Sports E-Newsletter (4th Ed.)

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Issue04TERM 12012

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P 1Endurance ClassCricket

P 2NZSS Triathlon

Naonals &NZSS Open

Swimming Champs

P 3Rowing

P 4Athlecs reportVolleyballCoach Profle

P 52012 Athlecs

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S P O R T 2012ATHLETICS PROFILEGEORGIA BLACK

It is evident you have vastly improved over the 2011/2012

track season. What has your improvement come down to? -I believe my improvement has come down to controlling my

health. Especially iron levels and mentally pushing myself toexceed. Last year I had breathing difficulties and little energy butthanks to medical specialists I have sorted these out and it seems

to be helping me and my running.

What are your goals going into the North Island Secondary

School Champs?- Having the triathlon national Champs a few days before thechampionships obviously I want to insure I am recovered and

ready to run as best I can. I would like to achieve Personal Bestsin both the 3000m and the 1500m, placing would be great but itcomes down to the day.

What are your goals in relation to being Cross Country cap-

tain?Being cross country captain is a great privilege, this year I hopeto get the team back to former glory. I would like to encourage

younger runners to ensure when I leave cross country is a suc-cessful sport. Another thing I would like to achieve is gettingnumbers up in runners in both boys and girls to ensure we havegood/strong teams at various events.

What are your career aspirations beyond school, or perhaps

university? Will you continue running?-At the moment if my running continues to improve I would like

to possibly go to America on a scholarship to run and study. Atthe moment I am in contact with Villanova based in Philadelphiaso we will just see what happens there. Otherwise I would like togo to Wellington to study law at Vic, I would in Wellingtoncontinue to run for a club.

What is your favourite athletics event, for what reasons?-Thats a hard question, the shorter are always over much faster,where as the longer you dont have to heavily rely on your start.3000m at the moment seems to be my speciality and getting therecord was a surprise. So 3000m is definitely a contender to be afavourite. Its all about pacing yourself and self belief. The top

two inches as Im always told.

Do you have a special training diet? Or any special routines? -I dont bother about what I eat, as I believe younger peopleshouldnt become over indulged in the sport until a higher elite

level is reached. This is to ensure you dont get bored/ unenthu-siastic about sporting field. My di et however does include lots offruit and vegetables A special routine I usually have is havingmarmite and toast for breakfast, pre race, and I always ensure I

do a good warm up and warm down.

Do you have any tips to share with younger athletes or those

considering doing athletics in the school? -Although you may not be the best at the start, with hard work,self belief and determination you can reach your goals at the end.

WHSSoftball

Welcome to the 4th edition of the WHS

e-newsletter.

Term one has come to an end and last week

was the 2012 Summer Tournament

week. We had teams all round

New Zealand competing:

A big rowing squad headed to Twizel in

the South Island

The Waka Ama paddlers were in Rotorua

along with the Motor X riders.

The Tennis team was in Auckland.

Triathletes and swimmers at Lake Karapirofor the 1st NZSS Open water swimming

champs along with the Triathlon Champs.

We had two Softball teams down in Palm-

erston playing

Track and Field athletes at the NISS

Champs in Tauranga.

Netball trials have been held this week, which

is always a busy few days at Springvale

Stadium. The Basketball teams have all beennamed and are training hard. The 1 st VX

rugby team have had two preseason games

and head to Christchurch for a tournament.

The Football & Hockey teams have also been

training hard, so bring on the cold, wet muddy

practices.

Term two kicks off with the school Cross Coun-

try Champs on Friday 27th of April. This year

we are trialling a new course out at

Scoutlands.

Five days later sees the first big Sports

Exchange that the school has participated in

for many years. We head to New Plymouth totake on both the Boys and Girls High Schools.

The winter sports fields, grounds and courtswill again be busy, so if are keen to help with

managing teams and coaching give me a call

at school.

Good luck for the season!

Mark Cornaga


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By Lucy Stewart & Kelsi McAsey

Volume 1 , Is s ue 1EnduranceClass

DONT FORGET TO LIKE US ONFACEBOOKWanganui High SchoolSport

WHSCricket

Wanganui High School Students Dana

Garrett, Sam Roebuck and CalebGreene have been active JuniorCoaches for Cricket Wanganui coach-ing 7-10 year old age groups on aFriday Night.

They have started formalising their

coaching by completing the first stageof the New Zealand Cricket CoachingQualification.

Cricket Wanganui Operations Manag-er, Dilan Raj, said he is impressed bythe Wanganui High School studentswork ethic, commitment to coachingthe juniors and contribution to the

community.

