TBC will host their annual Evening at the Theatre which showcases the schools artistic talents in the Graham Young Youth Theatre. Talented students will perform in Barbershop, Theatre Sports, Rock & Jazz groups as well as the Big Band. Tickets are available at the Student Office for $20 if you would like a good evening out.
 

The TBC Old Boys' Association Annual Dinner is to be held on Friday September 13^th in the Graham Young Youth Theatre. Local entrepreneur & philanthropist Tom Roper is to be recognized as our Old Boy of the Year while Rocky Horror creator Richard O’Brien is the Guest Speaker.  Tickets are limited to 200 so get in soon by signing up on the website www.tbcoba.org.nz

At 3 p.m. Old Boy teams will take to the fields against our top basketball, football, hockey, rugby & volleyball sides so get prepared for that action !!! Please let me know on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. about your availability.
 

Visual Art, in the form of paintings and photography, is the focus of our Pergo et Perago exhibition which will take place in the GYYT on this evening. Admission is free and work is available for sale so come along and see what our talented artists are producing.

 

The above featured events – Evening at the Theatre & Pergo et Perago Art exhibiton are both significant events show casing our artistic talents.
 

The last major event for our Big Band is their annual tour which the group has just left on. They are playing at a number of different schools in the Auckland region for the week before heading back for the academic finale to the term.
 

The TBC team qualified for Nationals when they won the BOP tournament recently. In a close fought final TBC beat Whakatane HS 20 to 19.5 with the highlight for TBC being Mathew Ashton’s effort of not losing a game all tournament.
 

A 4 man team won the regional final in this competition which requires the group to advise the RBNZ what action should be taken in the next Monetary Policy Statement.

In the local finals Waikato Dio, Hamilton BHS & 3 other local schools were beaten and the team now travels to Wellington to compete against 5 other regional finalists presenting to the Assistant Governor of the RBNZ.
 

The TBC Prefects have taken up the challenge of MP Chris Tremain to come up with an anti binge drinking message in competition with other Super 8 schools. Support them on Facebook “Super 8 Voice of Change” then ‘like TBC ‘ video clip – “Stand by Me” by Ben E. King. Winners will receive 30 All Black Test tickets.

Basketball 
This team has enjoyed an excellent season which continued in this tournament. They placed 2^nd losing in the final to a strong Hastings BHS combination.
 

Hockey 
The 1^st XI ended 3^rd at this tournament after winning all of its pool games. The crossover against Palmerston North BHS  was dominated by TBC after the opposition scored early but they could not score the equalizer and Hamilton BHS were victorious while TBC won the playoff for third.

Football After an impressive start to the season the footballers hoped for a successful Super 8 campaign however the tournament did not go as well as the boys had hoped and with a win & loss record they ended up 5^th.

The 1^st XV has been depleted by injury in recent times but completed their Super 8 campaign with a fine 22-11 win over Gisborne BHS.  Next weekend they play Rotorua BHS (away) again and victory there would see them

In the holidays there were 10 TBC players selected in a 50 man Chiefs 5 day camp @ St. Peters with 12 from Hamilton & only 4 from Rotorua. Five of our players (Connor Fifita,  Christian Kelly, Mungo Mason, Aiden Ross & Ben Webby) were picked to play in the trial match.

 

Joe Lyons and Hamish McGeorge were vital members of the Midlands Under 18side which won the national tournament with an impressive 5-2 win in the final against Canterbury. These 2 both scored 2 goals in the final and his performances saw McGeorge selected in the New Zealand Tiger Turf Under 18squad.

 

Matt Hansen & Cameron Hayes have just returned from Australia where they were part of  the victorious NZ Water polo team which won the inaugural World Youth Challenge Crown which featured teams from the USA, Australia, Singapore, China and Japan.

 

Our student Sam Barnett combined with Zak Merton from Auckland in the 420 division of the ISAF Youth Sailing competition in Cyprus. They placed a creditable 5^th in the event.

Two Year 11 students in William Bark and Hamish Mackie had the opportunity to test their skills against the best in the world when they competed in the World Championships in Auckland in the last week of the holidays.

