Ngaruawahia High School Yearbooks 2010-2012 Ngaruawahia High School Yearbook 2011 | Page 44

Waka Ama Nationals

From the 29th of March to the 1st of April the school sent
five Waka Ama Teams to the New Zealand Secondary School
Championships at Lake Tikitapu in Rotorua.
After four days of intense competition resulted in our
teams bringing home 5 medals in total.
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Gold was won on the first day by the J19’s crew in the
W 12 (Double Hull) - Championship Division
Kingsley Smith won a bronze medal in the W1 category Championship Division
J19 men won silver medals in both the W6 250 and 500
metres - Championship Division

Wintec & V8 Supercars ITM 400 Visit
14th April 2011
Congratulations to Jacob Scott, Carlos Makiteiaa
Tamati, Chase Shortland, Connor Forrest, Wade Duthie, Shai
Findley, Wiremu Gillespie and Brandon Haumaha who were
invited to an exclusive behind the scenes tour prior to the
start of this event.
The tour included a pit lane walk, race control and
media centre tour, garage viewing as teams were preparing
for racing and a V8 Supersafe presentation - a road safety
and young driver training initiative.
This was a chance to see what really goes on behind
the scenes of New Zealand’s largest annual sport event
courtesy of Wintec.

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J19 woman won silver in the W6 250 metres Championship Division

The next 2 days were made up of heats and semi final
races and all of our crews made it in to the Championship
division for at least one of the 2 distances.
The J16 woman came third in the plate division for the
W6 250 metres.
The school is very proud of all our students and the
efforts that the put in during the competition and the training
that was done in the lead up to the event.