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Friday 8 April 2010
Issue Three Hundred and Seventy-Three
Equestrian News
Southland Secondary Schools’ Track Cycling
Championships
Congratulations to the Hargest Cycle team who
had a combined total of 45 points during this meet,
11 points clear of their nearest rival.
Sean Fox (pictured top) was unbeaten for the
day winning the 500m time trial and the scratch
races over 500m and 1250m. For his efforts he
claimed the individual honour of Best Boys’
Under 19 rider.
Sarah Tomlinson (pictured middle) won the
title of Best Under 19 Female rider and Tom
Beadle (pictured bottom) won Best Under 17
Boys’ rider.
Triathlon
New Zealand Vegemite
Year 9 Spelling Bee
March 8 2010
Akib Khan
Dylan Acason
Hamish Riley
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A strong team of 15 students attended the School Triathlon
Championships in Winton last Friday.
We had a good mixture of senior and junior students.
Results were:
Individual Competitors:
U13 Boys’
1st Tom Wylie (Junior Campus)
8th Taylor Holden (Junior Campus)
U15 Girls’
2nd Holly Pierce
Team Competitors:
U15 Girls’
3rd Lucy Fisher, Laura Copeland,
Emily Croft
O15 Girls’
1st
Clem Flatley, Sarah Tomlinson,
Sarah-Ann Meredith
3rd
Bailey Lovett, Lydia Smith,
Rachael Wilson
O15 Boys’
2nd Andrew Bester, Jordan Copeland,
Nathan Blomfield
Rail Trail
Brandon Waerehu
Akib Khan, Pierre Ngeru, Hamish Riley, Dylan Acason,
Brandon Waerehu and Andre Zwies represented the school at the
Regional finals in Dunedin on March 8. From the group of fifty
contestants Akib, Pierre and Hamish made the final round and
Akib was placed second.
Akib’s prize was a trip to Wellington along with a parent,
to represent the Otago/Southland region in the National finals
on March 20. There he was placed sixth overall. The school is
enormously proud of his efforts. Over the last three years Hargest
has had two pupils in the National finals plus an ex Junior Campus
pupil won the competition last year.
All the students win a Collins electronic spellchecker for their
efforts.
From left: Lydia Smith, Bailey Lovett, Leah Dixon and Rachael Wilson
This is an email received from a teacher at McKenzie
College following the Rail Trail Duathlon held at the end of
February.
“As a secondary school teacher managing a school team at
the Rail Trail Duathlon last weekend, I was highly impressed
by the efforts of your team. Their smart uniform, polite nature,
enthusiasm and committed performance was very admirable.
Please pass on congratulations to the students and the
teacher(s)/parent(s) who managed them.”
The James Hargest College team of Rachael Wilson, Lydia
Smith, Bailey Lovett and Leah Dixon came third in the schools’
section of the Challenge.
Kim McCabe and her horse Charlton Officer
Kim McCabe
Year 12 student, Kim McCabe has been selected for the Otago/
Southland Team to compete at the New Zealand Pony Club
Eventing Championships in Taranaki over the holidays. Kim is
the first Hargest student in many years to achieve selection into
this team.
Otago/Southland Secondary Schools Equestrian Teams
Showcross Event
Two JHC Teams competed at this event.
The Red team was placed second overall and consisted of :
Kim McCabe
Clare Bramley
Kelly Russell
Annie Russell
Katie Weir
The Gold Team was placed fourth and consisted of:
Kelly McDonald
Lee Warren
Aimee McCallum
Lana Medder
Maeghan McCallum
Tessa Schmidt
Nicole White
Nicole recently competed at the Horse of the Year Show in
Hastings. She was one of four riders to be selected for the Otago/
Southland team competing on her pony Benson Dun It. Nicole
came second in the 6 Bar Pony of the Year, 2nd in a 1.05m pony
class which had 122 entries and narrowly missed out on the
1.10m Pony of the Year Championship class. On her other pony
Cuban Connisseur, Nicole took out 1st place overall in the Pony
1.20m class and 4th place overall in the Speed Pony of the Year
1.20m class.
This year she has also competed for the South Island at the North
Island Showjumping Champs. Her team was placed 3rd overall
out of 33 teams.
Interschool Competition
Congratulations to the James Hargest College equestrian team
consisting of Kelly McDonald, Aimee McCallum and Meaghan
McCallum, who won the AMP trophy for the Interschool
competition at the Invercargill A & P Show recently.
Netball
Congratulations to Morgan Hunter (right)
who has been selected as the youngest
member of the Otago/Southland Netball Team
in the Lois Muir Competition. Just one step
below the Southern Steel!