College Sport Media: Oppressively hot weather and a largely unsuitable diet wasn’t enough to prevent Connor Bell from reasserting his status as the best Under-18 discus thrower in the World at the Micronesian Athletics Championships in Vanuatu. The product of Westlake Boys’ High School threw 64.47m in confirming his spot at the Junior Olympics in Argentina in October. If Bell repeats that throw he will break the youth Olympic record. However Bell wasn’t entirely happy with his performance. “64.47 is my third best throw. Last year at Secondary School Nationals…
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Macleans College 1st XI Boys Hockey (Photo credit: Ben Campbell / BC Photography) Selwyn College v Pakuranga College 2nd XI Boys Football Long Bay College v Birkenhead College / Hobsonville Point Secondary School Composite Girls 10’s Rugby Onehunga High School v Pakuranga College 1st XV Boys Rugby Saint Kentigern v Sacred Heart 1st XI Boys Football Tangaroa College v Tamaki College 1st XV Boys Rugby
Read MoreWaiuku College cricketers ready to compete in Rarotonga
AucklandNOW: The Waiuku College 1st XI girls cricket team will soon travel overseas for the first time. The team is heading to Rarotonga in September, where they will compete as part of a sports exchange, against the Rarotongan womens team, club teams and school teams. Captain Kadia Thornton was one of the students who saw the need for a girls cricket team two years ago and helped round up enough players for a team and got teachers on board with the idea. The team went from strength to strength and developed into…
Read MoreBadminton athlete planning to peak for Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games
NZ Olympic Committee: Oscar Guo has been named to the New Zealand team for the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games. The 17 year old was selected following strong results at international events early in the year, including the Men’s Singles title at the North Harbour International – his first international title at a senior level. The Westlake Boys’ High School student was ranked 12th on the Badminton World Federation Junior World Ranking List for the Youth Olympic Games and will compete in the men’s singles event and the mixed team event,…
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Long Bay College 1st XI Boys Football Mt Albert Grammar v Mt Roskill Grammar Girls 10’s Rugby Selwyn College v Rosmini College 15A Boys Football Long Bay College 2nd XI v Rangitoto College 3rd XI Girls Hockey Tangaroa College braving the rain for their first netball game of the season Junior Boys competing in the CSA Counties Manukau Zone Cross Country at A&P Showgrounds, Pukekohe Long Bay College v Marist College 1st XI Girls Football
Read MoreParata propelling St Peter’s basketball to new heights
College Sport Media: The growing appetite for basketball at St Peter’s College is palpable. “It’s crazy. If you walk around the school at lunchtime everyone is playing basketball – rugby players, hockey players and even the chess boys,” Whititera Parata enthuses. It hasn’t always been that way at the Auckland catholic school. In fact Parata, a member of the First V since Year 9, often played three games a week to prop up other sides. St Peter’s are no longer standing on wobbly ground. Competing in the Premier division for…
Read MoreTaine Murray selected for NBA & FIBA’s Basketball Without Borders Camp
College Sport Media: Rosmini College student Taine Murray has been selected to participate in the 10th Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Asia camp hosted by the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) along with three other young New Zealand players. The camp will be held in Greater Noida, India from 30 May to 2 June, 2018 and will assemble the top players from across the Asian continent. Basketball without Borders Asia is an elite basketball skills camp that draws together the top players aged 17 and under from throughout the…
Read MoreRosmini only unbeaten team after three rounds of Premier Basketball
Lacey Lowdown: The third round of Auckland Secondary Schools Premier basketball competition was played on Monday and with the way results have gone to date it appears to be the most open race for some seasons to claim a top four play-off spot. Only Rosmini College remains unbeaten after pulling away in the second half to beat Avondale College 108-77. Rosmini were led by guard Kruz Perrott-Hunt who tallied 34 points. Rosmini guard Terrence Abdon scored the first five points of game followed by a brace from Taine Murray making…
Read MoreDominic Overend – going faster, longer
College Sport Media: “My love of the 200 has drawn me back towards it. I’ve only ran it twice competitively in the last year, but my world ranking is better in the 200 metres than it is the 100 metres,” Dominic Overend explains of his sudden focus on 200 metres sprinting. Last year an overgrown bone in the right heel led to surgery and a temporary abandonment of the 200 metres following difficulty turning around the bend. In March, Overend’s greater concentration on the 100 metres resulted in him running…
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Long Bay College v Orewa College 1st XI Boys Hockey Dilworth School 1st XV with their mums celebrating Mother’s Day Mt Albert Grammar School v Avondale College 1st XI Boys Football Selwyn College Junior Girls Basketball Team Long Bay College v Rangitoto College Premier Netball
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