On Tuesday 26th March we held out Athletics Champs at Mt Smart Stadium. We had over 700 athletes compete vying for those podium finishes across 80 schools. Congratulation to all involved & to the schools with their help on duties. Results can be found Track & Field Photos can be found here
Read MoreCategory: Athletics
Athletics North Harbour & Pole Vault
On the 6th of March we held the last of our Athletics zones at AUT Millenium, North Shore. We had a great turn out of over 400 participants across 20+ schools. Thank you to all those invovled to help deliver such a wide scale event! We look forward to seeing those who qualified for Auckland Champs on the 26th of March at Mt Smart Stadium. Photos can be found here Results can be found for Track & Field
Read MoreAthletics Central East & West
On the 5ht of March we held the second of our Athletics Zone at Mount Smart We had a great turn out of over 700 participants across 40+ schools making it our biggest Zone. Thank you to all those invovled to help deliver such a wide scale event! We look forward to seeing those who qualified for Auckland Champs on the 26th of March at Mt Smart Stadium. Photos can be found here Results can be found for Track & Field
Read MoreAthletics Counties Manukau
On the 29th of February we held the first of our Athletics Zone at Massey Park, Papakura. We had a great turn out of over 400 participants across 20+ schools. Thank you to all those invovled to help deliver such a wide scale event! We look forward to seeing those who qualified for Auckland Champs on the 26th of March at Mt Smart Stadium. Photos can be found here Results can be found for Track & Field
Read MoreAthletics Championships 2023
Over seven hundred students attended the Auckland Athletics Championships at Trust Stadium, Waitakere in the final week of term 1. Students competed throughout the day in the one hundred and nine track and field events from the 2000m walk to the 4 x 400m relays. A full list of results can be found here
Read MoreYoung Violette has her pick of Ivy League Schools
Promising Kiwi thrower and water polo player Violette Perry is bound for one of the world’s most famous universities to further her sporting pursuits and her passion for engineering. Yale, Harvard or Princeton? These were just some of the ivy league schools courting Violette Perry for 2021. The dual New Zealand youth representative, in water polo and athletics, is a great example of how you can go the distance in both sport and study. Perry, who’s of European-Maori descent, was born in Thailand, moved to Christchurch at age eight with her family, and spent the…
Read MoreTeen bolts into Muslim women’s global powerlist
LockerRoom: At just 14, Aysha Hussan has already achieved so much, as the New Zealand face on the global Muslim women’s sports powerlist for 2020. A promising track athlete and netballer, Hussan says she knows it’s “a big achievement” to be on the list with 34 other Muslim women involved in sport around the world. The teenager sits proudly alongside 400m hurdles Olympic champion American Dalilah Muhammad, and Indonesian climber Aries Susanti, the first woman in the world to climb a speed wall in under seven seconds. Then there’s Emirati…
Read MoreStudent Spotlight: Jaden Movold
Year 12 Rangitoto College student Jaden Movold has always loved competing in sports, but it wasn’t until a year ago that he found a new passion in wheelchair racing. During lockdown, Jaden got up at 12.30am to be a part of a virtual Boston Marathon through Zoom with World and Paralympic Wheelchair Racing champions from all over the world. He got to meet his idols and pushed for 1 hour 18 minutes and 4 seconds (the current Boston record time), with over 60 other racers. He pushed for over 21 kms…
Read MorePursuing all-round excellence – Jaden Movold
Channel Magazine: AIMES Winner Q & A: Jaden Movold In 2015 Jaden Movold won the AIMES Junior Excellence Award for Services to the Community. As part of [Channel’s] feature looking at what has happened to a number of past winners, Christine Young caught up with Jaden and what he’s achieved over the past few years – as well as what his ambitions are for the future. Christine Young: What excites you about the many activities it is you are involved in and in particular those where you contribute in some…
Read MoreIt’s cool to throw like a girl
Newsroom: The connotations of “throwing like a girl” are a long distance away from what they used to be. In 2019, that girl is strong, powerful and not afraid to take on the world. She is a young woman like world junior shot put champion Maddison Wesche, or Commonwealth Games hammer throw gold medallist Julia Ratcliffe. To ensure there are more girls like them, Athletics New Zealand have launched their #ThrowLikeAGirl initiative – to embrace all those qualities and encourage more young women to try throwing. Led by highly successful…
Read More