TBC Old Boys Update #3 2013
Hi everyone,
It has been a busy last week with the Old Boys Association hosting a Drinks and Nibbles event before the TBC/TGC productionof Joseph and the Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat in the Graham Young Youth Theatre which was an outstanding success and also a well supported Auckland function.
On August 5th we have our Annual General Meeting in the TBC staffroom beginning at 7 p.m. At this meeting we have traditionally awarded life membership and this year is no different with Gillian Gemming being honoured in this way. Gill served as Chair of the Board of Trustees for years, had her 4 sons through the school and has been a significant driving force in the success of our hockey programme as she is Director of Coaching for the sport. Blackstick Andy Hayward will be present and it would be great to have a big turnout, particularly of our hockey community.
Our annual Sports Day & dinner are on Friday September 13th so dust off those sports shoes and clear the diary so you can come along to the dinner where Rocky Horror Show writer Richard O’Brien is Guest Speaker. Go tohttp://tbcoba.org.nz/ for tickets and more information.
We have always played rugby, football, basketball, volleyball and hockey as part of this event but we are now looking to arrange Old Boys T20 cricket and tennis in December or January so please let us know if you are interested.
TBC Academic
University Studies
Thirty one TBC students undertook studies at the University Waikato in their first semester and all passed their papers in Economics, Philosophy, Statistics and Chemistry. More than 32 “A” passes were achieved with the stand out performance being that of Todd Harris who scored A+ grades in Chemistry, Statistics, Philosophy & Economics. Todd was top student of almost 200 taking Chemistry with 99.1% and has been offered a $5000 scholarship to assist one of the lecturers with their research during the summer holidays.
Youth Parliament
Head Prefect and 1st XV Captain Mungo Mason will travel to Wellington in the July holidays to be a Youth Parliament Representative for MP Simon Bridges working on the Select Committee for Health. Mungo will miss the first 2 days of Parliament as he has been picked in the Chiefs Under 18 training squad and they are training for a match against the Blues or Hurricanes the second week of the holiday break.
TBC Sport
Rugby
The promising 1st XV season has continued with the only loss being 27-28 to strong Super 8 rivals Hamilton BHS in the Chiefs Cup. St Paul’s Collegiate were comfortably beaten 35-14 and in the first Super 8 match of the season perennial bugbears Rotorua BHS were accounted for 31-26. Things have been tougher in the last encounters with disappointing 1 point losses to New Plymouth and Palmerston North BHS while in a rematch with Hamilton the score again was in the visitors favour with the result ending 24- 29.
A highlight for the team has been their training session running live defensive screens against the All Blacks before the French test in Auckland.
Old Boys Todd Jennings, Simon Oldham, Ra Walker, Charles Baxter, Jason Hona & Richard Craven enjoy 1st XV rugby on Nicholson Field.
Cross Country
Bay of Plenty Championships were held recently at Waipuna Park and TBC had a perfect event winning the Junior, Intermediate and Senior 3 and 6 man events as well as each individual title with Korban Eades (son of Old Boy Neville), Daniel Hintz and Luke Bradshaw respective winners.
Squash
The Bay of Plenty Secondary School Squash Championships has been held and TBC were dominant claiming the top 6 individual places. Joe Lyons emerged victoriousbeating Josh Oakley in the final.
Sailing
During the last holidays our sailors travelled to Taupo to contest the National Secondary School Team Racing Championships. The side began very well, but frustrated by light winds towards the end of the competition they were overhauled by Kerikeri by 1 point. This second result was enough to qualify for the InterDominions in Brisbane later in the year.
Following in the traditions of Olympians Peter Burling and Jason Saunderssailor Trent Rippey won the Under 19 Starling Nationals in Picton which is the largest single handed youth class with over 100 boats competing. Trent also joined up with younger brother Cole to place 2nd in the 29er nationals.
Water Polo
Fifteen teams contested the National Championships however TBC drew the toughest pool and began with 2 losses to top Auckland schools Westlake BHS and Sacred Heart. From there on they were unbeaten and eventually were 5th= with Hamilton BHS whom they drew their final match.
