Sports News Term 4, Week 2

Coaches Spotlight

We want to take this opportunity to highlight some of the outstanding coaches working with our athletes here at St Margaret’s College. This week we would like to introduce…..

Basketball

Evie Leeson was selected and played over the weekend in the Rapid League game vs Northern Kahu for the Mainland Pouākai. They are the team representing the Upper South region in the GJ Gardner Homes Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa competition. 

Futsal

Congratulations to Trelise McEwan, who has been selected for the Canterbury U17 Girls Futsal Team. She will compete in the National Competition in Kilbirnie in December.  

Gymnastics

Over the holidays, the 2024 Gymnastics Championships were held in Palmerston North from 7-12 October. Congratulations to Cherry Zhu, Hannah Jia, and Stella Lee, who all came away with amazing results.

Cherry and her teammates won a Gold medal and trophy in the grade 6 group. She then competed in the Junior International All Around, where she placed 2nd overall and qualified for the finals in all apparatus. In the apparatus finals, she received a silver medal in hoop (with first place scoring only 0.05 higher than her), a silver medal in Clubs, a silver medal in Ribbon and placed 5th in ball. 

Stella, from year 4, was crowned the Rhythmic Gymnastics, Stage 3, Overall National Champion, with gold medals in Rope, ball, and Hoop and a Silver in Free.

Hannah Jia received 1st in hoop, clubs, ball and ribbon, placing her 1st overall. Her outstanding results gained her selection into the New Zealand team for 2025, for the international competition in Canada (Koop Cup). Congratulations on the outstanding results from these young athletes at the 2024 National Championships!

Hockey

Final results for the Hockey Season

1st XI = 2nd in SPL, 7th at Fed Cup

2nd XI = 2nd SSL Div 1, Won Chris Arthur Tournament:))))

Red Team = 1st SSL Div 2

White Team = 7th SSL Div 2

Green Team = 1st SSL Div 3

Blue Team = 6th in Div 3

Silver Team = 5th in SSL Div 4

Koru Games

The Koru Games is a multi-day sports tournament for South Island Year 7 and 8, hosted by Selwyn Sports Trust, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year.

St Margaret’s College had a hockey team in the Mixed Social grade, which came away with a Silver medal, and a netball team in the Mixed grade, which finished a credible 8th out of 32 teams—well done to all the girls who participated. 

Rugby 7sMahuika 7's winners!

On Thursday, September 19, SMC sent 3 teams, totaling 40 athletes, to the Mahuika 7s tournament.

Two teams were composed of young players, many of whom had never played rugby before. They gave it their all and learned so much about 7s and themselves over the course of the day. All finished with sore bodies but smiling faces.

The Senior team breezed through pool play, winning the two games 53-0 and 42-10. In the semi, they faced a strong Rangiora team and came away with a 21-10 win.

In the final, the team faced a solid Avonside team. SMC was in control the whole game and finished with a 35-20 win.

Congratulations girls!

Swimming

During the holidays, Canterbury Swimming named two target squads working towards Olympic selection:

Millie Bell has been named to the Canterbury Target 2028 Squad

Olivia Vivian has been named to the Canterbury Target 2032 Squad

The Squads aim to give these swimmers an opportunity to access the necessary training, performance sport-specific education, support, and overseas racing experience to reach the ultimate goal of Olympic selection.

What an outstanding achievement, girls! We wish you all the best with your training!