Eye on Ruapehu College

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 13, Issue 624, 20 February 1996, Page 12

Eye on Ruapehu College

By

Caroline

Lundberg,

Level 12 Media Studees

student School has started again. A whole new year at Ruapehu College. It didn't take long before we found out that this year was not going to be the same as last year. We are not in Forms any more but in something called Levels. Form 3 is now Level 9, Form 4 is Level 10 and so on. Student Leaders Head boy and head girl for 1 996 are Andrew Murdie and Rebecca McDougal. Deputy head boy and girl are Manu Tuhoro and Raana-Ellen Mareikura. After a few days at school it was time to elect our whanau leaders:, Huia's is Lee McCann with Gloria Peni her deputy, and Nikora Gupwell and Greg Tuthill his deputy; Kiwi, Shey Rangiihi and Tonia Lumsden deputy, and Raymond Hemopo with Richard Shanks deputy. For Tui is Marcia Woods and Gail Ruke, Justin Mackay and Daniel Forster; For Weka is Rebecca Clarke and Kaye Murdie, Manu Tuhoro and John Hays. Swimming Sports On 8 February we held our annual swimming competition. The whole school went to Waiouru and the team spirit in each whanau was very high, We started with the individual championships where Rochelle Te Huia and Jan de Moor dominated the intermediate girls and senior boys respectively. Jan also broke four records, so did Terehia Richards. Everyone did their best in the competitions and the people who didn't swim did a good job on the side screaming and cheering on their whanau mates. One guy lost his pants when he was diving into the water. But accidents like the ones we had always make things more fun. After the individual championships we swam the relays. The teachers swam against Level 11 students and the students won (of course!).

At the end of the day we had fun events swimming with balloons, soccer balls and hoops with a lot of people participating. Tui won the inter- whanau competition with 402 points being ahead of all the other whanau on participation points. Weka was second with 390 points, Huia third with 259 and, Kiwi fourth with 187 points. Mr Haig was in charge of the Swimming Sports 1996. Individual champions were: Junior Boys: 1st Damian Manahi, (Tui); 2nd Shaun Hawira, (Weka). Intermediate Boys: 1st Danley Vince, (Weka); 2nd Justin Mackay, (Tui); 3rd Stewart Hammond, (Tui). Senior Boys 1st Jan de Moor, (Weka); 2nd John Hays, (Weka); 3rd James Beech, (Weka). Junior Girls 1st Terehia Richards, (Weka); 2nd Linda Grave, (Tui); 3rd Hayley Mackay, (Tui). Intermediate Girls 1 st Rochelle T e (Huia), (Kiwi); 2nd Kristine Clark, (Weka); 3rd Sarah Mackay, (Tui). SeniorGirls IstCharmian Oh, (Huia); 2nd Caroline Lundberg, (Weka); 3rd Gisela Bauer, (Tui). New Records JuniorGirls50metresfreestyleTerehiaRichards0.20.44, (Weka). 100 metres freestyle Terehia Richards 1.18.00, (Weka). 50 metres backstroke Terehia Richards 0.26.01, (Weka). Medley Terehia Richards 2.13.34, (Weka). Intermediate Girls 100 metres freestyle Rochelle Te (Huia) 1 .25.30, (Weka). SeniorGirls 50 metres freestyle Charmain Oh 0.22.34, (Huia). 1 00 metres freestyle Caroline Lundberg 1 .29.22, (Weka). 50 metres breaststroke Caroline Lundberg 0.30.38, (Weka). Intermediate Boys 50 metres backstroke Justin Mackay 0.27.25, (Tui). Senior Boys 50 metres freestyle Jan De Moor 0. 1 8. 1 5, (Weka). 1 00 metres freestyle Jan de Moor 1.11 .87, (Weka). 1 length butterfly Jan de Moor 0.22.89, (Weka). Medley Jan de Moor 2.12.10, (Weka). Diving Students who wanted to participate in the diving competition went to Raetihi on Friday 9 February. This time Weka won the inter- whanau competition with 31 points, ahead of Tui which had 27, Huia with 1 6 and Kiwi with 14. Diving results: Junior Girls, 1st Ariana Taura, (Weka). Intermediate Girls 1st RochelleTe (Huia), (Kiwi); 2nd Delphina Ruki, (Tui); 3rd Kataraina Cassidy, (Tui). SeniorGirls 1st Christina Phillips, (Weka); 2nd Cathy Cranston, (Tui). Junior Boys 1st Samual Arahanga, (Kiwi); 2nd Ivan Hall, (Tui); 3rd Andrew Hansen, (Weka). Intermediate Boys 1 st Ashley Brown, (Huia); 2nd Brendon Morgan, (Huia); 3rd Brian Hays, (Weka). Senior Boys 1st Andrew Murdie, (Tui); 2nd John Hays, (Weka); 3rd Phillip Hansen, (Weka).