text: King's sent two teams of shooters to take part in the South Island and National Clay Target Shooting Championships at the Canterbury Clay Target Club.
  During the second week of the holidays the Year 9 cricketers toured in the Bay of Plenty. Three matches were played against the Coastlands Under-15 reps.
  The NZ Secondary Schools' Cycling Championships were held in Palmerston North in the last weekend of Term 3. The following notable performances were obtained:
  In the Team Time Trial event:
  • The Boys Under-16 team placed 5th out of 31 teams
  • The Boys Under-20 team placed 18th out of 31 teams
  In the Points event:
  • Tyler Jerram placed 25th out of 53 in the Under-15 Boys race
  • Henry Dunne placed 29th out of 71 in the Under-16 Boys race
  • Joshua Knox placed 23rd out of 65 in the Under-17 Boys race
  • Ellis Tagg placed 19th out of 75 in the Under-20 Boys race
  Overall, King's College placed 19th out of the 54 schools taking part. Well done to all of the cyclists on what has been a very successful season.
  On the first weekend of the holiday, King's played matches against two invitational sides from Tonga. In the 13As match, King's played some attractive football and in the end displayed too much skill and team work for their opponents, eventually winning 7-0.
  All of the rowers trained at Auckland Rowing Club from Monday to Friday of the second week of the holidays. Good progress was made by all age groups and the crews are starting to gel in preparation for the Term 4 racing programme.
  After his amazing achievement at the Youth Olympics, Dylan Schmidt has been busy again. Last weekend he won the New Zealand Men's National title and also won the prestigious New Zealand Trampoline Athlete of the Year award.