Hockey
The 1st XI has begun the season well remaining unbeaten to date. In the holidays they played Indian Shield winners St Kentigern College beating them 3-2 and 1-0
and also Super 8 champions Hamilton BHS 2-1. After local qualifying rounds they will compete in a regional Midlands secondary school competition in their build up to the Rankin Cup.
Volleyball
Brad Fullerton has been selected in the Under 19 New Zealand team who travel to the World Champs in Portugal next month.
Basketball
The basketballers have also had a good start to the year with them hosting St John’s College, Hamilton BHS and Rosmini College at a quadrangular tournament last month. The side performed extremely well winning their 3 matches against talented opposition.
Football
The side has been playing local competition but has also begun qualifying games for nationals with wins against Western Heights HS (5-2) and St Paul’s Collegiate (1-0).
The most recent result was a 3-2 win over St Peters which means the side has again qualified for the Premier National Football tournament which features the top 16 teams in the country.
Road Cycling
A growing team of riders contested the BOP/Waikato Champs with Mitchell Lowe Under 14 Champion and Theo Wright claiming the Under 15 title.
Wake Boarding
Daniel Tingey contested the national championships and placed 3rd which was good enough for him to be selected in the New Zealand team for the 2013 World Championships in Korea.
MotoCross
TBC sent 16 riders to the national championships and placed 12th out of 47 schools competing.
Judo
Two TBC competitors fought at the WBOP Championships with James Brogan claiming bronze in the Cadets Under 66 kg division and Jonathan Hodges-Ginns also securing bronze in the Junior Men’s Under 66 kg class.
Badminton
Two junior teams won their respective grades at the Bay of Plenty Championships held in Tauranga recently.
Special Olympics Football
Our boys competed in the Regional Championships in Pukekohe where they came away with the gold medal.
Indoor Bowls
TBC dominated the recentBOP Championships with 1st (Josh Saywell) and 2nd (Nash Smith) in Division 1 Singleswhile Stefan McCartain and Nathan Arlidge won the Division 1 Pairs.TBC Bowlers also won Singles and Pairs in Division 2.
Kayaking
A New Zealand Junior team which includes 4 TBC students is competing in Europe as a build-up to the World Championships. Dan Munro and Luke Robinson have been the stand out performers claiming bronze in the Under 16 C2 team event in both Slovenia and Poland.
TBC Arts
Production
The 2013 show of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat played to full houses in the Graham Young Youth Theatre last week with reviews enthusiastically singing the praises of the cast and the music.
Smoke Free Rock Quest
TBC was very well represented in the local finals with students from our school involved in 4 different bands. Stand-out performers were ‘The Incline’ featuring TBC students Alex Twidle & Daniel Kulasingham, Old Boy Cody Mitchell who is now at the Mount and singer Leilani Taula from TGC who placed first and are now busy recording a 15 minute demo for nationals. Our Ben Guernier featured with other Mt Maunganui students in RPM who placed second.
Super 8 Cultural Festival
TBC were well represented in this annual contest this year held in Rotorua gaining 3 firsts, 5 seconds and a third placing in the 13 different events. Placings were as follows:
Visual Art Senior: 1st Adam Staples
Visual Art Junior: 1st Conner Borell
Music Solo Junior: 1st Elijah Tuala
Drama Group: Second
Music Group: Second
Debating Junior: Second
Theatre Sports Senior: Second
Theatre Sports Junior: Third
Other special awards were to the Drama Group who won “Best Ensemble Piece” and to Josh Pereira who won the coveted “Best Actor” award.
Old Boy Achievements
Queen’s Birthday Honours
Hugh McCarroll who went to Tauranga College was honoured in the Queen’s Birthday lists with The New Zealand Order of Merit for services to shearing sports and agriculture. Hugh has competed in national and international shearing competitions since 1967 and been heavily involved in the administration of the sport as well.
Dairying
Two Old Boys who have chosen dairying as a career have been recognized for their success in the industry. Twenty two year old Tangaroa Walker was the 2011 Southland AgITO student of the year and last year he won the Ahuwhenua Trophy as the country’s best young Maori farmer, along with study scholarship and $3000 cash. It is not all work with Tangaroa though as he has represented both Bay of Plenty and now Southland at rugby.