 

Daniel Munro & Luke Robinson have just returned from the Junior World Cup in Slovakia where they won bronze in the Under 16 C2 event.

 

Connor Johnson has been selected in the National Under 17 representative team.

 

Daniel Tingey  has been selected in the NZ  team to compete at the World Championships in Korea.

The following teams are competing in winter tournament which comes up the first week of September. As you can see this is a significant commitment to the sportsmen of the College and if you are able to get along to support any of the teams I know they would appreciate it. Most teams will be competing from September 2^nd to the 6^th.

Basketball Senior A – regional competition in Taupo

Basketball Junior A – contest regional finals in Rotorua

Football 1^st XI – Premier NZSS tournament in Taupo

Golf – National championships are to be played at Templeton, Christchurch.

Hockey 1^st XI – Rankin Cup – Wellington – top 16 teams in New Zealand

Hockey 2^nd XI – Woolaston Trophy – Carterton – lower tier 1^st XI Tournament

Hockey White – Tanner Cup – St. Pauls, Hamilton –  U 15 team tournament.

Rugby Under 15 – play against other U 15 teams in Auckland

Rugby Under 14 - contest an Under 14 tournament in Palmerston North

 

In what would be one of our best week-ends of sports results basketball, hockey, rugby  and squash all had successes ……….
 

Squash – Our team retained the National Championship they won for the first time in 2012 with a 3-1 win in the final against Westlake BHS.
 

Rugby – The 1^st XV beat Rotorua BHS for the second time this season in Rotorua 32-22 which qualifies them as BOP champions to play either Wesley College or Hamilton BHS in a televised match at TBC on Sunday September 1^st at 12.45 p.m. for a place in the top 4. The last year we had won in Rotorua was in 1991 so this has been quite a turn around.

Hockey – The 1^st XI hosted a quad tournament featuring last year’s Rankin Cup finalists  in Kings College & Westlake BHS as well as Hamilton BHS who have 5 NZ Under 18 players and are raging hot favourites to win this year. We beat Kings (5-4) and Westlake (2-1) before getting a salutary lesson by HBHS in losing 1-7.
 

Basketball – Both the Senior A & Junior A teams claimed BOP titles with the Seniors  winning their final 137 – 41 against Bethlehem College.

 

Tanerau Latimer and Sam Kane were important members of the Chiefs Super 15 rugby franchise who successfully defended their title in Hamilton.

Daniel Braid has left New Zealand rugby and begun playing for English club Sale.
 

The 2013 National Hockey League has begun and the Midlands team features both of our Blacksticks in Stephen Graham and Andy Hayward. Tom Lysaght  is playing for the Northland team.

Peter Burling & Blair Tuke have won gold in a major regatta in the 49er class at the 2013 SAP European Championships in Denmark.

Jay Carter has experienced the 142^nd British Open Championship at Muirfield as caddie for fellow Kiwi Mark Brown.
 

Kane Williamson took a break from his cricket after the English tour but is now back there and has a short term contract with leading team Yorkshire before he joins the BlackCaps in Bangladesh in October.
 

James Fitzpatrick was a member of the New Zealand team that won the recent World Tree-climbing Championships. He won the head to head foot lock event which involves a timed 15 metre ascent of a free hanging rope.

 

14 year old recent Old Boy Robert Evison follows in Shane Cortese’s footsteps in the cast of New Zealand’s most successful soap opera. His career on the small screen began as a 7 year old with TV commercials but he has now landed the role of Toby Reynolds in Shorty !! With his extremely busy schedule Robert is now being home schooled.

 

Haven Bellamy ,who was better known for his kayaking exploits while at school, has made great strides in his chosen career as a chef. Haven has just won theWaikato/BOP  Apprentice Chef of the Year award and will take on 7 other regional finalists for the national title.

 

Hope the winter has treated you well.  Hope to see you at the Old Boys' Annual Dinner next month.

Please send  me any details about what is going on with others.

All the best for now,

 

Rob Leslie.