Rototuna High Schools Sports and Recreation

🌟 RHS Sport - People of the Week! 🌟

This week we wanted to acknowledge our 1st XI Hockey Coaches: Rudi Bosman (Mario) and Chad Payne (Luigi) who take our girls team, and Carmelo Maynard-holm and Alex Wilton who take the boys.

Thank you for braving the cold winter mornings and nights, and investing your time and energy into the development of some of our school's top hockey players!

To help us show our appreciation, our sponsors at The Keg Room have kindly given us some $20 vouchers to pass on to you 🙌

Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou!

All the very best to Crystal, Victoria, Jahan, and Kupa who head off to Wellington today to compete in the NZ Secondary Schools Cross Country Champs.

The race is held tomorrow, and we look forward to sharing the results with you.

GYMSPORTS SUCCESS 🤸🏽‍♀️

Congrats to our RHS Gymsports Team who competed at the Hamilton City Novice Champs today.

We sent 14 students to this event ranging from yr 7 to yr 10, and we are so proud to announce that all 14 of them qualified for the Waikato Regional schools championships to be held on August 26th!

We had several podium finishes for the day:
🥇🏆 1st - Group performance (Gymnaestrada division)
🥇🏆 1st - Iva Ariawan - Trampoline Jnr Advanced
🥇🏆 1st - Charlotte Kim - Tumble Junior 3
🥇🏆 1st - Savannah Lux - Tumble Junior 4
🥈 2nd - Piper Owen - Artistic - GfA Lvl 4
🥈2nd - Savannah Lux - Trampoline Jnr Advanced
🥈2nd - Kadi-Belle Ross - Tumble Junior 4
🥈2nd - Iva Ariawan - Tumble Junior 3
🥉3rd - Tayla Pope - Tumble Junior 3

Well done team, and a massive shout out to Rach, our awesome TIC of Gymsports, for getting them all competition ready!

Remember that our very popular Netball Skills Camps are back in the July School Holidays for years 7/8 and yrs 5/6.

Register here: https://forms.gle/gP7iU9ZvTNRthEz56

This is an excellent fundraiser for our Nettie girls representing RHS in Fiji at the end of the year at an International Netball Festival! And they love having the opportunity to pass on their skill set and knowledge to our next generation of nettie superstars. Sign up today!

NFL Flag Football 15U Nationals 🤩🏈

An epic couple of days in the capital for our RHS 15U Flag Football team last week!

After taking out the Waikato Bay of Plenty regionals a few weeks ago, our ākonga were flown down to Wellington in an all expenses paid trip to compete in the NZ Nationals! Travelling teams were put up at the incredible NZCIS facility, where we took part in training sessions run by NZ representatives and other team building activities, followed by the tournament the following day.

Our team started off strong, winning our first two games and finishing second in our pool. A tough quarter final against eventual bronze medalists meant we missed out on making top 4, but our team continued to give it their all, finishing 6th in NZ overall 💪🏽🏅.

This trip was an unforgettable experience for our team, with many core memories, new friendships and connections made!

We’d like to give a huge shoutout to team coach, Pene Kaisala, for his support and expertise over the last couple of months, as well as to all the whānau who travelled down to support us from the sidelines 🫶🏽.

And finally, a big ngā mihi to nflflagaunz and their staff, for hosting our team and giving our ākonga the experience of a lifetime 🙌🏽.

Hopefully we get to do it all again next year 🏉🏆🤞🏽

🏐 Netball Spotlights 🏐

🏐Senior Hammerheads:
The team has had a fantastic start to the season, consistently improving every week and continuing to grow together as a team.

Last week, in pouring rain, they secured an incredible one-goal victory over HGHS after trailing by 9 goals at halftime! These girls truly know how to rally together, support one another, and rise to the challenge when it matters most.

🏐Yr7 Kahikatea:
This team has had an outstanding start to the season, winning all three of their games and currently sitting 1st on the B Grade ladder.

The girls have demonstrated exceptional determination, sportsmanship, and commitment throughout the season so far. Their hard work at training and positive attitude on the court are clearly reflected in their results, and they should be incredibly proud of what they have achieved to date.

We look forward to watching their continued growth, development, and success throughout the rest of the season.

Keep up the hard work!💪🏽🏐

Jacob Solly – Counties Gymnastics Championships

A fantastic start to the competition season for Jacob at the Counties Gymnastics Championships in Auckland, where he competed in his first Level 6 competition. His dedication and hard work in training shone through, delivering an impressive performance across all six apparatus.

Jacob achieved podium finishes on three events, claiming 1st place on High Bar, equal 3rd on Parallel Bars, and 3rd on Vault. He also finished an outstanding 4th overall in a strong field of competitors.

To top off a successful weekend, Jacob achieved qualification for the Gymnastics NZ National Championships with a score of 62.75 — a fantastic achievement and one he can be incredibly proud of. Congratulations, Jacob! 🏅👏

We would love to see our RHS Volunteers recognised. Please jump on over to Sport Waikato’s and tell them about a worthy volunteer within our sports community you think is deserving 💕

👉 COMPETITION TIME! 🏆

It’s nearly Te Wiki Tūao ā-Motū | National Volunteer Week (14-20 June) and we want you to show some love to those people who are the heartbeat of your club, school or community groups. ❤️ 💛🖤

Volunteers are the spark behind so much movement in the greater Waikato. They coach, organise, transport, encourage, lead, deliver and give their time so others can move, play and connect!

👉 Tell us about an awesome volunteer in the comments below and we’ll randomly select 5 volunteers to receive a $50 petrol voucher as a small thank you for everything they do.

❤ LIKE the Sport Waikato page
❤ TAG a sport volunteer - a coach, administrator, umpire... anyone who helps sport happen and tell us why you're nominating them
❤ TAG as many volunteers as you like in separate posts and tell us why they are so deserving

Whether they're coaching on cold winter mornings, organising behind the scenes, driving teams around, running events, delivering active recreation or supporting their community in countless other ways, we want to hear about them.

🎉 Let's celebrate the people who help keep Waikato moving!

🫶 Entries close midnight Saturday 20 June, with the winners announced on Monday 22 June.

WIMS Football ⚽

A great day out was had by our Girls and Boys yr7/8 Football teams at WIMS Football on Tuesday at Jansen Park and Berkley School.

Our girls went through the day with 2 wins, 2 losses, and a draw to finish 5th.

Our boys had 3 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw to also finish 5th.

We are so very proud of both teams, and a massive thank you to our coaches Gareth, Erin, and Laura, to our amazing TIC Philly, and to all of our wonderfully supportive families that came out to watch.

WBOP CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPS 🏃🏽‍♀️👟🏃🏽‍♀️

On Wednesday, we took 13 RHS students to compete in the Waikato / Bay of Plenty Secondary Schools Champs at Mangatarata in the Hauraki Plains.

Our athletes shone on a genuine cross country course, with steep inclines and descents, mud, a stream crossing, and including a section called "heartbreak hill" 😂

They all battled and kept going, giving everything they had with some notable top 20 finishes:

🥉 Crystal Burgess - 3rd Senior Girls
Jahan Moore - 9th Yr 9 Boys
Nathan Woolerton - 13th Junior Boys
Victoria Burgess - 17th Senior Girls

Good luck to our 4 athletes heading off to NZ Secondary Schools Cross Country Champs in Wellington on June 20th - Crystal, Jahan, Victoria, and Kupa.