Milly Mackey played for a invitation Barbarians team in the Hurricanes sevens tournament in Masterton at the end of last month. Not only did she lead the team to the final (they lost to strong Manakura side ) but she was one of seven from her team named in the tournament team. Congratulations Milly.
Celebration of Sport Videos now available
Head to the Newlands College publicity page on Youtube to see the Intro video and Major Awards Video from the recent Celebration of Sport.
College Sport Wellington Awards Evening
Last night was the College Sport Wellington Awards evening. We were fortunate to have 7 finalists but unfortunately did not receive any winners medals with some very strong competition. The finalists were: Jane-Edna Bryce – Girls Rugby Liam Collins – Service to school sport & Student Official Christian Cowan – AWD Athlete of the Year […]
Ex-student in NZ record Cricket stand
Luke Woodcock was part of NZ Crickets biggest ever first wicket batting partnership as he and Michael Papps scored 432 in reply to Auckland’s 62 in the first Plunket Shield game of the season. This was also the biggest ever partnership in Wellington Cricket history. Luke scored 151 which would have been the biggest news […]
Edgecombe scores century in first game of the season
Fresh from his Indoor Cricket success in the holidays and achievements at the recent Celebration of Sport, Reece Edgecombe was probably feeling quite happy when he went out to bat for the first time this season against Scots College 2nd XI. Reece then scored 116 N/O, took 4 wickets and 2 catches as Newlands took […]
Indoor Cricket Success
Over the recent holidays 3 students were involved in the Indoor Cricket Nationals. Matt Nel was in the U16 Wellington team that won and was selected into the NZ U16 training squad for next year’s Junior World Series in Christchurch. They will select the final team at next year’s nationals also to be held in […]
Celebration of Sport 2017
Thursday 19 October saw a full capacity crowd in attendance for the Newlands College Celebration of Sport 2017. The audience were treated to great/questionable music by Mr Milmine, excellent videos by Mr Mortensen and great MCing by Ms Mills. The attendees were fortunate to get to hear from guest speaker, Claire Kersten, Silver Fern #168 […]
Girls make rep rugby debuts
On Saturday the school had 2 students make their Representative Rugby debuts at U18 and Senior level respectively: Milly Mackey (Y11) started at half back for Wellington U18 girls v Tasman win to Wellington 112-0. Jane-Edna Bryce (Y13) made her debut on the wing for the Wellington Pride and scored a try but lost to Manawatu […]
Claire Kersten – Silver Fern #168
Congratulations to Ms Kersten who was called into the Silver Ferns Squad at lunchtime on Friday and made her debut in the game against England on Sunday. From all accounts she did herself justice and we look forward to her getting another chance in the next game. See the NZ Herald and Scoop article about her […]
Good luck to teams involved in Tournament Week
Today is the first day of Winter Tournament Week, Yesterday our Netball team travelled to New Plymouth for the Lower North Island Tournament and our Mixed Hockey team travelled to Taupo for the North Island Mixed Hockey Tournament. Our Girls Football team have only had to travel within Wellington for the Grant Jarvis Tournament. We […]