There are a number of WHS stu-dents that give of their time, but it isthis commitment to better themselvesas coaches that will truly make a dif-ference not only in the playing oftheir junior cricketers but also in theirown lives towards becoming responsi-ble and contributing adults. They area credit to Wanganui High School.

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NZSSTriathlonNationals&

NZSSOpenWaterSwimming

Championships2012

Sam Hopper (Head of Sport)

Our 2012 Multisport team was ac-companied to Lake Karapiro by a stronggroup of elite Wanganui High School swim-mers eager to compete in New Zealands

very first secondary schools Open WaterSwim Championships. All of our dedicatedswimmers competed in both championshipswithin the two days of competition to helpour triathlon teams.

We travelled up to Lake Karapiro onWednesday 28th March ready for an after-noon of Open Water Swim Races, Thurs-day morning was the individual triathlon rac-es and team races were in the afternoon. Soit is evident our athletes had a busy scheduleand eating right was a major part in our ef-forts at both national events.

Our enthusiastic squad this year con-sisted of: two U19 boys teams, one U19

girls team, two U16 boys teams, one U16girls team, one U16 individual and six indi-vidual swimmers.

Congratulations to Jack Unsworth,Vladimir Stewart and Sam Hopper for claim-ing Wanganui High Schools second triath-lon nationals medal, in placing 3rd in theU19 teams race.

Thank you very much to Mr Wright,Mrs Martin and Mr Wright (Jamess Dad)for the time you dedicated to the team in or-ganising our travel, delicious cuisine andaccommodation. It truly was a great atmos-phere to be in surrounding these two nationalevents.

e are lucky to have such devoted

teachers at Wanganui High School, whomake these trips possible, in sacrificing theirown time. It was great to see students takingadvantage of the opportunities High Schoolprovides.

2012 Secondary Schools Open SwimNational Championships:

-U14 Males 1km- Stefan Hannan 8th (14:18)-U16 Males 1km- Caleb Martin 12

th(13:10)

-U16 Females 1km- Madison Ross 15th (14:56),

Shealea Philips 25th

(17:52)-U19 Males 1.5km-Jack Unsworth 9th (20:19),Daniel Aplin 13th (21:59)

2012 Secondary Schools Triathlon National

Championships:-James Wright placed 6

thin the U16 individual

event in a time of 51:00 (500m Swim-7:46, 14km

Cycle-26:48, 4km Run

-16:26)

-U16 Male team 1 placed 11th

with a total time of54:37. Caleb Martin swam (500m-8:02), JamesWright cycled (14km-28:37) and James Dorgan

ran (4km-17:58).

-U16 Male team 2 placed 14 th with a total time of

1:04.08. Stefan Hannan swam (500m-8:24), DylanPage cycled (14km-36:49) and Riley Culverran (4km-18:55).

-U16 Female team place 14th with a total time of

1:16.35. Shealea Philips swam (500m-12:05),Michaela Sullenburger cycled (14km-41:33) and

Rosie Smith ran (4km-22:57).


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WHSROWING

The Weekend gone saw thirty Rowers andtwo Coxwains from Wanganui High Schooltravel to Lake Karapiro for the 2012 North

Island Secondary Schools Rowing Regatta,supported by Pub Charity. Over fortyschools from throughout the North Islandarrived in Karapiro for the last major hitout before Maadi Cup in Twizel.

Over the three day regatta, Wanganui HighSchool crews made it through to eleven Afinals and twelve B finals, resulting in

and.

Fridays rough weather and 3 hour delayin racing did not dampen the enthusiasmof 1655 athletes registered for this regatta.

Saturday and Sunday conditions were per-fect for rowing. Once again Sara-Jane Backwas the star of the show on finals day win-ning two Silver medals and one Bronzemedal in three of her five A finals.

Well done, Hugh Pawson, who was verybusy with five finals, placing 1st in the un-der 16 Single Sculls B final; the last race ofthe day for the club. The Novice Girls(voted the most supportive crew by theirpiers) Kate Hoskin, Ashley ONeil, KaylaSpencer, Kadee Gedye and Riley Wyeth cox,who, with some steering problems requir-ing some course corrections, placed 2nd in

the Under 18 Novice coxed four B final.

A fantastic effort from the under 16coxed Quadruple Sculls crew of HughPawson, Tyler Manville, Joshua

Pewhairangi, Stave Hill and ReubenGedye (cox) to battle through white capwater to qualify for the A final, then toplace 6th in the North Island. The suc-cesses of the weekend are encouragingfor the future of rowing at WanganuiHigh School.

