Sports round up

Late 2021*

Alys Scott (Y12)*

Basketball Five St Andrew’s College students and several coaches were involved in the Mainland Eagles Community Coaches clinic during the holidays, which brought together the best secondary school players from across the South Island. Three students, Lauren Whittaker (Y11), Karereatua Williams (Y12) and Jackson Rhodes (Y13), were selected as ‘Camp Performance Athletes’.

Canterbury Primary and CAIM Schools Duathlon Two Year 8 students finished in the top five at the Canterbury Primary and CAIM Schools Duathlon at Ruapuna Raceway. They were William Crawford (third) and Sasha McIntyre (fourth).

CrossFit Alys Scott (Y12) was crowned CrossFit National Champion 2021 in her division (Teen 16 to 17-year-old female) at the CrossFit New Zealand Nationals at the end of 2021. She is aiming to qualify for a spot in her division to compete at the CrossFit Games in Wisconsin, USA later this year, where the top 10 teens in the world will participate.

Equestrian At the Pony Club Zone 5 Games, Georgia Lewis (Y8) and Gemma Lewis (Y11) won the Open Pairs (U25). Gemma was selected in the Canterbury A team (U25) and Georgia in the Canterbury B team (U25) to represent Canterbury against other regional teams.

Futsal The Junior Girls’ futsal team beat Papanui High School 7–3 in their final to finish as the top regional team in 2021.

Karting Josh Silcock (Y10) won three out of four races to claim the Junior Class at the Tasman North vs South Grass Kart Championships. At the Canterbury Grass Kart Championships, Josh drove consistently well to become the 2021 Canterbury champion in the Junior Open class.

Motorcycling Shey Doerner-Corson (Y8) was third in the Junior Class at the Nut Buster Extreme Enduro event. Multisport Benjamin Ferrier (Y13) was first in the U17 category and was second overall at the Valley Ultra Run, in and around the Craigieburn Valley area.

Netball Karereatua Williams (Y12) and Sienna Stowers-Smith (Y11) were selected for one of three Netball New Zealand National Development Camps.

Polo Tom Turner (Y12) scored three of the five goals in the New Zealand Schools’ team’s 5–1 win over the New Zealand Barbarians team, which had Bradley Pugh (OC 2018) as a member.

Rugby St Andrew’s College was presented with the Press Cup in the Canterbury Schools’ Rugby Competition for the Best Total Aggregate Points across all the College teams.

1st XV player Isaiah Armstrong-Ravula (Y13) was selected into the Hurricanes U20 Development Squad for 2022. Tennis Finlay Emslie-Robson (Y12) was second in the Men’s singles at the Canterbury Open Kiwi Money Tournament.

At the ITF World Tennis Tour – J5 event, Duncan McCall (Y11) won the Boys’ doubles competition with partner Jordan Edwards. Finlay Emslie-Robson (Y12) was runner-up in the Boys’ singles.

St Andrew’s tennis players performed well at the Years 9–10 Canterbury Secondary Schools’ Tennis Championships, Ricky Kotepong won the Year 9 Boys’ singles and the Boys’ doubles with Alasdair McCall, who was third in the singles competition. Lily McHarg was second in the Year 9 Girls’ singles. In the Year 10 section, Felix Parkinson and Josh Silcock were third in the Boys’ doubles, and Felix Parkinson was fourth in the singles. Cherry Zhou and Madison Hughes were second in the Girls’ doubles.

Corbin Revis, Spencer Hughes (both Y8)*, Oliver Connolly, Jack Wheeler (both Y7)* after winning the CPSSA Boy’s tennis championship.

At the 2021 South Island Primary Schools’ Tennis Tournament, Lila Waghorn (Y8) was fifth in the singles and runner-up in the doubles in her age group.

At the 2021 Canterbury Primary and Intermediate School Tennis Championships, Lila Waghorn (Y8) won the Intermediate (Years 7–8) Girls’ doubles and was fourth in the singles competition. Jack Wheeler (Y7) won the Intermediate (Years 7–8) Boys’ doubles.

At the Canterbury Primary Schools’ Tennis Tournament, the St Andrew’s Boys’ team won the title of CPSSA Champions and the Girls’ team finished runners-up. Touch The following students were selected for the Touch Canterbury U16 and U18 teams for the 2021/2022 season: • Canterbury U16 Boys Black Team:

Harrison Mealings (Y9); • Canterbury U16 Boys Team: Samuel

Mustchin, Macklan Robertson (both Y10), Fynn Harris (Y9); • Canterbury U16 Girls Black Team:

Addison Williams, Ophelia Powell,

Rafferty Powell (all Y10); • Canterbury U18 Girls Team:

Mia McNaughton-Vincent,

Karereatua Williams (both Y12); • Canterbury U18 Boys Team:

Ethan-Hayward Punivai (Y13),

Thomas Ruwhiu (Y12).

