We are the Champions!
Friday
2nd September was a historical moment for Yendarra being crowned
winners of the Otara Schools Rugby tournament for the third consecutive year in
the Open boys’ grade. Our girls were also very impressive on the day coming
first equal with Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate and after not being able to play
a semi-final point differential was taken into consideration with our school
losing by 1 point difference.
To celebrate the success and allow
our children to hold this success with them into other areas of the curriculum
our children wrote recounts to remember that great moment of feeling like
champions.
Running
as fast as I could chasing my opponent from the other school I tackled the
player out of the field. I saved a try that allowed us the win because I wanted
to defend our title of being crowned Winner of the Otara schools rugby
competition for 2016.
John-Paul
Room 12
I
ran as quickly as I could to support my team’s hooker and did my best to bridge
and protect the ball so that others in my team could pass the ball on to our
fastest runners. Unfortunately our team knocked the ball on and we had to form
a scrum and then defend. I was feeling exhausted but knew I had that this win
would mean we would be champions.
Narosah
Room 12
We
are so thrilled with our success and know that we have future All Blacks and
Black Ferns growing for future years because of whanau support from home and
the dedicated coaching by Mrs Natasha Toki-Mautairi and Mrs Jazmin Greig as
well as the management on the tournament day of Mrs Ta’a Pritchard.