A team of 19 Rowers and 2 coxwainsfrom Wanganui High School will travelto the National Secondary Schools Maa-di Cup Regatta in Twizel on 25 th Marchwith support from the Lion Foundationand Wanganui Cosmopolitan Club and

NZCT.

Girls under-17 coxed fourSara-Jane Back, Sharnay Wilson, AmieBack, KaelaJaniten and Aleisha Elliot cox.

Girls under 16 Single ScullsSara-Jane Back.

Lightweight Girls under 18coxed four Briar Stevenson, Chelsea Smith,

Danjelle Wilson, Sarah Somerville andAleisha Elliot cox.

Girls under 18 coxed fourSara-Jane Back, Kaela Janiten, EllaCvitanovich, Briar Stevenson and AleishaElliot cox.

CONGRATULATIONS

Sara-Jane Back from Wanganui High School, who just picked

up a Silver Medal in the Girls U16 Single at the AON Maadi

Cup Rowing Regatta down in Twizel,

with a time of 8.23 minutes!


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WHSAthletics

The 2012 Wanganui High School Athletics Champion-

ship was a very successful day this year, producing a strong team

which went onto haul in a pleasing collection of Wanganui Sec-

ondary School placings. Throughout the season we have had a

good field of WHS athletes competing in Tuesday night club

nights, NZSS Athletics championships in Wellington, Capital

Classic, Cooks Classic, Porritt Classic and most recently both the

Athletics New Zealand National championships in Auckland and

the North Island Athletics Championships in Tauranga.

Our Impressive record of 17- 1st places, 22- 2nd Places

and 14- 3rd Places is a great indication of the talent our athletics

disciplines hold for the future.

Our track results portray a solid effort by all who com-

peted! In the junior girls 100m Millie Manning came 3 rd in 14.22;

Kayla Spencer 8th in 14.97. Intermediate girls Caroline Gruber 2 nd

in 13.41 and Romata Blackburn 3rd in 13.57. In the junior boys

100m Vili Koroi 1st in 12.24 and Kalib Houltham 2nd in 12.85.

Intermediate boy Jayden Lane 2nd in 12.17 and Tyler McElwain

claimed 5th with 12.38 in the senior boys final.

Moving onto the 200m; Millie Manning 1st in the junior

girls with 29.75, Caroline Gruber 1 st in the Intermediate grade in

27.74, Courtney Forlong 6 th with 29.87. In the boys 200m races;

Kalib Houltham ran 26.41 to place 1 st, Poutama Hamahona Tara-

roa 5th in the intermediate boys final in 26.19 and Tyler McElwain

claimed 4th with 24.91 in the senior boys.

In the male 300m final, Cullen Cornaga 8 th in 47.02 and

Trey Willis-Croft picked up 5th in 45.29.

Our only 400m runner: Sarah McDonald ran a quality1:02.07 to pick up 2nd place in the senior girls final.

We move into the middle distance events starting with

the 800m races. Junior boy Max Davidson 3 rd in 2:30.63, Interme-

diate boy Kenneth Padberg ran 2:11.02 to claim 1st and in the

senior boys final Nick La Roche came 2 nd in 2:10.48. In the

1500m, Hollie Brasting 4 th in 5:53.75 in the junior girls, Georgia

Black ran 5:17.95 to claim 2nd. Junior boy Louis Hogan ran

4:59.25 to place 3 rd, our Intermediate boy ran 4:46.64 to place 2 nd

and in the Senior boys final, Sam Hopper claimed 3 rd in 4:29.61,

Nick La Roche placed 4th in 4:31.74.In the specialty events Sam

Hopper picked up 2nd place in the 2000m Steeplechase in 6:47.17,

Nick La Roche placed 3rd in 7:03.02, in the 300m Hurdles; Ken-

neth Padberg 3rd in 45.25, Poutama Hamahona Tararoa 5 th in

50.85, Caroline Gruber also placed 2nd in 49.92 in the girls final.

In the 80m hurdles 3rd place Caroline Gruber ran 13.62,

Cullen Cornaga ran 15.33 to place 2nd.

In the 3000m distance events; Sam Hopper ran 9:40.82 to place 3 rd

in the open boys, Georgia Black ran 10:45.55 to place 2nd

andNaomi Craig ran 11:36.63 to place 4 th in the open girls race.

Our 4x100m relay teams claimed two 1st places, three

2nds and one 3rd. Junior girls-2nd 58.17, intermediate girls- 3rd

57.33, senior girls- 2nd 55.19. Junior Boys-1st-51.53, Intermediate

Boys- 1st-48.20, Senior Boys-2nd-48.02.

