ATHLETICS
UHC hosts its own Athletics Day in late February or early March each year. It is a HOUSE competition and a very popular and colourful day. From this meet, students achieving well are selected for the school team to compete in the Hutt Valley Regionals in early March. We send a team of 80-90 students to this 8 school event and usually compete with great success. This event is traditionally held at the Hutt Recreation Grounds, but for the next two years will be held at the Petone Recreation Grounds, due to work being done at the Hutt Rec Park for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. From this regional event a much smaller group of 20-35 qualifiers are selected to go through to the Wellington regional meet. From there, students can be selected into the Wellington Regional team to compete at Secondary School Nationals in December each year.
UHC hires buses to transport students to the Hutt Valley and Wellington meets. Any student qualifying for Nationals is responsible for their own arrangements in conjunction with the Wellington team.
HUTT VALLEY MEETING, MARCH 8, 2011
Upper Hutt College sent a strong team to the Hutt Valley regional track and field competitions on Tuesday March 8th. Eight secondary schools in the Hutt Valley compete in this competition and our athletes performed well. The girls came FIRST of all schools competing and won the Brabin Shield for the fourth year in a row. Well done girls!
Top performers who were selected for the Wellington Regionals were as follows:
JUNIOR BOYS:
INTERMEDIATE BOYS
SENIOR BOYS
- Gavin Roil Long jump and 200 metres
- Eduan Struwig Shot put and discus
- Eli Tu'umatavai Shot put
- Siasi Sina Discus
- Lee Tukukino 800m, 1500m
JUNIOR GIRLS
- Courtney Buchanan 800m, triple jump, relay
- Alisha Cameron 100m, 400m, relay
- Rebecca Williams 200m, discuss
- Kara Orr 1500, 3000m, long jump
- Bethany Walker 1500m
- Dani Franken 1500m
- Alisha Poston High jump, relay
- Jessica Smit High jump, long jump
- Charlie Vilini Long jump
- Mereana Pickering Shot put, javelin
- Nikki Taite Shot put, discus
- Danielle Berney Relay
- Kennedy Bryant Javelin
INTERMEDIATE GIRLS
- Georgia Lloyd Long jump, triple jump
- Nicolette de Haan High jump
- Courtney Poole Long jump
- Emily Patterson 1500m, 3000m
- Caitlin Taylor 400m, 800m
SENIOR GIRLS
- Whitney Tapara Triple jump, relay
- Jamie Whiteman High jump, long jump, javelin, relay
- Amelia Sina Shot put, discus
- Holly Rausch Javelin
- Caitlin Bedlington 400m, 800m
- Shayla Haimona 100m, relay
- Haylee Russell Relay
WELLINGTON REGIONAL MEETING 2011
We had 27 students qualify for the greater Wellington Meeting. Top results in the relevant age categories were:
Thomas Loftus 1st 100metres, 1st long jump, 1st javelin (AWD)
Ashley Carmichael 2nd 200 metres, 1st 400 metres (AWD)
Caitlin Bedlington 2nd 400 metres
Kara Orr 3rd 3000 metres
Brandon Mudzekenyedzi 3rd high jump
Amelia Sina 2nd discus
Jayden Treviranus 2nd 100 metres
Gavin Roil 1st 200 metres
Jayden Treviranus, Eduard Struwig, Amelia Sina and Thomas Loftus have been selected to represent the Wellington region in the North Island championships to be held later in the year in Hamilton.
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