Sport

SENIOR SCHOOL Sport

Senior School Athletics Champions

Year 7 Champions

1st = Scarlett Robb and Zari Lindsay 3rd Jetta McKenzie

Year 8 Champions

1st Francesca Wright 2nd = Samantha Bradley and Grace Meredith

Junior Champions

1st Charlotte Goldsmith 2nd Lily Allen 3rd Zara Ford

Intermediate Champions

1st Olivia Power 2nd Sonya Ha 3rd Abbey Moody

Senior Champions

1st = Isabel Allen and Peyton Leigh 3rd Violette Perry

Athletics

Charlotte Goldsmith broke two College Sport records at the AKSS Central Zone Athletics Champs in Triple Jump and Long Jump; Charlotte also won the Junior Girls' 100m and Junior Girls' 200m. Sophie Robb won the Junior Girls' 1500m and 3000m. Lily Allen was 2nd in the Junior Girls' 200m and 300m. Sonya Ha placed 1st in the Intermediate Girls' Long Jump, 2nd in the intermediate Girls' 100m and 2nd in the Intermediate Girls' 200m. Olivia Power placed 1st in the Intermediate Girls' High Jump and 3rd in the intermediate Girls' Long jump, while Katherine Fanelli placed 1st in the intermediate Girls' 80m Hurdles and 2nd in the intermediate Girls' Triple jump. Abbey Moody placed 1st in the Intermediate Girls' Javelin and 2nd in the intermediate Girls' discus. Violette Perry won the intermediate Girls' Discus, Shotput and Javelin events. Bella Browne was 2nd place in the Senior Women’s 1500m and Chloe Browne 3rd place in the Senior Women’s 1500m. Isabel Allen won the 100m, 200m and 400m Senior Girls' races. Sonya Ha, Isabel Allen, Hannah Stewart and Ella Greenwood came 1st in the Senior Girls' 4x100m Relay. Olivia Power, Peyton Leigh, Chloe Browne and Isabel Allen came 1st in the Open Girls' 4x400m relay. At the Year 7 and 8 Central Zone Athletics Champs, Scarlett Robb won the 1500m and 800m for Year 7 Girls. Zari Lindsay placed 2nd in the 200m, 2nd in the 800m and 3rd in the High Jump and Sophie Yeoman placed 2nd in the Discus in the Year 7 Girls' category. Our Year 8 students had some stand out performances as well. Grace Meredith placed 1st in the 1500m and 2nd in the 800m. Samantha Bradley placed 3rd in the 1500m and 1st in the 800m. Nuria Hocken Cubi placed 3rd in the 100m and Jemma Nesdale placed 3rd in the High Jump. Jemma Nesdale, Francesca Wright, Nuria Hocken Cubi and Lois Wolfgramm came 3rd in the Year 8 4x100m relay. These students then went on to attend the Inter-Zone Athletics competition. There was amazing athletes from Auckland and the wider-Auckland region, creating a great experience for our girls to compete against the top schools. Congratulations to Scarlett Robb who achieved 2 fantastic results coming 2nd in both the Year 7 Girls 1500m and 800m.

We had a truly amazing weekend at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Athletics and Road Race Champs, collecting a total of 12 medals across the weekend.

Junior Girls:

Olivia Power: 2nd High Jump Charlotte Goldsmith: 2nd 100m, 2nd Long Jump, 1st Triple Jump

Senior Girls:

Peyton Leigh: 3rd 1500m Chloe Browne: 1st 3000m, 2nd 2000m Steeplechase Bella Browne: 3rd 3000m, 1st 2000m Steeplechase

Relays:

1st Senior Girls 4x100m:

Isabel Allen, Sonya Ha, Lily Allen, Charlotte Goldsmith

3rd Junior Girls 4x400m:

Lily Allen, Olivia Power, Charlotte Greenwood, Zara Ford

1st Senior Girls 4x400m:

Peyton Leigh, Chloe Browne, Bella Browne, Isabel Allen

Badminton

St Cuthbert’s had superb results at the annual Central Zone Badminton Tournament with Helen Liu placing 3rd in the Year 7 Singles and April Li and Yiwen Pan winning the Doubles title. As the winner of the Auckland and New Zealand Under 15 title this year, Lillian Cao was a favourite to win Year 8 Singles, and she didn’t disappoint. Emily Luo placed 2nd in the Year 8 singles, while Chloe Li and Maria Yuan combined to win the Year 8 Doubles Final. Badminton still proves to be a popular sport with 18 teams signing up for the weekly school competition this year. Our school Badminton team won the Northern Region Junior School Badminton tournament held in Tauranga. We won a close final 4-2 against Westlake Girls High School with our star player Lillian Cao anchoring our champion team. As a Year 8 student, plus being the current Auckland and NZ Under 15 champion, she has a big future in this sport. Our other players were Lily Yuan, Jessie Yan, Emily Li (all Year 10’s).

