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.
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 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.
The Dunstan High School senior A boys basketball team travelled to Westport for the South Island Secondary Schools Tournament for schools under 600. The team won the championship 83-63 in the final against Garin College of Nelson. This was the second time Dunstan has won this event having won previously in 2008 in Timaru.
Congratulations to the South Otago High School A netball team, winner of the B grade section of the recent South Island secondary schools tournament in Dunedin. It was unbeaten in its grade of 32 teams. The whole team worked together well and really dug deep in the final against Cashmere.
During the July holidays, 32 pupils and 14 parents headed to Cairns to take part in a 12-day sporting/cultural tour.
Two netball teams and a rugby team played against three schools in Cairns, Innisfail and Port Douglas. The rugby team was triumphant, winning all three games, while the netball girls won three out of six games.