Congratulations go to 3 of our cricketers who have been involved in Indoor Cricket over the Winter and have subsequently been selected for the National Tournament that will take place over the October holidays (11th and 12th). Matthew Nel (Y9) made it into the Wellington U16 team and Matt Cottle and Reece Edgecombe into the U18 […]
Jane-Edna Bryce named in Wellington Pride Rugby team
Congratulations to Jane-Edna Bryce (Y13) who received a late 18th birthday present as she was named in the senior women’s Wellington rugby squad. Below is the media release from Wellington Rugby: Former Black Fern Jackie Patea-Fereti will lead the Wellington Pride into the Farah Palmer Cup after being named captain of the 2017 squad. The Wainuiomata […]
USA Basketball Tour Raffle Results
Thank you to those people who bought raffle tickets to help the fundraising for the 2018 USA Basketball trip. The raffle was drawn on 30 August and the following people were winners: The Winners are Pamper Pack : Alex Genet Outdoor Pack : Amy Chen Kids Pack : Paul Widdowson Food Pack : Chris Schofield Winners have been contacted, […]
Badminton Teams success at Regionals
Last Friday 3 Newlands teams were involved in the Regional Finals. Our Premier Boys took on Hutt Valley and lost a very close game 4-3 but had an excellent season in what was their first taste of Premiership action. In the Senior Girls Division 1, Newlands 1 took on Wellington East in the semi final […]
Liam Collins named as a regional basketball ref
Congratulations to Liam Collins (Y13) who has been selected for the 2017 Schick Championship (National Secondary Schools Championship) refereeing panel for tournament week. He was also selected for the Aon U15 National Championship refereeing panel that were held in the second week of the last school holidays in Dunedin.
Table Tennis Success
Our Table Tennis players have been busy over the last few weeks competing in the Singles and Team Championships and there has been alot to celebrate! INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP In the Senior Boys Singles event we had winners in 3 divisions: Ben Meyer (Division 1), Reece Edgecombe (Division 2) and Max Pearce (Division 3A) whilst at […]
Ms Kersten makes NZ Netball Development Squad
Congratulations to Ms Kersten who got the chance to trial for the Silver Ferns and has subsequently been named in the Development Squad with the potential to be called up for Silver Ferns duty during the season. Click here for the Netball NZ article on the team naming. There was more good news for Ms […]
Victoria Green makes Athletics Wellington Development Squad
Congratulations to Victoria Green who has been named as part of the 2017 intake of 19 athletes for the Athletics Wellington Athlete Development (AWAD) squad. According to Athletics Wellington: This year the focus is on potential and continual improvement, not just whether you have made a performance standard. The athletics side of the Sports Wellington Talent […]
Students named in rep rugby teams
Congratulations to Caleb Cummings, Milly Mackey and Jane-Edna Bryce who have all been recently named in representative rugby teams. Caleb has made the U16 Development Squad whilst both Milly and Jane-Edna have been named in the U18 Wellington Wider Training Squad (click here for the Wellington Rugby article). Jane-Edna has also been named in the 50 […]
Ex student wins World Men’s Softball Championship Title
Congratulations to ex-student Josh Pettett who was the starting pitcher for the Black Sox in their World Championship Softball final against Australia today. Likewise congratulations to Grayson Sorenson’s (Y13) dad Mark who became the second Kiwi to win the World Championship as a player and coach. The team won 6-4 and this was their 7th […]