Adam MacFarlane(Y9)*

Triathlon Three St Andrew’s students competed at the Canterbury Schools’ Triathlon Championships at Lake Rua and all did exceptionally well to finish in the top four: • U16 Boys –

Max Blockley (Y11) fourth; • U14 Boys –

Adam MacFarlane* (Y9) third; • U14 Girls –

Amber de Wit (Y9) fourth.

* Please note the use of 2021 year groups.

2022

Adventure Racing Tom Edwards, Toby Harvie and Corin Simcock (all Y13) formed a three-man team and competed in the Open category in an adventure race organised by the North Canterbury Sports and Recreation Trust. There were three stages to the race – a mountain bike, a rogaine, and a second mountain bike. They finished first in a time of 4:30.10 hrs.

Athletics Couper Killick (Y13) was among the youngest participants to be selected to attend a three-day High Performance New Zealand camp for athletics. Couper won three of the five assessments held during the camp, placing second in the other two. During the testing, he also broke a High Performance New Zealand record and is now on their recognition board, along with his childhood heroes and Olympians, Tom Walsh and Anton Cooper. At 16 years old, this is a remarkable achievement. He was also the only athlete to be given a 20-minute one-on-one session with Tom Walsh’s ex-coach, Dale Stevenson.

Couper Killick (Y13)

New Zealand National Athletics Championships St Andrew’s College athletes achieved outstanding results at the New Zealand National Athletics Championships, with Jonah Cropp (Y12) winning two gold medals in the U18 Grade for the 3000m and 5000m race walk. Jonah smashed his 5000m personal best time to 23:27, setting a new record, and is the current number one ranked U18 male in the country. As a result of his performances, Jonah was nominated to represent New Zealand with the U18 athletics team, which will be attending the Oceania Athletics Championships in Mackay, Queensland, Australia in June. Natalia Geneblaza (Y12) also won gold in the U20 4×100m relay and took silver in the U18 triple jump; and Maia Columbus (Y13) and Scarlett Kirby (Y13) both won bronze medals in the U18 4×100m relay, and U20 hammer throw respectively. Full results: • Jonah Cropp (Y12): gold medals in 3000m and 5000m race walking; • Maia Columbus (Y13): bronze U18 4×100m relay, eighth 100m final, seventh long jump; • Natalia Geneblaza (Y12): silver U18 triple jump, ranked second in New Zealand for U18 Women, gold in the U20 4×100m relay, fifth long jump; • Miah Taylor (Y11): sixth U18 pole vault; • Scarlett Kirby (Y13): bronze U20 hammer throw, fourth U20 discus; • Hannah Hughes (Y11): seventeenth 1500m.

Findley Curtis (Y9) was named as Canterbury Athletic Champion for 12-year-old boys after competing at the Canterbury Athletics Championships in eight individual events, winning seven of them and achieving two personal best times in 100m (12.1 sec) and 400m (58.7 sec).

Basketball During Waitangi weekend, the Mainland

Eagles Basketball Academy held a Performance Camp involving 60 athletes from across the South Island. St Andrew’s College had seven students in attendance, and the following students were selected into the 2022 Mainland Eagles Basketball Academy: • Performance Year 13 –

Madeline-Rose Morrow and

Karereatua Williams; • Performance Year 12 –

Lauren Whittaker, Kavanah Lene and Mitchell Corkery; • Advance Year 11 –

Ella Sharpe, Molly-Belle Morrow,

Ophelia Powell and Rafferty Powell.

Ophelia Powell, Molly-Belle Morrow, Ruby Beynon and Rafferty Powell (all Y11)

At the Youthtown 3×3 Quest Tour, the U17 Women’s category was won by a Canterbury Wildcats team consisting of four St Andrew’s College Year 11 basketballers – Molly-Belle Morrow, Ophelia Powell, Rafferty Powell and Ruby Beynon. The U17 Men’s category was won by a team consisting of four St Andrew’s College basketballers – Carter Rhodes, Hugh Kenny, Benjamin Ashman (all Y11), and Torin Ward (Y12).

The following St Andrew’s basketball players were named in representative squads for 2022: • Canterbury U15 A team:

Benjamin Ashman (Y11); • Canterbury U15 B team: Ruby

Beynon, Savannah Caulfield, Marcus

Isitt (all Y11), Metua Cranwell (Y9); • Canterbury U17 A team:

Molly-Belle Morrow (Y11),

Mitchell Corkery, Lauren Whittaker,

Charlotte Seddon, Jett Nicholson,

Kavanah Lene (Y12), Karereatua

Williams (Y13); • North Canterbury U17 A team:

Connor Higgs (Y12), Ella Sharpe (Y11); • North Canterbury U15 A team:

Ophelia Powell, Rafferty Powell (both Y11); • Canterbury U19 A team:

Madeline-Rose Morrow (Y13).

Lauren Whittaker (Y12) and Karereatua Williams (Y13) were named in the U17 Women's National team, which will travel to Jordan at the end of June to participate in the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asia Cup.

Cricket Rory Sloan (Y13) was selected for the New Zealand Māori Secondary Schools’ cricket team.

