Sports Highlights
S N O W S P O RT S Year 13 student Mikayla Smyth’s hard work paid off with her selection to the NZ Junior World Youth team for the world championships this year. Mikayla is the current NZ champion in alpine ski racing and has trained hard over our summer in North America. She was the only female ski racer to make the team. Snowsports NZ have also confirmed her selection into the NZ Alpine development squad for the 2022/2023 season. Back at school, Mikayla is also part of the Senior School Sports Committee and recently placed 2nd in the school Cross Country Championships.
FENCING Under the expert coaching and guidance of Junior School PE teacher Judit Fliszar, Kristin Fencing has been a leading contender at all school Fencing competitions. Already this year our two top fencers – Year 13’s Azaria Eddy and Leo Zhou – have competed at the National level. Both placed 3rd at the Waitangi Day Open Championship in Wellington in February. Both Azaria and Leo have been selected to represent New Zealand at the Commonwealth Championships in London. The Foil discipline is their main event and both have been involved in promoting the Kristin Fencing programme throughout the school. Azaria and Leo will this year spearhead our senior teams as they once again compete for the spoils in Auckland and NZ School Fencing championships later this year.
SWIMMING Year 13 student Rebecca Wilkins has had a memorable summer Swimming season despite the disruptions. Her 3rd place in her favoured event, the breaststroke, and personal bests at the NZ Open championships confirmed her selection in the NZ Junior Pan Pacific team to compete in Hawaii. Rebecca is a proactive member of the Senior School Sports Committee and won all her races at the Kristin Swimming Championships.
FINN BURRIDGE The 2022 Kristin Sports Prefect has been leading from the front across a variety of sports, including Athletics, Tennis, Hockey and Cross Country. He led the Kristin Premier Tennis team to 5th place in the top Auckland Schools Boys competition. He teamed up with Robbie King to be runners-up in the Champion-of-Champions tournament in doubles, and in the singles, he just missed qualifying for the final. In Athletics, he threw the javelin at a personal-best distance of over 51m and won the Auckland Secondary School Senior Boys title. He placed 3rd in the NZ U18 Pole Vault. Then in the last week of the term, he won the school Cross Country race for the senior Year 13 group. Finn is also in the North Harbour U18 A Hockey team.
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YAC H T I N G Mattias Coutts (Year 12) helmed the Kristin boat in the Harken Schools Keelboat Regatta and, along with fellow Kristin Year 12 crew members Sam Elworthy, Kelian Landry, Tom Rebbeck and Ashton Williamson, qualified first on day one. On finals day the Kristin team finished 3rd overall in what was the most competitive regatta against the best in New Zealand. The boys were delighted to have Sir Russell Coutts coach them prior to and during the regatta and all are looking forward to the 2023 event.
