TBC Old Boys Update #2 2013
It has been a very busy term and outlined below are a number of the things the school and Old Boys have been involved with …. Check out the upcoming events at the end of the news & get back to me with anything I can add next time.
TBC Sport
Volleyball
Tauranga BC were back again as national champions in 2013 in a sport we have dominated at various times through the years. Last time we held the trophy was 2007. A smooth run through qualifying saw TBC up against Orewa College in the quarter finals - a game which was won 3-1. Next came South Island champions Nelson College in the semi-final and this was wrapped up 3-0 meaning TBC were pitted against reigning champs Western Heights HS in the final. They had a several Year 14s in their number & we had struggled against them in earlier clashes however the team played well throughout and emerged victorious in straight sets. Max Shroder, Caleb Aperahama & Brad Fullerton were all named in the tournament team while Max was player of the tournament. Yes – he is the son of Phil who was a TBC volleyball star in the 80’s.
Rowing
About 120 schools and more than 1500 athletes competed at the Maadi regatta held at Karapiro in tournament week. TBC produced some excellent results as 5th school in sculling & 13th in overall points. Top 10 badges were won by 6 crews in comparison with 3 in 2012. Individual highlights were gold in the U 18 quadruple sculls & U 18 double while the lightweight double won bronze. The Maadi 8 came a creditable 6th.
Kayaking
TBC sent a 28 strong team to Nationals held on the Tarawera River and performed outstandingly to come home with 25 individual & 16 team medals. This was enough for TBC to regain the Top Kayaking school trophy from Dunstan HS who had held it for the previous 2 years. Top performers were Callum Gilbert who won the best paddler at Under 18 level while Patrick Washer claimed the Under 16 title. Callum also contested the NZ Open K1 event in which he claimed silver behind Olympian Mike Dawson. Jack Daangen won the Under 16 Extreme Whitewater Freestyle title.
Tennis
Tennis nationals saw TBC secure a creditable 4th placing for 2013 with the highlight being Number 1 player Nick Brown remaining unbeaten for the second year in a row. The team beat Christs College & Palmerston North BHS but after a count-back loss to Scots College & so were 4th in the country. Victory over PNBHS meant that we were Super 8 champions as well.
Cricket
Playoffs for the Gillette Cup finals were contested in a tournament format over 3 days in Hamilton this year and our XI started superbly with a 105 run win over Gisborne BHS. Highlight of that game was Keaton Taylor’s maiden century for the school with 122. The semi-final saw an even larger winning margin with Mahurangi College beaten by 199 runs. The final saw TBC against Whangarei BHS and unfortunately they were too good for us winning by 5 wickets. Captain Ben Musgrave rounded off a good season for him with 107.
Yachting
Our sailors contested the Central North Island Team Racing Championships and won over Lindisfarne College. That result seeds the team in the Gold Fleet at Nationals to be held in the coming holidays.
Waka Ama
TBC had a contingent of 20 paddlers head over to Rotorua for this year’s national competitions where there were 91 schools and around 1500 competitors. There were no major prizes but our boys came away feeling they represented themselves & their school well.
Road Cycling
A growing number of students are regularly training on the road which was reflected in the results at the recent Waikato/BOP champs held at Taupo. Theo Wright won the Under 15 30 km race while Cullen Browne was 4th in the Under 16 60 km event.
Rugby 7s
Our Under 15 Sevens team competed at Nationals during tournament week and after winning 4 out of 5 pool games were contesting the top 8 positions. In the play-offs they lost to Gisborne & Hamilton Boys’ High Schools which left our final placing at 7th.
Surf Lifesaving
TBC had 12 students competing in the national Surf lifesaving championships held at the Mount Main Beach last month. A range of medals were won but the following all won gold in various events – Perry Farrell, Hadyn Reardon, Kane Sefton, Matt Hyde, Isaac Marshall, James Puchner & Dylan Williams.
Surfing
Mac Christie has been chosen to represent New Zealand in the Under 18 Boys’ team at the 2013 ISA World Surfing Champions to take place in Nicaragua in June. He won his first ever victory at national level in the Under 18 Boys Division at the Backdoor Grombash last weekend. Jordan Griffin is a non-travelling reserve for the same team.
Swimming
The 16 strong TBC team dominated the recent BOP Champs winning the 4x50m. freestyle relay in each of the 3 age groups & also coming 1st, 2nd & 3rd in the 3 age groups of the 50m. Medley relays. There were also 17 other individual medals.
Athletics
TBC won 2 titles at the North Island Secondary Schools championships with Ollie Ranby winning the Senior Boys 200m & Daniel Hintz the Intermediate 1500m.
Rugby
The 1st XV season has begun in promising fashion with a huge 99-6 win over Whangarei BHS in Whangarei ( 15 tries) followed by a 29 all draw against last year’s Auckland champions Sacred Heart. They had played 6 other games previously and were unbeaten including a comfortable win over our regular nemesis Rotorua BHS.
The team travelled to play Massey HS in Auckland and came away with a hard fought 22-13 win. The 2nd XV won their game also. Perhaps this is going to be our year…………
TBC Arts
2013 Arts Captain
Daniel Kulasingham has been appointed our Arts Captain for the year. Daniel has been strongly involved in the Arts from his Year 9 and this year has signed up for the Barbershop Quartet, Barbershop Chorus, Big Band #1 (national champions), T Jazz collective. Best bassist at nationals and is a leads in this year’s production of Joseph.
