Sport

The provision of facilities of the highest quality coupled with hardworking staff, has enabled St Cuthbert's College to achieve outstanding results at a regional and national level in a number of sports.

The College also maintains a high level of participation with an action packed programme.

As well as catering for top athletes the programme aims to include students of all abilities with teams arranged for all girls who wish to participate.
For a complete novice, trials can be difficult, but the sports department works hard to ensure students are matched with others of a similar ability to learn and grow together.  In some cases knowledge of the rules may be required prior to entering a competition.

 

Useful Links
www.aucklandnetball.co.nz
www.collegesport.co.nz
www.sportcheck.co.nz

ASB Young Sports Person of the Year Award Winners

Four St Cuthbert’s girls won exceptional ASB YSPOTY category awards, one for Yachting and one for Table Tennis and two as All-Rounders.
Ellie Copeland, Y11, winner of the Yachting category, is an outstanding sailor who raced a SL16 multihull and placed 5th in Croatia earlier this year in the Youth ISAF World Championships.
She is a member of the Wakatere Boating Club, who awarded her Top Junior Female in their 2010-2011 season prize giving and has had many yachting wins this year including the winning female in the Starling class at the Auckland Secondary Schools’ Fleet Race.
Our second category winner, Jennifer Tseng, Y12, won the Table Tennis category.
She has won the U19 Girls’ Singles at both the 2009 and 2011 New Zealand Secondary School Table Tennis Championships.
We had two All-Rounder Award winners, Theresa Fitzpatrick, Y12 and Elise Salt, Y12.
Theresa Fitzpatrick is following in the footsteps of her older sister, the recently selected Silver Fern, Sulu Tone-Fitzpatrick. Theresa is an avid Netball and Touch player. In Netball earlier this year she was in the team which came 4th representing the Pacific Rim in the annual Trans Tasman Secondary Schools’ Netball Tournament.
For Touch, Theresa was chosen in early 2011 as a member of the U17 Auckland Waitakere Academy and to play in the U17 NZ Touch Rugby Development Team.
Elise Salt is an exceptional athlete and is part of the Senior A Cycling Team at the College which currently holds all secondary school Road Race Cycling titles in NZ. She came 2nd in the NZ Secondary Schools’ Triathlon Championships in March, and was named in the Triathlon NZ Youth Academy for 2011/2012, along with other wins at the Auckland Secondary Schools’ Triathlon and Aquathon Championships.
Her most recent success though, was this month when she won the 15-19 year age group and was the first female overall in the sprint distance event at the Auckland ITU Triathlon World Cup.
The College had six more finalists for the awards; Devon Hiley, Y12 - Cycling , captain of the College’s Senior A Cycling Team Elise Salt, Y12 - Cycling, member of the College’s Senior A Cycling Team Harriet Smith, Y13 - Equestrian, member of the College’s Equestrian Team which placed 1st in the mixed A/B Division at the Auckland ASB Eventing competition Jesse Hamilton, Y12 - Golf , won the World Masters of Golf Junior Golf Tournament in Las Vegas Briana Mitchell, Y13 - Gymnastics, qualified for the Gymnastics World Championships this year and represented NZ in the Commonwealth Games in 2010 Rebecca Gray - Orienteering, won the Women’s U18 Oceania Sprint event and came 3rd in the Oceania Women’s U20 Relay at the Oceania Orienteering Carnival in Australia.
The awards recognise keen and talented young sports people who show outstanding commitment and skill in their chosen sports.