Basketball

We had a total of three Senior teams playing in the Auckland Competition. We had a U15, U17 and U19 teams playing in mid-week games during across Auckland. Our Year 7&8 team gained some pleasing results in their Eastern League games, and had a strong showing at the Year 7&8 Central Zone Day where it gained 7th position.

Cricket

The year was the first time in a while that St Cuthbert’s had a senior Cricket team. The girls started in term 1 and, not knowing their ability, were entered into the 1B Grade. The girls won the grade with ease and so for Term 4 were put into the Open T-20 grade against the best teams in Auckland. The girls trained hard and improved immensely throughout the season. The team ended up beating St Kentigern’s College in the semi-final and playing EGGS in the final. EGGS batted first and our girls fielded well gaining 5 wickets and keeping EGGS to an achievable score of 120 runs. St Cuthbert’s then went into bat with Emma Irwin and Kate Craig opening; the strong bowlers from Epsom Girls proved too fierce dismissing our opening batters within the first couple of overs. The girls fought hard but, at the end of the day, were outclassed by a very strong Epsom team! The girls were still stoked to take away the silver medal and being with a team of mostly year 11s, are looking forward to getting back into it in term 1.

Senior School Cross Country Champions

Year 7 Champions

1st Scarlett Robb 2nd Zari Lindsay 3rd Ellie Siu

Year 8 Champions

1st Grace Meredith 2nd Samantha Bradley 3rd Madeline Vinall

Junior Champions

1st Sophie Robb 2nd Renee Zhang 3rd Hannah Piper

Intermediate Champions

1st Charlotte Greenwood 2nd Jaime Lewis 3rd Zara Stewart

Senior Champions

1st Peyton Leigh 2nd Chloe Browne 3rd Bella Browne

Cycling

Unfortunately most of the cycling calendar was cancelled this year, but Kate Waters was lucky enough to get to compete the Auckland Schools Championship Series at the Pukekohe Car Racing Track in a composite team. This year we had a new coach, Liam Bird who is a semi-professional Triathlete with a wealth of experience. Liam’s passion is to grow confident cyclists from beginners to experienced. We look forward to seeing this sport grow over the coming years.

Senior School Sport (Continued)

Dragon Boating

We had 23 Year 12 and 13 students compete at the Regional Dragon Boating Championships, at Lake Pupuke this year. The team was impressive in its attitude and competitive spirit achieving a Bronze medal in the 500m race. The girls were just out of the medals gaining 4th place by seconds in the 200m race, however the highlight of the day was a Bronze medal in the 2km race, as this was against 12 other schools including boys and mixed teams.

We were very excited about having 6 of our students named in the Auckland Representative squad: Lola Cox, Olivia Haskell, Molly Kaye, Maia Landell-Blair, Sofia Limbrick-Jones, Niamh Orr-Walker.

Duke of Edinburgh

Numbers for Duke of Edinburgh participation are still growing with over 200 St Cuthbert’s students busy working through either their Bronze, Silver or Gold level. Congratulations to all of our Gold Award recipients. 2020 has set the bar high with the largest number of Gold Awards achieved so far.

Equestrian

The highlight of the Equestrian year was the master class day in the art of Show-Jumping from NZ Olympic legend Blyth Tait. Our expert coach, Jacque Williams holds regular training sessions offering specialist advice to our riders in their various disciplines. College competitions are held during the year with the Ribbon Day specifically aimed at Year 7 and 8 riders. The stand out performance for the year was from Charlotte Penny who placed 2nd in the NZ Junior Eventing Championships by gaining top results in her Dressage, Show-Jumping and Cross Country disciplines. Other riders have also had success winning regional competitions where they sometimes compete with adult riders. Congratulations to Morgan Abel-Pattinson, Jessica Sutherland and Sophia Hall.

Football

The Year 7 and 8 team played in the 9-aside league after school, on Wednesdays, during the shortened term 2 season. Many of them have joined the term 4 coaching or are playing futsal to keep improving their skills ready for next year. We were lucky enough to have Mark Thompson and able assistant Callum McKenzie take over the reins of our 1st XI this season. They introduced new training ideas and match tactics, which our girls responded to with renewed confidence and a fresh approach. The highlight of the short season was a gritty away win versus Westlake Girls High School qualifying us for the top 6 playoffs. The team was led by captain Ruby Sussock while we also farewell fellow Year 13 players Jess Bessy and goalkeeper Brianna Hyland.

