We really praise God for a wonderful day of Cross Country running. The weather was perfect and the tamariki and rangatahi gave of their best! A huge thanks to all of the parents and and grandparents and others who came to support our runners.
The top six runners have other opportunities to shine….
The top six boys and girls from the Year 5-8 races will represent the school at the South Zone event at Hansen Park on Wednesday 22 May. There is a Y0-4 Cross Country Challenge event also (for the first six places) on Tuesday 2 July at Hillview Christian School. The Secondary Schools Road race is on 14 May and the Cross Country is on 6 June.
Results can be found here: XC24Results (provisional – please let Mr Norton know of any errors)
We thank God for our BEST ever Finals results on Thursday at the Canterbury Secondary School Athletics – in wet and cold conditions – top 5 perfotrmances qualify for the South Island Champs this weekend
Congrats Year 9-10 Athletics Team on Finals on Thursday
Our BEST EVER Results (top 5 make South Island Champs)
1st Azzy Fonmoa U15G Shot Put – 11.25m!!!
2nd Kaniesha Sopo U14G Discus
3rd Kaniesha Sopo U14G Shot Put
3rd William Thorpe U14B Triple Jump
3rd Israel Davis U15G 400m
3rd Laitogi Lai Kong U14B 100m
4th Louis Dowall U15B Javelin
4th Laitogi Lai Kong U14B Shot Put
4th Cedrick, Laitogi, Rihdo, Daniel U14B 4x100m Relay
We praise God for our best EVER Athletics results in the histrory of Hillview Christian School at the Canterbury Secondary Schools Athletics Prelims at Ngā Puna Wai yesterday. Our team of twenty did exceptionally, with 17 of them qualifying for Finals or Semi Finals in 21 events! We usually have two or three athletes qualify at this top level. Azryel Fonmoa (Shot Put) and Israel Davis (400m – 56.76 seconds!!!) go into Thursday’s final as top qualifiers and in the Under 14 Boys’ 100m semi finals we have three runners (Daniel Le Roux, Laitogi Lai Kong and Cedrick Jambalos) in the top eight qualifiers with two wins and a 2nd in their heats. Kaniesha Sopo was second qualifier in the Shot Put and third in the Discus Throw. Manny Thrupp had an amazing 5 metre plus Long Jump to qualify 3rd along with Daniel Le Roux (4.98m) for the Long Jump Final. Louis Dowall (3rd) and Lyric Tukia both qualified for the Javelin Final. To qualify for finals the athletes need to finish in the top 8 in their prelims – sometimes from fields of 35+ athletes. Over 1000 students took part from 45 secondary schools.
Below is a list of our qualifiers and their start times. Unfortunately some of our athletes are unable to compete as it clashes with Easter Camps. Well done to all of our team and a big thanks to the parents who came to support us and to Mr Le Roux who managed the team.
Congrats to Laitogi who competed in the LAUNCH ATHLETICS at Nga Puna Wai on Saturday evening for the Red team…..pictured doing the Overhead Throw!!!
Our Year 9-10 Athletics Team will compete at Nga Puna Wai on Tuesday and Thursday this week at the Canterbury Secondary School Champs – our team of 21 with their start times is here: ATH24
This year we are planning to put a combined Christian Schools’ team into the South Island Secondary Schools’ Junior Netball Championships to be held at the Christchurch Netball Centre indoors at Ngā Puna Wai from 8-11 July in the School Holidays.
Details can be found here, with the trial on Wednesday 3 April, 3.30-5pm in our gym.
Some great performances from our two Year 9 Mountain Bikers today at the Singletracks Secondary Schools’ competition at Halswell Quarry. Both Anthony Oliveria and Fynn Burridge had super races with Anthony coming in about 5th in the Sport Grade and Fynn going so close to getting the W in the C/D Grade combined, leading after the first of two laps and just being outsprinted by a second on the line! More importantly, both looked liked they wrere having lots of FUN!!!
Well done to our South Zone Swimming team that competed last Monday at Wharenui against the local schools in our Zone. We thank God for the gifts and talents they have!
We had lots of excellent results and we now have a team of 10 students attending the Primary Sports Canterbury Finals on Wednesday 27 March at the Selwyn Aquatic Centre…….see names below
Year 8 Relay Team – 1st: Nikita Nilov, Millie Graham, Jessica Allison and Vadim Pulin
(our Year 5, Year 6 and Year 7 relay teams were all 2nd place)
Jessica Allison: 1st IM, 2nd Backstroke – Year 8 Girls
Eloise Wright: 1st Freestyle, 2nd Breaststroke – Year 7 Girls
Tehillah Simpson: 2nd Freestyle – Year 7 Girls
Vadim Pulin: 1st IM, 1st Backstroke and 1st Freestyle – Year 8 Boys
Our School Cross Country is only 3 and 1/2 weeks way…..time to start walking/jogging and getting ready….a notice about the event on Wednesday 10 April on the Senior Campus is below