Athletics Sports Day

Athletic Sports Day

The Secondary School Athletic Sports Day was held in perfect weather conditions, with a number of parents and grandparents coming along to enjoy the occasion. Over 1000 Secondary School students competed, or supported, a great variety of track and field events.

An incredible seven records were broken on the day. These included Hayden Vickery (Year 11) running 23.00 seconds in the Senior Boys’ 200m, breaking the old record set by T A Hart in 1959, Hugh Montgomery (Year 13), who ran a scintillating 10.04 seconds in his Senior Boys’ 100m heat to beat the old record of 10.80 seconds previously held jointly by S R Farrell (set in 1992) and J R Maug (in 2001), and Tapenisa Havea (Year 12) who broke two records, in the Senior Girls’ discus and shot put, and whose throw in the shot put surpassed the previous record by a whopping 5.5 metres. Other recordbreaking athletes were Elliot Graves (Year 9 – U14 Boys’ 1500m), Couper Killick (Year 11 – U15 Boys’ discus), and Neve Moulai (Year 12 – Senior Girls’ 400m), who broke a 25-year-old record. House spirit was also to the fore, with Rutherford claiming the Champion House honours on the day.