This year the college decided that the best opportunity for our senior touch teams to have success was to enter our top players into the mixed competition at regionals. On a glorious day in the sun, Newlands convincingly beat Taita 11 – 3, before drawing with Paraparaumu 7 all.. At the end of pool play, […]

As a result of their recent NZ u16 Basketball Koru Tour performances, Natasha, Dalen and Tearii Pilitati (Y11) have been invited to attend the NZ u16 Basketball Selection Camp which is being held Feb 21st through to Feb 24th. Good luck to the girls

Newlands were victorious in the 2 games of cricket that took place at the weekend. In the 1st XI game versus St Pats, Silverstream 2nd XI, the opposition were bowled out for 181 with Alex Chafe taking 3 – 25 and in reply Tahana Firmin (79) and Pasan Pahalawatt (66 n/o) steered Newlands to a […]

Luke Woodcock (2000) was part of the Wellington Firebirds side that lost in the HRV 2020 Cricket final. Coming into bat at 54-6 Woodcock topscored with 40 as Wellington eventually made 144. Unfortunately the Otago Volts managed to chase this down so Wellington will have to wait another year to try and claim their maiden […]

Two former students were standout performers in the recent U19 National Softball Tournament. Jasmin Kaiaruna (2011) and Emma Francis (2012) were part of the successful Wellington team that won the event. Alongside this they were named in the tournament team with Jasmin being named top pitcher and Emma taking out the top catcher, pitcher and overall tournament […]

Congratulations to Rose-Ann Rikihana, Marcelle Parkes and Frazer McLaren who were recognised for their abilities by being named in tournament teams at recent representative Softball Championships whilst representing Wellington. Rose-Ann also picked up a winners medal in the U15 North Island tournament whilst Marcelle and Frazer finished 4th in their respective U17 National tournaments.

Kurtis Imrie won a bronze in Kayaking at the recent Australian Youth Olympic Festival (over 1700 competitors from 30 countries). Being 16 he was pretty young to be involved and did extremely well to gain a bronze in the ‘head to head’ category. As you will see from the article below he did not get […]

Videos from the night can be found on the Newlands College Youtube Page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkt-AQFxpU4&feature=youtu.be

The Celebration of Sport 2012 event takes place on Wednesday 24 October. The attached document shows who has won an award. If you wish to purchase a ticket they cost $15 and can be bought from the bursar. Ticket sales close off on Friday 28 September. Click on this link to find out the winners: […]