Athletics

Athletics for our Years 9 to 13 students at Kristin School has been in full swing since February. Our inclusion of a competitive evening for these students was unfortunately halted due to an Auckland COVID-19 lockdown, but it certainly didn’t stop us from sending 42 students to represent us at the North Harbour Championships held at AUT Millennium on 16 March. From this event we had 66 top-10 finishes, and of those 16 were podium finishes.

Also from this event 16 individual students and two relay teams qualified to represent our school at the Auckland Championships. On what was a particularly ‘ugly weather’ day for Athletics we headed along to Auckland Championships on 30 March. From this event we had 18 top-10 finishes, with 5 podium finishes.

To round out the summer months, Kristin was fortunate enough to have eight athletes represent North Harbour at the Secondary School North Island Athletics Championships hosted in Hamilton on 10 and 11 April. They were: Bree Ackland, Finn Burridge, Maya Grundy, Pippa Plummer, Lily Rushworth, Josh Schmidt and Jack Turner. A special congratulations to all these athletes, who broke many personal bests, and to Maya for placing 2nd in the Pole Vault.

Term 4 will see our Year 7 and 8 students in full swing, and it will see our best Years 9 to 13 students represent Kristin at the National Secondary Schools Athletics Championships on 3-5 December at TET Stadium in Inglewood, Taranaki. Watch this space!

Simone Small

TEACHER IN CHARGE – ATHLETICS

Maya Grundy Pippa Plummer