Recent Success Stories
The 2009 highlights could start with Mountain Biking. Some of our students were competing in the 2008/9 New Zealand Series during the last summer holiday and February this year. They were in far places from Greymouth as Auckland & Taupo in the North Island or Blenheim, Timaru & Queenstown in the South Island. Then the Greymouth HS MTB team, made up of 10 students, competed in the Canterbury-Huxster series held in Christchurch in March. Finally, they went to Levin to compete in the New Zealand Champs during the first school break in April where Jed Findlay finished in the top 15 XC NZ U17 riders. .Also, the team competed in the South Island SS Champs (9-11th October, Blenheim) where Greymouth High School finished in the overall table 11 out of 41 schools. See www.bikenz.org for full results.
Athletics
We started with Athletics activities early in the year as well. Our school celebrated its Athletic day with more than 500 students & staff attending and enjoying the day on the week 4 of Term 1. The school one more time organised the West Coast event but unlikely and due a persistent bad weather condition the event has to be cancelled to next year. Then, our school team attended the Canterbury Athletic Champs held in CHCH where 2 of our boys reached excellent results.
Rugby
Rugby kick off this year with the WC 7’s for junior Boys and Open girls. The school with the West Coast rugby union were in charge of the organization played at Blaketown fields.
Greymouth high school presented 2 boys and 2 girls’ teams. They finished champions and 3rd in boys and girls.
Then, it was the turn for our 1st XV to play the Brockbank-Graves Cup, a tough competition played trough T1 and T2 by our team, Westland High school, Buller High school and Rangiora HS.
The end of this competition gets our team at the top of all, improving the last year performance when they were runner up.
In April the Boys Senior 7’s Champ was played, also. There were two Greymouth High School teams in that competition. They finished in the 1st and 3rd position each one.
Finally, our Girls 1st XV team had an impressive performance against Westland High and then same of our girls went to play a representing the West Coast in Christchurch.
Equestrian
The WC Open was held in Westport where our strong team finished 1st.
Football
It was another important year for Greymouth High Football. We kicked off the season with the WC 6 a side tournament. There were 3 boys’ and 3 girls’ teams competing.
There was also a team representing the school thought the season in the senior grade of the local competition and one more in the boys U17 grade. In addition, many more students played for different clubs.
The boys’ school team made also, a couple of trips to play against Buller HS and South Westland HS, plus the trip to Invercargill where we play the Trident Cup during tournament week.
The girls’ team played against Buller HS as a part of the Sport Exchange and then attended the Secondary School Satellite tournament held in Christchurch during tournament week.
The high light of the year is the selection of our student Laiken Richardson in the Canterbury team that played the National tournament in Gisborne and then her nomination to represent the New Zealand U15 team touring Australia.
Netball
Many good performances reached our Netball teams.
Junior: we presented 2 teams in the WC Champ, both teams reached the final where the A team beat the B team, finishing then in 1st and 2nd position respectively.
It was the turn for our junior rep to go to the South Island tournament. Our novel students had an outstanding tournament in the strongest division (Y9 & Yr10 Girls) finishing 7 of 24 teams... well done girls!
Senior: after winning the Flora Beynon trophy for 5th year in a row, the team went down to Timaru to attend the tournament week.
They finishing 6th out of 16 teams, improving last year performance so much. Another well done for you girls!
Hockey
I left hockey to the end because our hockey team performed on the top for one more year. Our boys’ team won the SS Coaches Cup Tournament played in Ashburton and our girls’ team was runner up of the Audrey Timlin Memorial Tournament played in Christchurch. Both teams have won the right to go to play in a higher division next year. Our girls’ team will be playing in the top division!!! Well done and good luck for next year.
Sports Manager