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:

  • Brandon Mudzekenyedzi                         High jump, long jump
  • Jayden Treviranus                                   100m

INTERMEDIATE BOYS

  • Fa'a Tu'uina                                            Shot put

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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