These articles are compiled by the Otago Secondary Schools Sports Association which is proudly sponsored by Perpetual Guardian.
King's High School
Cody Callaghan has been selected to represent the NZSS smallbore rifle-shooting team to compete against Great Britain. This followed the selection of Callaghan, Nic Brosnahan and Danny Latta to represent the SISS team against the North Island after the King's team travelled to Blenheim for the NZSS championships and finished third.
Josh Aitcheson has been selected to represent the New Zealand under-19 Junior Tall Blacks basketball team. King's finished in 19th position overall, second of the South Island schools competing. Josh played his 100th game for the school's senior A side and was the tournament's leading points-scorer.
During the holidays, the school had 39 footballers representing Otago in various age-group tournaments from under-13 to under-16 levels with boys in the under-14 blue and under-16 teams winning their respective grades.
The hockey team attended the Rankin Cup and was seventh overall and second-best South Island school after beating Christchurch Boys' High 6-1 in the seventh-eighth playoff.
Brothers Toby and Ryan Evans were successful in the recent NZSS weightlifting competitions in which Toby won a national title in the under-15 77kg class and Ryan finished third in the NZ under-15, under-56kg category.
Riley Symon fenced well in the South Island champs open foil and epee competition, and then went on to win the national under-23 men's epee title.
Logan Park High School
School sports co-ordinator and head of sport Francine Vella has won a Peter Sharp NZSSSC school study award to visit Victoria in November. She will visit secondary schools with successful, innovative approaches to sport.
Pupils enjoyed their-10 day sports trip to Australia to play Kingaroy High School in volleyball, basketball and touch over the September holidays.
In senior futsal, the side won the boys division 2 competition and was second in the boys division 1.
The school held its sporting blues awards celebrating top performances and service to sport in September. Tayla Ward and Jonty Horwell won the John Letts Awards for outstanding achievement in sport. Tayla has been a New Zealand representative in luge and won the women's division of the Austrian Cup and the NZ Open luge cup. Jonty has been the top New Zealand secondary schools indoor and outdoor bowler for three years.
Ben Deaker has been named the captain of the NZ schools diving team. Ben won bronze in the team synchro event at the Australian-New Zealand School Games in New South Wales and won four golds in the South Island champs in September.
In the co-ed schools cross-country champs, Henri Gaudin won the senior boys and Rebecca Dalphin won the junior girls sections.
Otago representative goalkeeper Ben Dubyk was named most valuable player at the South Island football tournament in Timaru. He will compete in the national age-group tournament later this term.
The Get2Go teams enjoyed competing in kayaking, mountain biking and orienteering in September.
Kaikorai Valley College
Tessa Brownlie (yr 10) and Kruz Cleminson (yr 12), members of the Kaikorai Valley College judo club, competed at the South Island championships last term. Tessa gained a silver medal in the cadet girls open and a bronze medal in the senior girls open. Kruz secured a silver medal in the under-81kg cadets men.
Tessa and Kruz travelled to Auckland to compete at the judo nationals. Tessa won bronze medals in the senior girls under-60kg and senior girls open. Kruz won bronze medals in junior men's under-81kg and in cadet men's under-81kg.
Hanna Ingram (yr 10) won a gold medal in Kyorugi (sparring) and a gold medal in the pairs Poomsae (patterns) at the taekwondo nationals in Christchurch last month.
Kasib Murdoch (yr11) represented the Otago team at the boxing nationals in Rotorua over winter. He won all his fights, taking first in the junior male 57kg division and was named most scientific junior boxer and also best fighter in the Otago team.
Shaun Simpson (yr 13) was selected to represent the NZ junior smallbore rifle-shooting team and is the Otago Schools champion for 2016.
East Otago High School
During the first week of the holidays, three East Otago High School students played for the Otago Metro team in the under-16 South Island rugby tournament in Christchurch. Bob Martin captained this team and played halfback, Josh Ollerenshaw was the hooker and Breeshyn Witehira played lock. They played three games, winning one against Otago Country 42-22 and losing two, against South Canterbury 32-19 and Nelson Bays 36-19 for an overall placing of sixth.
Kayle Harris competed for the 14th grade North Otago team at the South Island football tournament in Christchurch. The team played eight games over three days.
The touch season is well under way and, after getting the award for outstanding rookie of 2015-16 for the Otago under-21 mixed touch team, 18-year-old head student Jessie Scurr has again been selected to play for this team.
Roxburgh Area School
The holidays were a busy time for some of our students with Tiaan Mc Kinnel gaining second place and winning the youth grade in the Otago duathlon championships.
Jonty McKinnel represented the Otago Country under-18 rugby team that finished fifth at the South Island tournament in Lincoln.
Brooke Johnston won four of five classes in the Otago showjumping championship .
Daniel Arnesen was part of the Otago under 16-19 team at the interprovincial golf championships and was placed sixth. Jesse Orchard won the Intermediate championship at the Roxburgh Golf Club.
This term, students are training for the Central Otago touch tournament in Cromwell and the junior sports week in Dunedin.
John McGlashan College
Winter tournament went well, notable results being the football first XI winning the Linwood trophy in Invercargill. The junior curling team picked up a bronze in the nationals at Nasby.
The school swimming sports again produced record times. Courtland Ellis broke records in the senior boys 50m and 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly and 100m medley. The Gilray junior relay team of Max Wolf, Eli Hamilton, Tim Churnside and David Cannon broke the relay record. Drew Schievink again put on a masterful display of diving.
Trap shooters Shane Sanders and Harry Russell finished first and third respectively in the national individual Fish and Game event. Archie Calder finished first in the South Island junior single barrel.