CrossFit Alys Scott (Y13) participated in the NOBULL CrossFit Games Open 2022, where over 1500 girls, aged 16–17 throughout the world, competed in the online qualifier. Alys was placed first in New Zealand, first in Oceania, and 21st in the world, and qualified for the next stage of the CrossFit Games.

Cycling Cohnor Walsh (Y9) was sixth in the Open Men’s Division in the 49km Leeston Classic cycling race.

Drone Racing Seth Moore (Y13) was third out of a field of 21 top competitors from all over the country at the New Zealand Open Drone Racing Championships.

Seth Moore (Y13)

Equestrian Gemma Lewis (Y12) was selected to represent Canterbury in all three Canterbury Area team competitions for the 2021/22 season. The Canterbury Area dressage team placed first in the South Island and second nationally. Gemma also won the top Secondary School Intermediate rider and the top Intermediate pair with her fellow intermediate rider, placing second in the Intermediate U18 section. The Canterbury Area mounted games team placed first, both in the South Island and nationally. Gemma has also had numerous individual successes so far in 2022.

Fencing Ryan Stewart (Y13) was selected to represent New Zealand in the Fencing Cadet and Junior World Championships in Dubai in April.

Football Outstanding footballer, Kiara Bercelli (Y13), was awarded a prestigious Tania Dalton Foundation Scholarship in the class of 2022. Kiara is one of 12 young talented sportswomen to be named as a recipient, which provides financial support for the three-year programme. Each athlete is also paired up with a sporting mentor. The Tania Dalton Foundation Scholarship was created in honour of the late sporting legend, and it is a great achievement for Kiara to achieve this recognition. Since winning the scholarship, Kiara has moved to Melbourne to play for a football team in the premiership grade that is just under the A League.

Karate Jayden Okeroa (Y11) achieved his junior black belt in karate and was also awarded the Martial Artist of the Year for the Papanui and Templeton clubs.

Jayden Okeroa (Y11)

Gemma Thomas (Y9) won a bronze medal for Kata (12–13 years) at the Canterbury Classic Karate Competition.

Mountain Biking William Pringle and William Crawford (both Y9) finished in the top 10 in the Torpedo7 National Mountain Biking Championships, held at the Crocodile Mountain Biking Park in the Halswell Quarry. In the U15 grade, which consisted of three laps of a very demanding and undulating course, William Pringle finished fourth in 53.35 minutes and William Crawford finished seventh in 57.01 minutes.

James Richardson (Y10) was second in the U14 boys’ downhill race at the Otago/Southland Schools’ Mountain Biking Championships, and was third in the Skyline Downhill event. Netball Sienna Stowers-Smith (Y12) and Karereatua Williams (Y13) were selected for three National Development Camps which took place in late January and early February, as part of Netball New Zealand’s pathway development programme.

Polo The St Andrew’s A polo team comprising Tom Turner, Lydia Ward (both Y13), Gemma Lewis (Y12) and Georgia Lewis (Y9) won the B Grade division at the South Island Secondary Schools Polo Tournament.

Tom Turner (Y13) and his Port Hills polo team won the Gould Cup, the leading club-level tournament in the South Island polo season. It is now likely that Tom will move up to a two-goal handicap, which is unprecedented for a player still at school.

Rugby The St Andrew’s U15 Blue rugby 7s team were runners-up at the Canterbury Rugby Union 7s Tournament. They went down 20–15 in a close match in the final against Christchurch Boys’ High School.

Surfing Rakiatea Tau (Y11) won the U18 event and was second in the U16 event at the Surfing Nationals in Westport.

St Andrew’s College was the overall winning team for Term 1 in the Wednesday surf league competition.

Kiara Bercelli (Y13) Rakiatea Tau (Y11)

Swimming Anthony Song (Y7) won a silver medal in the 50m freestyle, bronze in the 200m freestyle, and bronze in the 200m breaststroke at the 2022 Swimming Canterbury West Coast Junior Championships.

Rylee McBride (Y10) won two gold in the 50m and 100m butterfly, silver in 100m breaststroke, and bronze in the 50m freestyle and 100m backstroke in the 13–14 Year Girls’ division at the South Island Swimming Championships. She also won seven gold medals at the Otago Long Course Swimming Championships.

Tennis At the South Island Secondary Schools’ Tennis Championships, the Senior Boys’ team of Duncan McCall (Y12), Blake Cullen (Y13), Ricky Kotepong (Y10), Josh McPhail (Y12) and Josh Silcock (Y11) played a very close final against Christ’s College, finally beating them eight sets to seven on countback to win the first ever South Island Secondary Schools’ Senior Boys’ title for St Andrew’s College.

The Senior Girls’ team of Sophie McDermott (Y13), Lily McHarg, Ruby McPhail (both Y10), Charli Watts (Y13) and Lila Waghorn (Y9) were third at the South Island Secondary Schools’ Tennis Championships against a very competitive line up.

The New Zealand tennis rankings were published with Frank McHarg (Y5) ranked third in New Zealand for 11 years and under.

St Andrew’s College students performed well at the Canterbury Secondary School Sports Senior Tennis Championships in Year 11 and Year 12–13 grades. Results: