Sports Update

SPORTS UNIFORM RETURN

COULD ALL SPORTS UNIFORMS PLEASE BE RETURNED TO THE SPORTS OFFICE AS WE ARE MISSING HEAPS.

Sports Updates

Volleyball

Our Senior girls and boys competed in the Aoraki Champs on 21st (girls) and 23rd (boys) of March. Some excellent volleyball was on display by the girls teams and the boys team. The Senior A girls were 6th, Festival team were 2nd and the boys ended up 4th.

Basketball

Basketball trials for Senior Boys have been held. Trials are also taking place for Y9 & 10 boys. We have excellent numbers of students wanting to play basketball. Thank you to Ross Ashley and Michelle Cramond for their help with sorting teams and coaching.

If you are able to help coach or manage a team we would welcome you. Get in contact with Janet via email sports@geraldinehs.school.nz.

Year 7 & 8 Monday night competition continues and our 4 teams are getting some great results.

Secondary School Friday night competition starts April 28.

Netball

The netball season has begun for 2023! Netball trials have taken place and teams have been named. Practices begin ready for the start of competition.

Please make sure SUBS have been paid, emails have been sent in regards to this. Any questions please don't hesitate to contact Tess - t.opie@geraldinehs.school.nz

To keep up to date with all things netball please follow our Geraldine High School Netball facebook page.

Boys Rugby

We are in need of coaches and managers for our teenage boys' rugby teams and players need to watch out for registrations.

Girls Rugby

U 11 and U 13 Comp starts Monday 12th June

U 15 and U 18 Comp starts Wednesday 17th May

Athletics

Aoraki Secondary Schools athletics took place in Ashburton on 15 March. Geraldine High competed well with some great results.

Ella Waldron broke the school Long Jump record again with a jump of 5.07m

Our athletes performed exceptionally well and had a great day.

We had nine students selected for SISS athletics in Invercargill. We have a team of 6 students attend this event.

SISS athletics Invercargill

We had a team of 6 students travel to Invercargill to compete and some excellent results were achieved by them all. Some outstanding results were gained.

Ella Waldron:- long jump 2nd 5.15m (new school record) 100m 12.95sec (new school record) hurdles 80m 2nd 12.56sec.

Sophia Rusbridge : - 800m 3rd 2.31sec (new school record) 1500m 4th 5.18.79sec (new school record).

SCPSSA triathlon

A group of 5 Year 7 girls attended this event on Friday 17 March in Timaru. The girls all performed really well and represented GHS with pride.

Results:-

Pippa McKeown 7th

Charlotte Taylor 8th

Pip Saywell 26th

Sophia Cisbneros 24th

Charlotte Walker 33rd

Swimming

SCPSSA swimming was held on 31st March.

A team of 11 students took part in this event held at CBay in Timaru. There were some great results from our swimmers, with our relay team coming 3rd.

Golf

Reon Lundie competed in the Aoraki Champs on Monday 27th March. He had a good day out.

Cycling

Kyra Marett had some great results at the Canterbury champs.

Kyra has just returned home after a successful weekend in Christchurch. Kyra was competing in the Canterbury road cycling championships. She won the gold medal in the u17 girls' time trial on Saturday and then won the gold medal in the u17 girls road race on Sunday.

Softball

Geraldine Falcons played in the South Canterbury U19 tournament during the 22/23 season. On 29th March they secured their first win in a competition season final. At the beginning of the season, the team was mostly made up of Geraldine High School students including Billy Vincent, Zac Allen, Kohl Brown, Ethan Taylor, Sienna Baker, Seth Baker, Cameron Jamieson, Anthony Baker, Lachy Sloan-Scott, and Cameron Clarke. We also had a couple of additional students join in for the second half of the season. Those players were Ethan Grant and Kristin Schoneveld. We also had a couple of players who joined us from outside of GHS as we are playing in the South Canterbury competition and they were Ambrose Bensemann and Kiloran Cairns. All players continued to show development throughout the season and we look forward to seeing further keen interest this Summer for the 23/24 season.

It was great to win the final! We've been close and have received runner-up in the competition before but this is our first final win! Our competition throughout the season consisted of teams from Zingari and Timaru Boys' High School. Our team has had a core group developing their skills for the last 4 years. They have improved hugely in both their fielding and batting performance. Their base running and understanding of the rules have also made a significant difference to the quality of their play. It was great to see some outstanding home runs and brilliant catches both in and outfield. Our aim, as our pitching continues to develop, is to travel to one of the Secondary School Softball tournaments. 

“Congratulations to Jackson Marriott who was selected by Rolleston High School to represent them in the National Secondary School Championships Softball Tournament which was held in Christchurch last week. After a challenging few days with rain and cold temperatures Rolleston played well as a team. Jackson put in a strong batting performance during the tournament while adding some home runs to his season tally. He was a key part of the team as catcher and 1st base.

Well done Jackson, that's an awesome achievement.”

Any questions regarding any of the above information or to let us know about sporting achievements of our students please email sports@geraldinehs.school.nz