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 2, 2010

Upper Hutt College sent a strong team to the Hutt Valley regional track and field competitions on Tuesday March 2nd. Virtually all secondary schools in the Hutt Valley compete in this competition and our athletes performed well. The girls came FIRST of all schools competing while the boys came fourth. By virtue of their win, the girls win the Brabin Shield for the third year in a row. Well done!

Top performers were as follows:

JUNIOR BOYS:

• Tamati Campbell                1st javelin (new Hutt Valley record), 3rd discus
• Owen Taylor-Bauckman      1st shot put
• Cameron Jamieson             3rd javelin
• Matthew Fong                    2nd triple jump; 3rd long jump

INTERMEDIATE BOYS

• Siasi Sina                         1st discus
• Pride Petterson-Robati       3rd shot put

SENIOR BOYS

• Bronson Orr                      1st 1500 metres
• Gavin Roil                         1st long jump; 3rd triple jump
• Trei Fenton                        3rd long jump

JUNIOR GIRLS

• Kairo Wise                      2nd 100 metres
• Kayla Poston                   3rd 100 metres
• Michelle Lintern                3rd 400 metres
• Courtney Buchanan          2nd 1500 metres
• Ashleigh Thompson          1st 3000 metres
• Emily Peterson                 2nd javelin
• Riane Turipa                     3rd javelin
• Finau Lauaki                    1st shot put
• Nicolette de Haan             1st high jump
• 4X100 metres relay team   1st

INTERMEDIATE GIRLS

• Brooke Harrison               1st 200 metres
• Stephanie Challis              3rd 1500 metres
• Courtney Poole                 2nd 3000 metres
• Caitlin Bedlington              1st 800 metres; 2nd 400 metres; 2nd 1500 metres
• 4x100 metres relay team    2nd

SENIOR GIRLS

• Ashleigh Mason               2nd 200 metres; 3rd 100 metres
• Melanie MacDougall         1st 400 metres
• Sahsa Green                    2nd 400 metres; 3rd 3000 metres
• Renee Coffey                   1st 800 metres; 1st 1500 metres; 3rd high jump
• Heu Sina                          2nd shot put
• Siobhan Edwards              1st triple jump; 2nd long jump; 3rd shot put;
• Jamie Whiteman               1st long jump; 1st high jump

WELLINGTON REGIONAL MEETING MARCH 9, 2010

Upper Hutt College sent its top athletes to the Wellington Championships on Tuesday March 9 where they competed against athletes from most other secondary schools in the Wellington region. Again, there were some top performers.

GIRLS

• Brooke Harrison                2nd 200 metres
• Caitlin Bedlington                 3rd 800 metres
• Renee Coffey                       3rd 800 metres
• Jamie Whiteman                  3rd high jump
• Siobhan Edwards                 2nd triple jump
• Finau Lauaki                        1st shot put

BOYS

• Tamati Campbell                1st javelin; 3rd discus
• Pride Petterson-Robati        2nd shot put