ROWING

squad made 10 ‘A’ finals and five ‘B’ finals over the first couple of days of racing. They followed up their performances on finals day, winning six medals across three age groups – one of the highlights being our two Novice Eight boats placing second and third and sharing the podium with each other!

Our medallists were:

Silver: U-18 Novice Coxed Eight, U-17 Coxed Eight and U-18 Novice Coxed Four Bronze: U-18 Novice Coxed Eight, U-17 Coxed Quadruple Sculls and U-15 Coxed Eight

Athletics

Jennian Homes New Zealand Track and Field Championship

Five Dio students represented Auckland at the 2023 New Zealand Track and Field Championships in early March, competing to win national titles and achieving some amazing results. This was the first year the U-16 category was included in the event.

Amy Shennan (W18): 6th – 800m, bronze – 4x400 relay

Jacqui Nasrabadi (W16): gold – long jump and 4x100 relay (record), bronze – triple jump and 200m, 5th – 100m

Hannah McManus (W16): silver –4x400 relay, 7th – 800m, 9th – 400m

Indie Williams (W16): 4th – 1500m

Scarlett Gwin (W16): gold – 4x400 relay, 9th – 800m, 10th – 1500m, 11th –high jump

North Island Athletics Championships

Again representing Auckland, the Dio athletes performed incredibly well at the North Island Championships.

Amy Shennan ran in the gold-winning Auckland 4x100m relay team and the 4x400m relay that placed second.

Hannah McManus’s outstanding season form continued – she won silver in the Junior javelin and the individual 800m and was in the third-placed Auckland relay team. Indie Williams won gold in the 1500m at her first North Island event. Jacqui Nasrabadi won the Intermediate long jump, came second in the 100m, and ran in the gold-winning 4x100m relay team.

Auckland Championships Athletics Day

On 5 April, 10 Dio athletes competed in the Auckland Championships at the Trusts Stadium and achieved some amazing results.

Amy Shennan: bronze – 400m, silver –4x400m

Chloe Luo: silver – triple jump, bronze – long jump

Hannah McManus: gold – 800m and javelin, silver – 4x400m

Indie Williams: gold – 3000m and 1500m, silver – 4x400m

Maddie Worrall: silver – 3000m

Scarlett Gwin: silver – 4x400m, bronze – 800m

Sina-Maria Su’a: gold – shot put and discus

Dio rowing also had great results at the Head of the Harbour regatta at Lake Pupuke, winning the Top Girls’ School trophy for the third year in a row. We had a number of medals across Division 1 and Division 2.

Gold: U-18 Novice Eight, U-17 Coxed Quadruple Sculls, U-16 Coxed Eight, Imogen Worrall – U-17 Single Sculls, U-15 Octuple Sculls and U-17 Coxed Eight

Silver: U-16 Coxed Four

Bronze: U-17 Coxed Four, U-16 Coxed Quadruple Sculls, U-16 Coxed Four and U-18 Novice Coxed Four

Orienteering

From 21 – 23 April, 16 Dio orienteers competed at the North Island Secondary Schools’ Orienteering Championships, working hard under complex conditions.

Year 7 and 8 Girls’ Standard: Maya Zurflueh – 2nd

Junior Girls: Lucy Forman, Mila Walsh, Cerys Findlow – 2nd

Fencing

On 26 March, the first of the secondary schools’ fencing competitions, the Northern Secondary Schools’ Individual Competition, was held at Te Pai Event Centre at Waitakere.

Dio had four fencers in the competition: Wendy Xie, Vanessa Huang, Joanna Chen and Alice Sharpe (code captain). Alice won silver at this competition, and Vanessa Huang won bronze at the Auckland Championships.

Equestrian

Our equestrian team competed in the Secondary School Show Jumping Pegasus Cup at Takapoto Estate, with the following results:

Coco Fougere: 3rd – 1m 2 phase

Victoria Boot: 2nd – 1.10m accumulator

Georgie Wilson: 3rd – Best-performed thoroughbred

Triathlon

Nineteen Diocesan students competed at the Triathlon Championships at Maraetai Beach. They included two teams and six individuals in the U-14 age group and two teams and an individual in the U-16s. The girls represented Dio impeccably and achieved some excellent results.

Taekwondo

On Saturday 1 April, the Diocesan taekwondo team joined competitors from the Oceania region at the prestigious Auckland Open International Martial Arts Championships.

Grace Umezaki (Yr 7): gold – taekwondo patterns

Cody Young (Yr 7): silver – patterns

Nina Jensen (Yr 7): silver – patterns and tricking, bronze – special technique

Selena Liu (Yr 5): gold – kickboxing, bronze –patterns and taekwondo sparring

Sailing

U-14: Indie Williams – 1st individual; Maddie Worrall – 2nd individual; Henrietta Yarrell Stevenson, Mika James and Luisa Haines – 2nd team; Charli Manks, Pippa Forman and Amara Prasad – 3rd team

U-16: Molly Sherrard – 4th individual; Celest Vo, Lily James and Sophia Haines – 1st team; Sienna Hirst, Abby Welsh and Sophie O’Leary – 2nd team