College Sport Wellington

National Champs – Wellington College 1st XI win Gillette Cup

“Bugger this one’s down the drain,” Tim Robinson concedes he and most of his Wellington College First XI cricket teammates were thinking late on Friday afternoon at the Lincoln Oval in Christchurch. In the penultimate fixture of the national championships, Auckland winners King’s College only required two runs for victory to end Wellington’s unbeaten streak. […]

Josephine Reeves (Chilton) and Imogen Skilton (Marsden) grab 1st & 2nd in High Jump

Those watching the closing stages of last Sunday’s Senior Girls High Jump at the NZSSA Track and Field Championships in Dunedin on Sunday had every had reason to be confident a 28-year meet record might be broken. “I cleared 1.75m and so had Imogen Skelton [Samuel Marsden Collegiate]. She missed the next height which would […]

Four named in NZ U15 squad for Oceania Basketball Champs

Basketball New Zealand has named the Aon New Zealand Boys’ basketball team to compete in the FIBA Oceania U15 Championships currently being played in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, which includes four Wellingtonians. Benjamin Gold (Tawa College) and Tafara Gapare (Scots) are named in the team, while Max Abbot (Wellington College) and Piripi Tapsell (Scots) were […]

Wellington athletes do well at Nationals

Congratulations to the following students who placed at the National Secondary School Athletics Championships in Dunedin over the weekend. Gold Cam Robinson (Wellington College) SB Javelin Josephine Reeves (Chilton St James) SG High Jump Corran Hanning (Wellington College) Multi Grade Para Discus Silver Elizabeth Hewitt (Chilton St James) JG Shotput Max Abbot (Wellington […]

Wellington teams do well at Condor Sevens

Scots College, Silverstream, St Mary’s Colllege, and Wainuiomata High School Girls did themselves proud at the recent Condor Sevens. Scots College were unlucky not to make the final, as they lost last second in the Cup semi-finals to Rototrua Boys’. St Mary’s College won the plate Final, after earlier loosing to eventually champions Howick College […]