At Otago rowing erg championships, Bailey Dowling, Jack McLaughlan and Maz Gomez all won their 2000m event in the under-15, under-16 and under-17 age-groups respectively. JMC also won the relay event.
Taekwondo exponent Lachlan Ellis picked up a gold medal in the sparring male, and fifth in the first Gup at the Oceania championships.
Dom Morrison and Will Edwards recently attended the Basketball New Zealand national development camp in Christchurch.
The sports council had a successful golf tournament at the end of term three. Funds raised will support sport at the College. The Get2Go challenge team combined with St Hilda's to win the Otago-Southland event. The winner gets to go to the national final on Great Barrier Island. Unfortunately, St Hilda's can't go so the Get2Go is no go.
Otago Girls' High School
The football first XI won the Gary Snowden South Island satellite tournament during winter sports week. This is the second year in a row OGHS has won this tournament.
The climbing team of Alana Donkin, Millie Bray, Sian Meffan and Silkie Allott was third in the girls team section of the SISS climbing competition.
The senior A basketball team finished 13th in the SISS tournament in Christchurch. A feature of this team is that there are three sets of sisters: the Hauas, Ballantynes and Matehaeres. Coach Natalie Visger has since been named as the head coach for the New Zealand under-16 girls basketball team.
At the Dunedin Netball Centre prizegiving, the following girls were recognised: under-14A MVP, Talei Pelasio; under-14B MVP, Dana Ballantyne; under-19 best team contribution, Kiana Pelasio; best junior umpire, Sian Meffan.
Storm Maole was selected in the SISS rugby tournament team.
The Icicles (Claire Hudson, Nika Wood, Rejoice Lien and Honor Sandall) won a silver medal at the NZSS curling competition.
At the NZSS cross-country skiing championships, Charlotte Becconsall-Ryan was third and Alice Moran first in the top novice section.
Renee Perenara, Nikita Mcdonald, Khata Pearce and Tahlia Roome all competed at the taekwondo nationals in Christchurch where they all medalled.
Alana Donkin, Rebecca McNaughton and Charlotte Becconsall-Ryan were placed third in the junior division of the six-hour adventure race in the Women's Spring Challenge.
St Hilda's Collegiate School
St Hilda's achieved excellent results at the New Zealand Competitive Aerobics Federation hip-hop and aerobics NZSS champs in mid-September, winning the shield for overall aggregate points and coming away with three first placings, two second placings and two third placings.
The St Hilda's junior A basketball team won the junior SISS AA Zone 4 girls championship, rounding out a perfect season for the team.
The St Hilda's Condor sevens team beat South Otago High School in the qualifying games prior to the school holidays and now goes on to compete at the NZSS Condor sevens in Auckland in December. The girls won 2-0 in a best-of-three competition.
The highlight of the St Hilda's senior A netball team's season was winning the SISS championship. The team played some impressive games and was unbeaten throughout the week, beating Southland Girls' in the semifinal and going on to down Marlborough Girls 44-43 in the final. The team qualified for the NZSS championship in Lower Hutt during the school holidays and finished 11th.
Four swimmers from the St Hilda's swimming team competed in the NZSS swimming championships in Wellington. Outstanding performances included silver medals for Cecilia Crooks in the girls 15 years 200m and 400m freestyle and Jessica Scott in the girls 13 years 50m butterfly, 200m butterfly and 100m butterfly.
Dunstan High School
Dunstan High School had a squad of four students competing at the NZSS mountain biking championships in Dunedin over the school holidays. Some great results were achieved with each student gaining a podium finish. Dunstan was 13th overall of a total of 62 schools that attended.
The school's clay target team also competed in the NZSS nationals event over the holidays with reasonable success, the highlight being a second placing in the individual points score.
Dunstan cyclist Nicole Shields capped off a busy and successful year with a second placing in the NZSS under-20 road race and third in the under-20 points race.
Maniototo Area School
The school had three teams in the secondary school curling tournaments.
The boys top team of Matthew Neilson, Ben Smith, Anton Hood and Peter Cheesmur won the boys gold medals in both the SISS and NZSS tournaments after comfortable wins in both finals against OBHS.
The boys second team of Emmett Dowling, Will Becker, Sam Flanagan, Cody Howell, Zac Howell and Fletcher Dowling was unlucky to miss out on the bronze medal in the playoff in both tournaments.
The Maniototo girls team of Courtney Smith, Tash Whyte, Lucy Neilson and Anna Clarke dominated the OGHS team in the SISS tournament with three clear wins to take home the gold medals. The girls had an unbeaten round robin at the NZSS tournament and claimed the final with a 17-1 win against OGHS, the first time since 2002 the girls team has won the national title.
Harry McAslan played for the Dunedin Thunder in the four-day final for the NZ under-14 ice hockey league against Christchurch, Auckland and Queenstown. After a hard-fought final, Thunder secured the silver medal.
Harry has also been selected to be a part of Kiwi Force, a team of under-14 rep players from Dunedin, Tekapo and Auckland traveling to Adelaide in November to play in the International Pee-Wee tournament.
Harry attended trials and made the Southern Knights team for the 2016 Friendship Tournament in Minnesota in March. This is an 11-13 aged team combined from Gore, Dunedin, Tekapo, Alexandra, and Queenstown.
Madi Pont played for the Central Otago team in the under-15 girls hockey tournament in Nelson during the holidays. It played seven games, and finished in 13th place.
Hayden Clarke, Hayden Becker and William Helm played in the under-13 Central Otago development team at a tournament in Gore The side finished third after beating West Coast 3-1.