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Benjamin Freeman (2021) has signed with the Taranaki Mountaineers in the New Zealand National Basketball League. This is the first professional contract for Benjamin.

In February, at the Youthtown 3×3 Quest Tour, the Open Men’s category was won by a team consisting of two St Andrew’s Old Collegians, Benjamin Freeman and Tanae Lavery (2021).

Isabella Galvan (2021) was named in the Southern Blast NNL netball team.

Tapenisa Havea (2021 Head Girl) won the Capital Classic Athletics Senior Women’s shot put in February. In March, she had great success at the Jennian Homes New Zealand Track and Field Championships in Hawke’s Bay, winning silver medals for both the Senior Women’s shot put and Senior Women’s discus, achieving personal bests in each discipline. She took silver in the shot put just behind Tokyo 2020 Olympian, Maddi Wesche. Tapenisa has qualified for both the shot put and discus for the Oceania and World U20 Championships.

Tapenisa Havea (left)

Jackson Rhodes (OC 2021) has committed to West Virginia Wesleyan College in the USA. Jackson’s basketball scholarship ensures that he can be a student-athlete for the next four years as he undertakes his undergraduate degree.

Molly Spark (2021) competed in the brutal 2022 GODZone Adventure Race as part of Team FEAR Youth, with their age range from 16–19 years. They finished unranked, but that did not dampen the excitement they felt at the finish line of what some would describe as the toughest adventure race in the world.

Blake Theobald (2021) had his Level 3 Design folio selected for the NZQA Top Art Exhibition. This is a touring exhibition that travels New Zealand, providing an opportunity for current students to see Excellence folios from the previous year. Blake was new to Design in Year 13, so this was a fantastic achievement. On the first day of Term, 1 the College welcomed fourth generation students, Elliot and Oliver Wallace (Year 9), who are pictured with their sister, Madison (Year 10), and their father, James Wallace (1989), beside grandfather, Tony Wallace (1952). They are standing next to their great grandfather, Keith Wallace’s (1923) recognition post in the driveway of the College.

The Wallace family

Obituary

Malcolm Richards

The St Andrew’s College community was saddened to hear of the passing of Malcolm Richards (1989) following a stroke in December at the age of 50. Malcolm had a huge heart and community spirit and was an integral member of the Fox Glacier community. He worked as a skilled glacier guide for Fox Glacier Guiding for 17 years, as a local St John volunteer for 15 years, and on the West Coast Search and Rescue team for 15 years. He was also part of the local Civil Defence team, checking on and helping people during floods and other events. When COVID-19 hit, he worked for the Department of Conservation, fixing walking tracks. Malcolm’s deep love for the outdoors had been fostered by the Outdoor Education programme at St Andrew’s according to his obituary on Stuff. Malcolm is survived by his wife, Marianna, their two boys, Pedro, 6 and Filipe, 3 who they home schooled together. Malcolm also had an older son, Lucas, 18.

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Reginald Baker 1942 Roger Fowler 1946 Rev. William Francis 1947 Michael Rayne 1949 Gerald Bennett 1950 Norris Watson 1950 John Bristow 1950 Jim Wilson 1951 Roger Mirfin 1952 Warwick Rathgen 1954 Ian Hamilton 1955 Bryan Smith 1955 Malcolm Westgarth 1957 John Willis 1957 Graham Ellis 1958 Alistair Brown 1958 Gifford Baldwin 1959 Colin Amodeo 1959 Bruce Gray 1962 Allan Bigham 1963 Douglas Goss 1966 Roderick Thomson 1966 Graham Campion 1970 Robin Gray 1970 Dean Cranefield 1974 Christopher Emeleus 1988 Scott Raumati 1989 Malcolm Richards 1989