Futsal

Futsal is a fast-growing sport at St Cuthbert’s as playing numbers have trebled during the year. With just 5 players per team on an indoor court, players need to have quick reactions and be creative. This local school competition is hosted by St Cuthbert’s after-school on Wednesdays.

Gym Sports

The Year 7 and 8 gymnasts had a great year. They practised with coaches from Tristar gym. At the Central Zone Competition, we had some fantastic results. In the Year 7 Individual competition, Samiya Cavney placed 1st. In the open Girls competition Esmee Boyes placed 2nd and in the Year 8 team competition, our girls placed 2nd. The Year 8 team members where Bella Fairbairn, Natalia Wilcox, Libby Jackson and Rebekah Breed.

Hockey

Hockey was strong in Year 7 and Year 8 with four teams participating in their local competition. We saw a huge improvement in their skills over the course of the season, especially with the extra time for training and their lunch-time hitting practices. The girls continued to train rain or shine and constantly showed up for every training sessions despite the season they had. Their positivity to learn, excel and show resilience was truly remarkable. We had 7 teams from Year 9-13 from the U15s right through to our Social 5th XI. The teams got in as many games as they could and improved a lot in the small time they were able to compete. The 1st and 2nd XI teams were lucky enough to play out a full Auckland competition round this year. Both teams qualified for the A1 grade and did amazingly, the 2nd XI came away with the 5th place and our 1st XI won the grade for the sixth year straight. Both teams then got to compete at a tournament in the October holidays with teams from around the Upper North Island. The two teams stayed together and were fortunate to still have a tournament experience, even more special was that we had 13 siblings involved. The 2nd XI gained a bronze medal in Division 2 beating Orewa College in shootout in their final. The 1xt XI won Gold in Division 1 beating Whangarei Girls in the final 3-0.

Lacrosse

Lacrosse is continuing to gain traction at St Cuthbert’s with numbers steadily on the rise. The girls played in the weekly College Sport competition against various schools from the greater Auckland region. This year, they were very fortunate to have Korenza Heath coach. Korenza is a representative player, who was able to pass on her knowledge and skills to the girls. Thanks also to the team Manager, Martin Lee.

Multisport

We had some great results at the start of the year in the AKSS Multisport events. Samantha Bradley won the AKSS U14 Girls Individual Triathlon Champs. At AKSS Aquathon Champs, Sophie Robb won the U14 race, followed by Hannah Piper in 3rd and Samantha Bradley in 4th. Some of our senior Athletes competed in the U19 Teams event. Peyton Leigh and Hannah Milne won the Girls team event, followed by Chloe Browne and Grace Li in 2nd and Bella Browne and Amelia Wilby in 3rd.

Netball

Netball continues to be St Cuthbert’s largest participation sporting code. We have students developing as players, coaches, managers and umpires throughout the season. Our Year 7&8 students participated in Tuesday night netball again this season, with 9 teams involved. The season finished on a high with the College running two weekend Netball tournaments on site for the teams to play off against each other and our senior teams. Our top Year 7&8 teams both competed in the Central Zone Competition in August and had some great games against other top schools in the central Auckland region. Our Premier team secured a place in the highly contested Premier 1 division after attending grading early on in the season. Led by Ruby Sussock, this team comprised a number of Year 9&10 athletes, which bodes well for future seasons. Our top Year 9&10 teams competed in the combined points tournament in August and all of our senior teams finished up the shortened season with two competitive tournaments run on site.

A special mention to Claudia English and Anna Hill who turned out week after week supporting the Netball programme in various roles.

Orienteering

The challenge of quick map reading combined with varied running are elements of orienteering that hold appeal for our students. This year Orienteering was able to enjoy two short ‘seasons’; the FebruaryMarch Auckland Sprint Series and, in October-November, the North Island School Championships and Auckland Schools Rogaine. Congratulations to Rebecca Greenwood and Zara Stewart for selection to the New Zealand Secondary Schools Team for the Senior Girls. Stand out performances were had by multiple students across the various events this year. At the Auckland Schools' Sprint Zones - Rebecca Greenwood placed 1st in the Senior Girls, Zara Stewart placed 1st in the Intermediate Girls, Grace McGregor-Macdonald 1st in the Junior Girls and Katelin Toes 2nd in the Junior Girls. Biba Hermann placed 2nd in the Year 8, with Alicia Wu in 3rd and Zara Toes placed 1st in the Year 7.

At the North Island School Championships in the Long Distance Championship Event, Zara Stewart placed 1st in the Intermediate girls with Eliza Went 2nd in the Junior Girls, and Alicia Wu 3rd in the Year 7&8 section. Zara Stewart also won the sprint event for Intermediate Girls. St Cuthbert’s Orienteering placed 1st in the Top School Competition for Year 7 and 8 Girls and 2nd in the Secondary School division for the Year 9-13 team. The Year 9-13 girls were also 2nd in the Premier School Award, which recognises the achievement of the top orienteers in each school age grade. The Premier Team consisted of Rebecca Greenwood, Zara Stewart, Eliza Went and Grace McGregor-Macdonald. For the Auckland Schools Rogaine, St Cuthbert’s Intermediate Girls Team came 1st, Sofia Toes and Zara Stewart, and 2nd, Grace Merrilees and Alisa Rao with our Junior Girls Team placing 2nd, Grace McGregor-Macdonald and Katelin Toes. In the Individual Rogaine, Grace Liang placed 2nd in the Intermediate Girls.

Senior School Sport (Continued)

Rock Climbing

Rock climbing is a club where students' physical strength and endurance are paired with their ability to problem solve. This year’s Climbing Camp was more of a challenge than usual. On the first day out, climbing at Castle Rock in the Waikato, climbers were met with heavy rains and had to cut their climbs short (even after some attempts at climbing while it poured.) Despite the mad dash back to the school van, the rest of the afternoon was filled with games and snacks, followed by an amazing dinner. Luckily, the next day’s weather was rain-free and students were all able to enjoy more outdoor climbing and abseiling as well. Rock Climbing Club is such an amazing opportunity, which is run by Ms Owens and Mr Howard who do a fantastic job, making it inclusive, challenging, and an all-around good time. We can’t wait to see what rock climbing has in store for students next year.

Rowing

This year St Cuthbert’s took on the venture of putting together our own rowing team. It started off small with Molly Cardwell-Dray and Nieve Campbell racing at the Aon Junior Regatta and North Island Secondary School Championships earlier in the year. After the 2019-2020 season was cut short, a Winter Learn to Row program was put together with the Waitemata Rowing Club. Expecting around 10 girls to sign up, we were ecstatic about the 31 girls we had join the program. The learn to row program was a great success; the girls had an amazing time and 20 of them moved on to become St Cuthbert’s first rowing squad! Over the past few months, the girls have been training hard, racing in their first official regatta on the 7th of November under Waitemata colours. The girls raced hard and achieved some fantastic results. We have an amazing group of girls rowing and we are so excited about seeing what we can do this season and where the programme will go next year.

Skiing

In 2020, we had a team of students compete at the Auckland Primary and Intermediate School Ski Champs at Snowplanet. Sophia Starrenburg won gold in both the slalom and slopestyle events for the Intermediate Snowboarding competition and Dina Ehsankya was awarded bronze in the Intermediate Ski category. In the 365 Schools Challenger Cup, Diana Ehsankya won all 3 events in the Year 7 and 8 girls' category and Hana Ehsankya won 2 of the events in the Year 9+ category and came 2nd in the 3rd event. Genevieve Lyne attended the Coronet Peak and Cardrona races this year and she really enjoyed her first season of Super G and SL full gates. Sophia Starrenburg competed at the SSNZ Junior National Snowboard Champs this season and placed 3rd overall in New Zealand for U14 girls. Sophia also placed 2nd in NZ in boardercross and 2nd in the Jones banked slalom. Amélie Stow participated in the New Zealand Alpine Youth Championships at Cardrona. Amélie placed 5th in the U19 Slalom and 6th in the U19 Giant Slalom.

Surfing

Surfing is a great opportunity for students to learn a new skill and experience the exhilarating thrill of catching a wave. With equipment supplied, return van transport plus supervision from our keen surfer teachers Ms McMahon and Ms Crabbe, these weekly sessions are popular. They usually visit Piha beach on Wednesdays after-school – weather and wave conditions permitting. The expert coaches from RAPU Adventures demonstrate all the skills required in an approved and safe environment.

Senior School Swimming Champions

Year 7 Champions

1st Isabella Lambie 2nd Sophie Yeoman 3rd Scarlett George

Year 8 Champions

1st Mia Kelliher 2nd Daniella Van Delden 3rd Amy Su

Junior Champions

1st Hannah Piper 2nd Elisha Lam 3rd Islay Boyes

Intermediate Champions

1st Grace Li 2nd Abbey Moody 3rd Sofia Kelliher

Senior Champions

1st Hannah Milne 2nd Ruby Sussock 3rd Georgia Milne

Swimming

Our Year 7&8 Swimming team had a strong showing at the Central Zone Championships with both our Year 8 4x25m Freestyle Relay team consisting of Mia Kelliher, Amy Su, Isobel Denton and Daniella Van Delden and our Year 7&8 4x50m Open Medley relay team consisting of Isabella Lambie, Daniella Van

Delden, Isobel Denton and Amy Su winning Gold. Isabella Lambie won the Year 7 50m Freestyle, 50m Backstroke and 50m Breaststroke at the Zone Championships in the individual events. St Cuthbert’s had a 8 person strong team attend the New Zealand Secondary School Swimming Championships in Hamilton. Elisha Lam gained 3rd place in the 13 Under 200m Breaststroke, 2nd place in the 13 Under 50m Breaststroke and 2nd place in the 13 Under 100m Breaststroke.

Table Tennis

Senior School Table Tennis comprised of 5 teams who took part in Friday afternoon matches in the Winter and Spring Table Tennis competitions. Unfortunately they were unable to get many weeks of competition done, but the students are looking forward to a better season next year.

Tennis

Fantastic progress is being made by our Tennis students as they continue to train with the Sparta Academy on skill development and tactics at the weekly practice. The popular new ‘’coaching only’’ option is ideal for beginners. We had our usual strong results at the annual Year 7 and 8 Central Zone tournament with Xin-Xin Zhu placing 2nd in the Year 8 Singles, Charlie Bamford placing 2nd in the Year 7 Singles with Emma Zhao and Selina Zhou winning the Year 7 Doubles title. This year we had 12 teams compete in the Term 1 and 4 AKSS, Saturday Tennis Competition. Highlights this year include our Premier Grade team placing 4th and Renee Zhang finishing 4th in the NZ U16 Singles. Mei Ling Joensen-Lee helped her Auckland team win the 2020 National Junior U14 teams title, while Mala Krzanic-Sullivan represented the Northern regional team at the same event where it placed 3rd. Mei Ling Joensen-Lee and Xin- Xin Zhu gained 2nd place in the AKSS U14 Doubles.

Touch Rugby

Term 1 saw our Premier Touch Team competing in the College Sport One Day Tournament at Cox's Bay Reserve. With the opportunity to play a number of games over one day, players fitness and game understanding improved immensely. Our Year 7 and 8 Cavers Team played weekly competition games against other local schools on Friday evenings, at College Rifles. This is always a great competition with strong rivalries among schools. The girls also competed in the Central Zone tournament at Cox's Bay Reserve. With seven games played over the day, the girls skills and understanding of the game improved immensely.

Tramping

The tramping club has done three trips this year. In February, we took 20 girls to Waitawheta Valley in the Kaimai. The girls walked in to an informal campsite in the forest, set up camp and then had a swim before dinner. The second day involved a longer walk with a bit more uphill walking. In September, 20 girls went to the Pinnacles hut in the Coromandel. The morning involved a big uphill climb to the hut and then, in the afternoon, we climbed to the summit of the Pinnacles. In December, a group of fit, adventurous girls went down to Tongariro National Park to walk the Northern Circuit. This is a fairly strenuous three day walk and includes the Tongariro Alpine Crossing on the second day. The trips are run by Mr and Mrs Bryden and Mr Howard These tramps are open to any student and some girls are using them to help qualify for the Duke of Edinburgh Hillary award.

Water Polo

It was another strong year for our Water Polo programme in the Senior School. We had a total of 16 teams across Years 7 to 13, gaining some great results in school competitions. The year began with an incredible trip to the USA, where our Premier team toured California for 3 weeks, visiting several top universities such as Stanford, UCLA and USC and playing several top ranked high schools and in various high school tournaments. In a COVID-19 impacted year, our Premier Team managed to gain a silver medal in the Auckland Secondary Schools' Championships and a bronze medal in the Chris Hayward Invitational Tournament. Our Year 7 and 8 programme had a great year with many of our teams gaining pleasing results and showing some promising development for the future. Our Year 7 and 8 Blue team gained a bronze medal at the Winter Fest Year 7 and 8 Tournament and a bronze medal at the North Island Year 7 and 8 Championships in Tauranga. Our Year 9 and 10 program continues to grow, with 3 teams participating in the Auckland competition. Our Junior A team reached the final of the Auckland Junior Secondary School Competition. Finally, we had several girls selected for the New Zealand Water Polo Premier League, which is a collection of the country’s top players; these players were Violette Perry, Ella Palmer, Georgia Milne, Chloe Tattersfield and Jessica Ingram. It has been a difficult year, but it was extremely rewarding to see so many teams get to play and gain such great results.