Former physiotherapist Thomas Chatfield has just been named runner up in the 2013 Dairy Industry Awards in their Trainee of the Year competition which included a $4000 prize. He had earlier won the Bay of Plenty competition and contested the finals against 11 others from throughout the country.
United Nations
2005 Head Boy Tim Fletcher completed a law degree before moving on to humanitarian work. He has now begun work as an Observer for the United Nations based in Geneva.
Old Boys Arts
Music
Chase Douglas has completed a Bachelor of Music degree with 1st Class Honours and in 2012 he won one of ten AMP National Scholarships in Performing Arts from around 2000 applicants. This year he has been one of 3 soloists singing with the Bay of Plenty Symphonia in the series of the Proms.
Television
Old Boy Jamie Fitzgerald along with Kevin Biggar has a new series of First Crossings on television. This show retells the stories of pioneer New Zealanders making first trips through our land.
Erik Thomson, who stars as Dave Rafter in the Australian production of Packed to the Rafters has just finished shooting what is to be the last series of this successful show. The second last series has just finished screening this last week in New Zealand.
Music
I’ve just heard that Old Boy Jason Cresswell has been making waves on both sides of the Atlantic as a member of the London-based hard hitting alternative rock band Katalina Clicks. They have toured both the UK and the USA with their debut album The Return of the Montague Rotter and are described as a mix of the Clash and the Kinks. Check out www.katalinakicks.comfor the sound of these guys!!
Old Boys Sport
Rugby
With the local club rugby season approaching the finals stage the Bay of Plenty Union has just announced its squad for the coming ITM Cup competition. The Steamers squad includes the following Old Boys: Tanerau Latimer, Sam Cane, Karl Axtens, Steve Honey, Josh Hall, Nathan Harris and Nick Evemy.
Rowing
Having just climbed the tallest mountain in Africa (Mt. Kilimamnjaro) Mahe Drysdale has got back in his boat and has rowed at the Henley regatta. In a rare occurrence he was beaten but he now has a couple of months to train up before major competitions in Europe later in the year.
BMX Cycling
Olympian Kurt Pickard is currently racing on the American pro circuit and last week competing just outside Chicago he gained his first pro podium finish with minimal build up. Later this month he will be competing against 125 of the world’s best riders at the 2013 UCI BMX World Championships in Auckland.
Cricket
Having been an important part of the BlackCaps tour of United Kingdom Kane Williamson has no international cricket until October and has been invited to play T20 cricket for powerful English County side Surrey alongside Ricky Ponting.
Sailing
Olympians Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have just taken out the gold medal at the 2013 SAP 49er European Championships sailed in Denmark.
Meanwhile Sam Meech won gold in the EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup regatta held at the 2012 Olympic venue of Weymouth.
Football
Longtime All White and professional Tony Lochhead has not been offered a contract with the Wellington Phoenix after Ricky Herbert was replaced as coach. The New Zealand Under 20 World Cup has just been held in Turkey and three Old Boys in the Phoenix; Tyler Boyd, Ryan Thomas and Jesse Edge were all members of the team.
Golf
Tauranga professional Jared Pender has had success on the Queensland Sunshine Tour where he won the ProAm in the Glendene Mining Series.
Kayaking
After serious injury around 6 months ago Mike Dawson is back on the water in his kayak and enjoying success. He has just won the Steep Creek title at the Mountain Games in Colorado for the third time running.
Hockey
Andy Hayward has been with the Blacksticks in Rotterdam where the team came 4th in the Rabobank Hockey World League Semifinal. Since debuting in 2007 Andy has scored 57 goals and played 158 tests.
Running
The North Island cross country championships were held recently over a 9 km. course at Taupo. Glenn Hughes placed a respectable 3rd while Kyle MacDonald was 6th. Glenn was also 3rd in an injury affected New Zealand Mountain running performance which qualified him again for the New Zealand team which will contest the World Championships in Poland in September.
A blockbuster edition this time and I hope there is something of interest here for all of you. I can only do so much and appreciate the news several have passed on to me in the last couple of months. If there is anything of interest please pass the news on to me.
All the best,
Rob Leslie
