Winter Tournament Update

Many of our students participated in the annual Winter Tournament last Thursday and Friday.
Here are some of the sports reviews from our class...

Hi I'm Seth and I participated in the hockey at winter tournament.
I think it went really well even though we did not win. The opposition were really hard and good hockey players. We were polite, happy, enthusiastic and good sports. 
We came 6th out of 7 teams. We had a lot of fun a big thanks to Mrs. Parker for organizing it.

The Waimea Intermediate girl’s winter tournament basketball team participated in the top of the south Intermediate Winter Tournament alongside Nelson Prep, Nelson Intermediate, Baholly, Brodgreen and Renwick. Day one, our basketball team had four games winning them all by over 20 points, the whole team was overwhelmed with excitement after that day and we couldn’t wait for day 2. Day 2 was also a long day with another 4 games but we won our games by more than 20 points again and entering the final with another strong lead and winning the trophy for 2017.

By:Maia Jones and Paris Hart

Boys Football

I'm Sam, the vice captain of the Winter Tournament Football Team.

We had a really strong team this year and smashed the competition, winning every game by at least 4 goals (including the final!) We were over the moon after winning the tournament, it was a shame the first day was rained off, but we managed to play 4 games in on Friday. I’d like to thank Ms. Bibby for coaching us and helping us be able to work together as a team. Also I’d like to thank Mr. White and the girls football team for letting us train against you. It was the first time in 10 years Waimea had won the tournament and it won’t be our last. 

The Waimea Intermediate 8A netball team played extremely well, but sadly losing to B.I.S, just 1 point in the grade 2 finals. The winter tournament  was a great experience for all of our netball team because we had a lot of fun. On the first day 2 of our 5 games got called off because it was raining but the rest of the day went on . The Waimea 8As did amazing in the tournament and I know our coach is very proud .  By: Lilly Zwart

It was Thursday morning, the first day of Winter Tournament, and the rain bucketed down and thrashed against the window of the art room, where all of the football girls were meeting with Mr White. The fields were very muddy and wet so we couldn't start our Winter Tournament in this weather. Mr Brunning had finally agreed for us to use the school fields, so we ended up playing two friendly games against the Bohally girls football team. The next day it was time for competition and we all hopped on the bus after we'd done the roll so we could go to Nelson Intermediate to play football. We meet our coach Matt at the playing fields and we had a bye for the first game, so we had time to eat, warm up and talk about the game ahead. We won our first game 2-0 in the last two minutes against Broadgreen and we went straight to the final. The final was intense against Bohally and the first half they were up 1-0, but we regained our strength and got the score up and when the final whistle blew the score was one all and we went straight to the penalty goals. It was best of five shots and it was Bohally's turn first. We only managed to get one out of the five goals and Bohally got four so we lost our five year winning streak. I think that our team worked really well together and at the end of the day I think that we had fun and we tried our best and that's what matters.
By Olivia Christall

Liam at Badminton