Our two 4x400m teams both came 2 nd in their races.

The Female team ran 4:29.55, and males ran 3:56.80.

Onto our field events, we have long jump, high

jump, triple jump, javelin, shot put, discus and hammer throw.

Hammer throw athlete Georgia Flower came 1 st with

18.66m, also 1stin the senior girls javelin with 32.07m and 1 st

in the senior girls discus with 31.05m. Jess Watkin 2nd with

19.04 in the junior girls javelin, 2 nd in the junior girls discus

with 20.52m.

In long jump; Caroline Gruber 3rd with 4.78m inter-

mediate girls, Cullen Cornaga 5th with 4.57m junior boys. Our

intermediate boys were; Kenneth Padberg 3 rd 4.57m, Poutama

Hamahona Tararoa 6th 5.35m, Jesse Lewis 8th with 4.88m, Tyler

McElwain came 2nd in the senior boys with 5.76m.

In the male javelin, junior boy Lachie Mackenzie

threw 17.96 for 4th, and senior boys Erimana Kereopa threw

3.71 4th and Tyson Vaughan 6 th with 31.52m. Male discus

thrower Tipene Sheppard placed 2nd in junior boys with

29.32m.

Triple jump results follow: junior girl Leila Black-

burn 1st 8.85m, intermediate girls Roimata Blackburn 3 rd 9.27m,

Emma Thomas 4th with 9.23m, senior girl Jamie Van Ash-

Rangihaata 5th with 8.76m. Junior boy Mitchell Millar 2 nd with

9.25m, intermediate boy Joel Cooper 2ND with 11.93M, senior

boy Jaben Forbes 4th with 10.79m.

Shotput junior boy Harry Lillington threw 9.31m 4 th,

intermediate boy Ihi Patea 8 th with 9.25m and senior boy Josefa

Veioga 9th with 9.94m.

Lastly with high jump. Junior boys Wati Rangi-

nui1st 1.55m, Cullen Cornaga 7 th with 1.40m, intermediate boy

Adam Wadey 1st 1.60m, senior boys Akira Marsters 1 st with

1.75m and Kameli Kuruyabki 5th with 1.55m. In the junior girls

Kayla Spencer placed 1 st with 1.35m, Riana Te Ngahue 3rd with

125m, intermediate girl Taniko Tanehana 6 th with 1.35m and

senior girl Sarah McDonald placed 1 st with 1.65m.

I would like to thank the following students who

sacrificed their school day and evening, to help High School

host the Wanganui Secondary School Championships, I truly

appreciate your help and service to the school.

Tevita Taumoeanga, Georgia Flower,

Chris Campbell, Daniel Aplin, Emma Dowman,

Felicity Stanley, Kelsi McAsey,

Jamie Van Ash-Rangihaata, Lara Hawker,

Ellenor Morgan, Abbey Hopper, Hannah Clow,

Ben Ker, Adrianna Hannan, Emily Morris,

Jordan McDonald, Kahn Brewer,

Sophie McAsey and Tom Dixon.

I look forward to seeing you Week 2, Term 2 at Scoutlands for

the WHS X-country Championships.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you travelled from where you started."

Steve Prefontaine

See Page 5 for WHS Athletics 2012 photos!

WHSVolleyballFor the past six weeks WHS

hosted a WSS Volleyball

Compeon. We had ve

teams compeng

Senior Girls A and B, Junior

Girls Green and Gold as well as

a Junior Boys team.

Teams from WGC and

Turakina Maori Girls college

also parcipated.

The compeon concluded in

week 8 with WHS Girls A the

overall winner aer the six

rounds of compeon.

All teams played well and had an enjoyable season.

A huge thanks to Mrs Bennes, Miss Wilcock and Mr Owen who

coached teams and have been crucial to the development of

Volleyball within the school.

We are hoping to host a Junior Volleyball Tournament again in Term

Four.

Coach Profile: Cross Country

Mark CornagaMr Cornaga has been involved with the sport of Athletics, Cross country and Triathlon for over 25 ye

competitive athlete and coach. Over the years Mr Cg has competed in the NCAA system in California, a

three World Triathlon Championships and recently finished his competitive racing by finishing the 2010

Ironman.

Last year he was named as the NZ Secondary School Cross Country Coach/Manager and took the NZ

team to Canberra for the Australian Cross Country Champs. Mark coaches athletes of all abilities from the

to New Zealand Champions. Mark is currently employed as Director of Sport at Wanganui High Sch

when not coaching or spending time with his three kids, he is out surfing.


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