oskar Rimmer
Trevor Hinton (2 teams).
Absent: Thomas Culham
Of these winter league kids, 9-10 of them are going to
carry on and play for the school teams over summer
in 2015/16, along with the kids we get from HNI.
So all in all, canoe polo at HNHS is growing steadily in numbers and with a very successful year with
funding applications, we have managed to increase
our boat quality with 6 brand new boats, sell off
some very old ones, do major repairs on more than 8
boats and obtain 2 sets of tournament quality decks
(full Kevlar).
I clearly forgot about it but the teams that went to
NZSSC did very well – senior boys were 4th in Open
Div 1 (first year out of junior boys and they got 4th
in top division), junior boys were 5th and junior girls
were 2nd in a nailbiter of a finish. Through winter
Canoe Polo Senior Boys
league we had 2 teams out of 5 in finals, The Spuds
Back Row: Ronan Jordan, Hamish Legarth, Jake Talbot
Front Row: Anton Edilson, Hunter Burns, Ben Caldwell
(junior boys) and Phil Foals (junior girls).
Absent: Hamish Talbot
Huge thanks to the coaches for their efforts over
the year and the time they put into the teams and
to the parents who ferried the players around, paid
for everything and provided wonderful food for the
teams when travelling away. Without the background help the players wouldn’t be able to compete
and without players the sport would die. We salute
the background people, you’re AWESOME!!
Meryn
Canoe Polo Junior Girls
Back Row: Mikaela Wroe, Terri Morrison, Samantha Spencer, Jacinta Redmond,
Phil Parry (Coach)
Front Row: Kate McKendrey, Meg Gallen (Captain), Greer Edilson