College Sport Media: In June 2016, Ben Gardner returned home from school with a badly swollen knee. No strenuous physical activity or unusual symptoms had signalled this aliment could occur, but it was serious. “I went to the doctor straight away and was diagnosed with Osteochondritis Dissecans of the Knee or OCD. Don’t ask me how to spell that, but basically the cartilage underneath my knee cap was separating,” the Year 12 student at Sacred Heart College, Auckland recalls. A knee brace was attached and the prospects of resuming water polo were bleak. “My rehabilitation took…
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15-year-old Tainui swimmer guns for Youth Olympics
Māori Television: 15-year-old Gold Heart Scholarship recipient Tyron Henare is a stroke closer to pursuing his Youth Olympic dreams for swimming. In July the six-time National gold medallist will put his skills to the test against the country’s best at the 2018 Opens in the hopes to qualify. Tyron Henry is currently New Zealand’s top sprint swimmer for freestyle, backstroke and fly in his age group. He now looks to qualify for 2018 Youth Olympics in the hopes to make his mark on the world stage. Henry says “My short term goal for this year…
Read MoreMAGS softballers keeping it in the family
College Sport Media: Three title wins in four days – it doesn’t get much better than that for a group of Mount Albert Grammar School softballers. Isaac Munro, one of five players in the MAGS team that won their sixth straight NZSS Division 1 title who also made the tournament team, explains their recent winning week on the diamond: “Last Friday we won the NZSS tournament in Lower Hutt and then we flew home and a lot of us joined our club Ramblers in winning the Auckland club U17 and…
Read MoreCollege Sport Auckland Photos of the Week
We’ve put together some photos from the past week showcasing our member schools in action at various College Sport Auckland competitions. If you have any recent photos you’d like to share, please send them to school.sport@collegesport.co.nz or tag us on Facebook.
Read MorePro-Golfer in the making at Lynfield College
Representing Lynfield College at the College Sport Auckland Golf Strokeplay Championships, Miree Jung blitzed her opposition which means her name is now engraved on the same trophy won by her golfing idol, Lydia Ko – a fantastic and exciting achievement. Miree plays off a handicap of +1, and had the same person been allowed to win the Handicap Championship, she would have won that too! She is the second Lynfield College student to have won this title following Shantael Ligaliga’s win in 2013. A year ago, 14-year-old Miree decided to jump…
Read MorePukekohe High School wins opening game in college 1st XV competition
AucklandNOW: Pukekohe High School and Alfriston College opened the first round of the Rainbow’s End Counties Manukau and Waikato Secondary School 1st XV College competition. Both teams came out attacking, but it was Pukekohe High School who took their opportunities in a 39-26 win at Alfriston College. Pukekohe High School winger Patrick Butters opened the scoring with a penalty kick. Winger Bayley Tucker then finished off an impressive period of attacking play to score one of the two tries he scored in the match. Their team was also lead well throughout the game by promising first-five Caleb Hill. Click here to read more…
Read MoreMAGS ‘Robbed’ in Overtime
Lacey Lowdown: There were four good games in the third round of the Auckland Secondary Schools Boys Premier grade but none could match the finish at St Kentigern College. Mt Albert Grammar were Robb-ed of victory against St Kent’s as Kyle Robb scored the last five points of the game to clinch an exciting 68-66 overtime victory. With St Kent’s trailing 66-63 Robb banked a triple then was fouled after garnering a steal with 8 seconds left to play. He then showed a cool head by making the resulting free-throws…
Read MoreHeart beats size in Harbour First XV action
NZ Herald: Takapuna Grammar have made a 2-0 winning start to the North Harbour 1A competition, and certainly turned heads on Saturday with their 27-22 home win over Massey. It was all the more meritorious because they had to draw on some deep reserves of defensive commitment to repel the considerably bigger Massey team, which scored four tries to two. Man of the match, Takapuna Grammar No 10 Oscar Koller, contributed no less than 22 points from six goals and a try. Koller’s try came from a scrum going left…
Read MoreRunning Against The Odds
College Sport Media: “My body was tight. My hamstring tore slightly and I had to take five weeks off,” James Guthrie-Croft laments of his experience at the National Secondary Schools Athletics Championships in December. In the semi-finals of the 100m Guthrie-Croft ran a quicker time than eventual champion Nick Smith, but was forced to withdraw from the decider. “It would have been an interesting race. Nick ran a great final so who knows if I would have won, but it was disappointing to miss out.” Guthrie-Croft admits. The misfortune of…
Read MoreSouthern Cross Campus 1st XIII off to a winning start
Manukau Courier: An Auckland College Rugby League premiership is the prize Rod Ratu wants ticketed off his bucket list. It’s the one piece of silverware Ratu and his Southern Cross Campus 1st XIII need to make them complete. They already have a national secondary school title in the bag, a premiership they won when they beat Kelston Boys’ High School 16-12 in last year’s grand final at Pulman Park, Papakura. But it’s the Auckland championship, which has been dominated by St Paul’s College and of late, Kelston, which is proving so elusive. Read more…
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