Sports Outside School / Triathlon / Volleyball
Double Dragons Grab Golds
Grappling with
Judo Success
Congratulations to Luke Pynenburg who recently competed at
the North Island Judo Championships. Luke won the Gold Medal
in both his competitions. He is
now ranked no. 1 in NZ as both
the North & South Island Champion in both the Open and his
weight grade. Luke also
happily takes on adult black
belts at Judo camp (far right).
Top Triathlon Team
SIMPLY THE BEST!
Sports & Cultural
During the last week of the
school holidays, Jacob Netzler
(U17 NZ Rep Team) travelled up
to Auckland to compete in the
World Taekwondo Federation
NZ Open tournament where he
won Gold in his division and also
officiated at the event. Jacob
also competed in the North
Island Championships in New
Plymouth in March and won gold
in both Fighting and Poomsae
(kata/form) events.
On Tuesday 12 March SBC entered a team in the
College Sport Wellington Triathlon Championships
held at Scorching Bay. We had 2 individuals and
2 teams for the event. All boys competed well.
Congratulations to the Year 7 and 8 team who won
their grade (100m open water swim, 5km bike and
1.5km run). The Champion team was Josh Sales,
Jared Angus and Hayden McMillan. Congratulations
to these boys. Hopefully a future in triathlon.
Junior Boys’ Volleyball
The junior boys (Year 9 and
10) team all began playing
volleyball for the first time in
2013. During term 1 we spent
many training sessions learning the basics of volleyball.
For most of the boys being
able to play the game seemed
like an impossible task. To
the boys credit, by the end of
2013 they were a competitive
team. This team competed in
the Wellington Regional Tournament in November of 2013.
We narrowly lost our first 2
104
games but showed some
great signs of improvements.
We finished a creditable 10th
place. This entire team will be
juniors again in 2014. We are
continuing on with our goal
of attending the North Island
Championships in November
2014. Look out Wellington.
There may be a champion
team in the making. Watch
this space in 2014.
Mr Hamish Sutherland
Junior Volleyball
St Bernard’s College 2013