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Mitchelson House took out top honours on Athletics Day.

ATHLETICS DAY

We were delighted to actually be able to hold our annual Athletics Day in Term 1! The first full school event of the year, complete with food trucks, coffee and smoothie carts, it brought home to us how we have missed the energised atmosphere driven by Dio students and their House spirit! It was great to see many parent supporters in the stands – a special thank you to all those who helped with transport. A huge thank you too to all the staff who assisted on the day in so many ways.

We saw a total of seven school records broken; a phenomenal achievement as the girls emerged from the pandemic issues of the last two years.They were: Hannah McManus – Junior javelin and Junior 800m, Jacqui Nasrabadi – Junior triple jump, Junior 200m and 400m, Indie Williams – Year 8 1500m, and Maddie Kelso-Heap – Senior 400m.

At the end of the day, it was Mitchelson that took top honours, leading in House points over Neligan.

Our athletics winners for 2022 were:

Year 7: 1st Charlotte Waite, 2nd Isabella Turner, 3rd= Yasmin De Spong and Grace Larsen Year 8: 1st Indie Williams, 2nd Addison Hewlett, 3rd Emily Keene Junior: 1st Jacqui Nasrabadi, 2nd Hannah McManus, 3rd Sophia Haines Intermediate: 1st = Chloe Luo and Amy Shennan, 3rd Iris Tooman Senior: 1st Maddie Kelso-Heap, 2nd Lucy Shennan, 3rd Amelia Brawn

Charlotte Waite

Hannah McManus

Ms McRae getting into the spirit of the day with Neligan supporters! Amy Shennan Chloe Luo

Maddie Kelso-Heap

Neligan House was runner-up to Mitchelson at the end of the day’s events

CROSS COUNTRY

Congratulations to all Diocesan students who ran in this year’s cross country, held at Diocesan on Friday 6 May. A course change from previous years allowed students to run on all sorts of terrain. The day provided us with some seriously fast running as well as an electric energy from all students. We were delighted to get a fun day under our belts to start off Term 2 and, more importantly, to see the students’ camaraderie across all year levels.

Junior winners (L-R) – Sophia Haines 2nd, Hannah McManus 1st, Sophie Pearce 3rd

Year 7 winners (L-R) – Luisa Haines 3rd, Grace Larsen 1st, Chloe Ulmer 2nd Intermediate winners (L-R) – Imogen Worrall 2nd, Amy Stafford 1st, Chloe Luo and Molly Sherrard 3rd

Year 8 winners (L-R) – Maddie Worrall 2nd, Indie Williams 1st, Tessa Lepionka 3rd Senior winners (L-R) – Lucy Russ 2nd, Amelia Green 1st, Anei Todd 3rd

2022 Swimming Sports champions (L-R): Frankie Dodunski, Queenie Lang, Abby Welsh, Hannah Tse, Millie Quin, Eva Allan, Alex Campion, Indie Williams, Grace Jeromson, Arabella Duncan, Hollie Lawson, Anna Lepua, Sophia Ng, Celest Vo, Chanelle Huang.

Swimming sports

Our annual Swimming Sports took place on 11 February in the Diocesan Aquatic Centre. The event ran slightly differently this year due to COVID restrictions, which meant we only held competitive events. The day saw Diocesan’s top swimmers competing for the podium across all age groups with a few new faces added into the mix. For the first time, our Year 7s and 8s competed at the same time as the Years 9-13 age groups and it was amazing to see all our top swimmers competing one after the other.

Our Years 9-13 age group did not disappoint with some of New Zealand’s top swimmers competing. While the event may not have had the colour of weird and wonderful costumes, banners and the loud support of House chants, a great day of competition and fun was clearly enjoyed by the girls. Congratulations to all those who competed in the 2022 Swimming Sports. The results were:

Year 7

1st Chanelle Huang 2nd Sophia Ng 3rd Queenie Lang

Year 8

1st Indie Williams 2nd Hannah Tse 3rd Hollie Lawson

Junior

1st = Grace Jeromson and Frankie Dodunski 3rd Celeste Vo

Intermediate

1st Alex Campion 2nd Kara Chan 3rd Abby Welsh and Arabella Duncan

Senior

1st Eva Allan 2nd Millie Quin 3rd Anna Lepua

Champion of Champions

Alex Campion

Mary Pulling won the House Swimming Cup for 2022 with a runaway victory of 396 points over second-placed Eliza Edwards (220 points) and third-placed Cowie (219 points)!