It has been an honour to be a part of such a great
team who fought incredibly hard to win as many
games as we could to come out on top for the second year running in our tough league of the Hastings competition. (HNHS Red) Most if not all our
games were won by large amounts which helped
to pull us through in the end. All our games were
played on a Monday after school either at Woodford or the Havelock club. Here we played teams
from Woodford house, Hastings Girls and the
other Havelock girls teams. Some of these games
were challenging and some were great coaching
games from us to the other players. Our results
in the Hawkes Bay Secondary School Individual
Tournament are improved placings from the girls
to 2014. I wish a ll the girls next year good luck and
I hope to see similar results if not better. All the
Squash Girls
Back Row: Jemimah Frost, Jasmine Mihaka, Caitlin Gregory
best.
Caitlin Gregory, Natalya Taylor and Robert Fridd
Front Row: Shiori Sakata, Olivia Addis, Jasmine Roydhouse-Ross,
Natalya Taylor (Captain), Lene Kaiser
A small team took part in the HBSS swimming
champs held at the Flaxmere pool. The event,
unfortunately, coincided with the open night
held at the school. The most successful swimmer from the school was Joseph Belcher who
won two titles. Fresh from dominating the
school champs, he swam in the 14/15 year old
age grade where he won the 50m freestyle by
over a second. His win in the 50m backstroke
was a much closer affair, where his win was
by a mere .07s. He also swam the open 100m
freestyle where he finished a creditable third.
Grace Jones was the other successful swimmer with a podium finish in three races. She
too was swimming in the 14/15 age group and
her best performance was in the 25m freestyle
where she finished second. She had two thirds Swim Team
Back Row: Joseph Belcher, Caroline Kitchin, Miharo Jones
as well, one in the 25m butterfly and one in
Front Row: Grace Jones, Astrid Austin, Hannah Andrews
the 50m freestyle. The closest of the other
swimmers to a podium finish was Miharo
Jones, who swam fourth in the 13 and under
50m breaststroke.
Joseph Belcher tasted success at the NZ age-group swimming champs held recently. He won bronze as part of
the Hawkes Bay U15 4x100m medley relay team. Joseph swam the first leg, which of course is the backstroke
leg. His best individual performance was in the 50m backstroke, where he made the final, finishing a creditable
6th. He also swam in the 100m backstroke, but was disappointed in his performance, missing out on the final.
His next goal for swimming, is the New Zealand swimming champs.