Jazz Festival
The 31st Easter Jazz Festival saw TBC with 3 entries in the annual competitions. Our Big Band and one of our Combos both won silver awards while the T Jazz collective (a combo featuring 3 students from each of TBC & TGC ) took out the supreme gold award for the third year in succession. This achievement has never been done before. Individual awards went to Daniel Kulasingham (Best Bassist), Andrew Robinson (Best Clarinet) & Adam Staples (Best Keyboard).
Debating
Competition has started for the year and the Senior team began successfully against Otumoetai College debating the affirmative of the moot ‘That life was better for our Grandparents than today”. In the Regional United Nations Association Speech Awards Matt Tomlinson came second.
Kapahaka
The first event for the year will be the Super 8 Cultural Festival which is to be held in Rotorua next month. The combined TBC/TGC Group will contest the Mataatua Regional Competitions in Term 3 with the Top 3 groups qualifying for the National competitions in 2014.
School Production
Casting is complete and rehearsals are under way for the 2013 production which is Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The show will play in the Graham Young Youth Theatre from July 2nd to the 6th with that Saturday night being an opportunity for Old Boys drinks before enjoying the show. Please let me know if you would like to be involved………
Old Boys Sports
Cricket
The local season is behind us and a very successful one for Bay of Plenty cricket. The Bay used 26 different players in its most successful season ever with 16 of those players being TBC Old Boys. The team holds all 3 Minor Association trophies with the Hawke Cup won & defended 3 times, as well as the Fergus Hickey Rosebowl and Brian Dunning Trophy for the 3day & one day competitions. Kane Williamson has headed to the UK in preparation for the BlackCaps tour next month while fellow Bay players Peter Drysdale, Bharat Popli, Sean Davey & Joe Carter have all gone to England to play while Mitch McCann & Brett Hampton are plying their trade in Holland.
Rugby League
Bodene Thompson has resumed his NRL career with Wests Tigers this season with his first match for them notching 50 matches at this level. His first 49 games were all for Gold Coast Titans.
Football
Tyler Boyd, who has just completed his first season with the Phoenix, has headed off to Germany to train with Wynton Rufer’s old club Werder Bremen in preparation for next month’s Fifa Youth Cup in Switzerland. He has 2 more year’s on his Phoenix contract after being upgraded from the club’s school of excellence.
Golf
Jay Carter, who has been resident professional at the Tauranga Golf Club for a number of years, starts a new job as High Performance coach with New Zealand Golf.
Yachting
The final regatta of the 2012-13 ISAF Sailing World Cup Series is about to get underway in Hyeres, France and we have 3 Old Boys competing. Thomas Saunders (Laser), Jason Saunders (Nacra 17) & Sam Meech (Laser) will join 800 of the world’s best sailors on the water this week. Earlier in the month Sam picked up the bronze medal in the Laser class at the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Palma.
Kayaking
Olympian Mike Dawson won back the national canoe slalom title at Kawerau last month. He missed nationals last year because of his Olympic build-up and was pleased to reclaim the title in his first event back since breaking his back in Chile in November.
Surf Lifesaving
Several old boys competed at the national masters surf lifesaving championships at Mt Maunganui in March. There were many notable achievements with national titles in relay events for Simon Oldham, Chris Emmett, Grant Ellison and Philip Rowe. Individual results included:
Simon Oldham - 3rd Run Swim Run, 3rd Surf race, 3rd Ironman. Philip Rowe 2nd Surf Race. Carl Sandford 2nd Beach flags.
Simon Oldham placed 3rd overall in the 40-49 mens' division - just 1 point behind the second place getter.
Sports Scholarships
Old Boy Mike Dudson who manages the High Performance Academy at the BOP Polytechnic announced the 2013 Sports Scholarships which pay for tuition fees and allow students to carry on training. Nine scholarships were awarded from 40 applicants with TBC Old Boys Sam Shergold (surf lifesaving), Ben Grindrod (squash), Carlos Savage (touch rugby) & Marshall Gibson (wrestling) receiving awards.
Old Boys Academic
Scholars Assembly
Our annual Assembly recognizing the performances of the previous year’s Scholarship results was addressed by Dr. Sam Toner who was Head Prefect in 1999. Sam is half way through training to be a surgeon at Tauranga Hospital. We attained 37 scholarships in 2012 which was our second best result ever.
Graduation
Canterbury University has released a press report about the graduation of Sam Bustard from their Mechanical Engineering Programme. Sam completed a final project in conjunction with Methanex and developed a test that could be used to predict if stainless steel tubes would be suitable for welding. This discovery has the potential to save Methanex tens of thousands of dollars.
TBC Arts
Gallery Space
Elliot Mason, who has completed a Fine Arts degree at Wintec in Hamilton, has returned to Tauranga and set up in the old Harrison’s Gallery in 11th Avenue. Harrison’s closed some time ago and Elliot is rebranding the space as Zeus and using it as his studio as well.
Events
July 6th – Joseph & the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat will have a special evening for Old Boys with pre-show drinks in the staffroom.
July 9th – AUCKLAND TBC Old Boys' catch up -Tuesday evening prior to the Westlake exchange the next day. Venue is yet to be determined BUT put this date in the diary & be prepared for a good night.
September 13th - Old Boys' annual sports day and annual dinner - More info to follow.
Please put the dates above in your diary & get along and support events where you are able.
Principal Robert Mangan has completed 5 years and will enjoy a sabbatical in Term 2. Mr Ian Stuart will be Acting Principal in his absence.
I hope the New Year has started well for you all and that I might catch up with a good number of you throughout 2013. The Old Boys Sports Day & Dinner on the 13th of September would be a good time for that !!
Kind Regards,
Rob Leslie
Old Boys Coordinator
