Twelve records fell at the weekend's Otago-Southland secondary school's athletics championships, in Invercargill.
Eight of those records went to Otago athletes and John McGlashan College's Josh Hou claimed two.
The middle distance runner bettered both the under-14 boys 1500m and 3000m marks.
In the 1500m he managed a time of 4min 30.93sec, to break Josh Browne's record by less than a second.
He backed that up by running 9min 59.37sec in the 3000m, a time marginally quicker than Oli Chignell's record.
Three Mount Aspiring College athletes claimed records.
Jack East ran an impressive 52.53sec in the senior boys 400m to break the old mark of 52.90sec.
In the under-14 girls, Zoe Smith smashed the 1500m record with a time of 4min 48.98sec, well under the record of 4min 55.40sec which had stood since 1999.
Janus Staufenberg made it three for the school in the senior boys 1500m.
He ran 3min 58.89sec to better the old mark of 4min 01.38sec.
Taieri College, Otago Boys' High School and King's High School each picked up a record, as well.
Zharna Beattie, of Taieri, threw 39.43m to smash the girls under-15 discus record of 33.81m.
Cameron Moffitt ran 11.76sec to take 0.13sec off the under-14 boys 80m hurdles record.
In the under-15 boys 4x100m relay King's ran 47.11sec to blitz the field and claim the record.
Southlanders to break records were Emma Ryan, Andrew Allan and Teagan Ashley.
Ryan, of James Hargest College, broke both the senior girls shot put and hammer throw records with 13.11m and 45.75m, respectively.
In the hammer throw, Fiordland College's Dyani Shepherd-Oates also bettered the old record, throwing 44.95m.
Gore High School's Andrew Allan broke the senior boys triple jump record with 13.61m and Aparima College's Teagan Ashley threw 37.77m to break the under-15 girls hammer record.
The South Island secondary schools championships will be held in Dunedin this weekend.
-By Jeff Cheshire
