Secondary Sport

John McGlashan pupil Ben Lovelock flew to Orlando last month with the New Zealand Black Stacks to attend the world sport stacking championships.

Paul Wright has his sights set high after placing third in the open men's section of the 95km Classic race at the gruelling Contact Epic mountain bike event around Lake Hawea last month.

Kaikorai Valley College has just finished the first term of its three-year Sport in Education project. Craig Reddington, lead teacher for the project, explains.

King's High School pupil Dylan Edwards has a talented role model and would like to follow in his father's footsteps.

After 120 ''fiercely, but fairly'' contested games of football, rugby, hockey, basketball and netball, it proved impossible to separate Oamaru's and Timaru's top teams in the inaugural Southern Catholic Colleges Tournament on Monday.

The Otago Boys' High School colts (years 9-10) defended their title by convincingly winning all of their games at the NZCT finals in Palmerston North recently. This is only the second time in the history of the event that a school has won the title in successive years.

The annual Kaikorai Valley College 1000km Challenge and Sports Expo was held in March, along Kaikorai Valley Rd and on the school grounds.

Queen's High School has a small squad of rowing novices who have continued to improve with every regatta throughout the season.

The St Hilda's tennis team won the Otago secondary schools tournament, and will represent our region at the South Island tournament. The touch team also won the Otago tournament and will compete at the South Island tournament this month.

Do not ask Columba College pupil Devon Familton (13) to choose a favourite sport.