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Summer tournament success
The Year 10 team celebrates a wicket at the New Zealand Schools Junior Cricket Championships.
St Andrew’s students achieved more impressive results, including three national titles, when they competed in seven different sports during Summer Tournament Week.
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National mixed tennis champions. Nicholas Jenkins, Jamie Garbett, Edward Batt, Vera Goesmann, Lily Bray and Holly Matson. Huge congratulations to the mixed tennis team which has become New Zealand Schools Mixed Tennis champions for an incredible sixth time out of the last 11 years. Our Maadi Cup rowing squad also enjoyed outstanding success, winning a gold, two silvers and a bronze medal at the national regatta. See page 48 for details. Angus Syme (Year 12) also became a national champion after winning the Boys’ U19 race at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Open Water Swimming Championships, a fantastic achievement. Another significant individual result was Ari Graham (Year 13) placing second in the Senior Girls’ U19 race at the National Secondary Schools Triathlon Championships. The Year 10 cricketers also performed with merit, finishing second in the New Zealand Schools Junior Cricket Finals, the first time they have qualified for this six-team national event. Our volleyball, futsal and sailing teams also enjoyed strong competition during their Summer Tournament Week events, with our senior boys placing fifteenth at the national championships and the senior girls thirteenth after a series of close run games. The junior boys were unplaced, as places are only given to the top four in this grade. These relatively young teams all showed a great deal of potential. The College sailing team performed well to placed seventh out of 12 crews in the first round robin at the South Island Sailing regatta in Nelson. On the second day of competition the team competed in the silver fleet, with no wind eventually cutting the regatta short. The St Andrew’s sailors finished eleventh overall, which was a good effort, considering it was the first time in recent memory the College had competed in the sport. Parent liaison Piet Nel said the young team had “good fun in very nice weather”, and are keen to improve on their record next year.
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Mixed Tennis The mixed tennis team was in a tough pool at the New Zealand Schools Mixed Tennis Championships in Auckland, and played a ‘very tough’ semi-final. However, being stretched early in the tournament set up the team for a comfortable 8–0 win over St Kentigern College in the final, says coach Hamish Faulls. “They are a great team with superb depth, that trained well up to the event and put it all into practice on the court. All players competed in all ties, in either singles or doubles. It was a massive effort.”
Hamish gives special thanks to team manager Jo Bigford-Fleming, whose organisation and cooking kept the team well fed and worry free, to enable them to concentrate on the job at hand. “We are also proud of Vera Goesmann (Year 11) who won the Sportswomanship Award for the tournament. This is a great individual achievement, which also highlights the spirit of the team and how popular our students are with the other teams at the event.” Triathlon/Aquathlon The final day of action at the Calder Stewart National Schools Triathlon Championships saw our athletes competing at Lake Hayes in the Open Water Swim and Aquathlon National Championships. In the Open Water Swim competition, Angus Syme (Year 12) was the standout performer winning the Boys’ U19 race to become national champion. Quinton Hurley (Year 11) also performed extremely well to place second in the Boys’ U16 race with Bryn Rumble (Year 10) finishing a creditable fifth in the same event.
In the Aquathlon swim/run event, Ari Graham (Year 13) continued her fantastic form in multiple disciplines this season to take second place in the Senior Girls’ U19 race, with Saxon Morgan (Year 11) performing well to finish third in the Boys’ U16 event. Cricket The Year 10 cricket team finished strongly with three wins to place a highly creditable second in the New Zealand Schools Junior Cricket

The Year 10 cricket team had a fantastic national tournament, finishing second. National title holder Angus Syme.

Championships. The team played five 20 over matches in the roundrobin tournament, losing their first match to eventual winners Auckland Grammar School, then having a narrow loss to Hamilton Boys’ High School, before they hit top form to beat Hutt International Boys' School, John McGlashan College, and New Plymouth Boys’ High School. Coach Mike Johnston says it was a ‘great effort’ with all the boys contributing and playing well as a team. “The players fielded exceptionally well, which definitely won us a couple of games.” Standout players included all-rounder Jesse Frew, who had a great tournament with the ball and bat, scoring the second-highest number of runs at the tournament, and being the second top wicket taker with 13 wickets. Rhys Mariu and Thomas McKay also had excellent form with the bat. The team qualified to represent Canterbury at the national tournament after beating Christ’s College, Timaru Boys’ High School and then Christchurch Boys’ High School in the regional final, which was a “huge effort, and very unexpected," says Mike. “We are very proud of the team’s achievements.”
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