The Hibiscus Coast Under 13’s Girls Basketball Team was formed after four years of the Coast not having any girls teams at representative level. None of the girls in this years’ squad have any prior representative level experience but all the girls worked very hard on their individual skills and as a team to improve.
Recently the team participated in the Auckland ‘Inter-City Basketball Tournament’, where 9 teams based from within the greater Auckland area participated in a fierce competition over seven weeks. This tournament was a great build up in preparation for the BBNZ Age Group Premierships hosted at the North Shore Events Centre during the weekend of 5-7 August.
The girls commitment and team work came together to secure a hard fought 4th placing at the Prems, making themselves eligible to compete in the BBNZ Age Group Nationals Tournament”, being held in Napier over the week of October 7 - 21, 2011.
This is the first girls’ representative team from the Hibiscus Coast to make Nationals and the coaches and parents are very proud of the girls
Big congratulations to Leilani Schmidt-Geen, Mia Cunningham-South and Jazmin Tufuga for representing Gulf Harbour School as part of this outstanding achievement and best of luck to them all for the Nationals.
On Monday we had a great cricket session with Dave Evans. He taught us to throw and catch a cricket ball. Dave Evans was from Auckland Cricket and worked with the year 1 to 4s. We played a cool game where you try to hit cricket wickets as hard as you can and knock them down faster than the other team. We had a small game to finish it off. Dave gave out bags with lots of cricket stuff in them like famous cricket player cards, dice cricket and posters. We even got some Milo!
Whilst our Year 7 team finished the day with a full team, our 'unlucky' Year 8 team had several injuries but fought back in the end to win their last game of the day, showing great team work with a few of our Yr 7 students who pitched in to help complete their team.
Our teams did superbly with our Year 4 'G Force' team and our Year 6 'Flames' team taking home the winner's trophies in their age groups.
If you are interested in playing the following sports come along to talk to the delegate and sign up for a summer sport. We accept all abilities social and serious and all sports are for children right through from year 1 to 8. Uniforms are provided for each sport included in the fees. Details of each sport is available on our website www.sportgulfharbour.co.nz
Teams are graded years 1&2, years 3&4, years 5& 6, Years 7&8, years 9-13 mixed or boys.