School News

Results as of yesterday in the New Plymouth Boys' High School Sports exchange:

1st XI Cricket - New Plymouth on 300 for 7, HBHS 197 for 9

2nd XI Cricket - New Plymouth 190 for 7

HBHS Colts Cricket team won the Twenty 20 match - scores to follow

Volleyball - HBHS won 3 - 1

Touch rugby - HBHS won 13 - 3

The annual summer exchange between HBHS and New Plymouth Boys' High School was held at New Plymouth on fhe 18th and 19th February, 2013.  The final results are as follows:

Overall results:  5 wins, 2 losses

HBHS won the exchange 5 - 2

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New Plymouth Boys’ High School Winter Sports Exchange Results Wednesday 2nd June.

Hamilton Boys’ High School won the exchange 8 – 3.  All fixtures were played in New Plymouth.

Click here for full results

HBHS Deputy Principal Nigel Hotham was recently appointed to the coveted position of New Zealand Schools Rugby Head Coach.  He joins Year 12 Dean, Josh Hay, who holds the position of Assistant Coach.

 Mr Hotham commented on the changes that his new role has created:

 My role is to select and coach the New Zealand schools team to test matches this year against Samoa and Australia.  Also this year there is a B team attached to this role that trains under the name New Zealand Barbarians.  I think that’s a really special that both byself and Josh are involved in New Zealand Schools; it’s possibly the first time that two staff from the same school have had a chance to work together in these jobs.  We are responsible for naming the ‘B’ team as well.

In terms of practical responsibilities, it means that we are involved in the selection process.  It is a little bit unusual in that it is a very long selection process for a very short programme.  It is about turning over every rock so that we can get the best squad that we can.  We get nominations from the franchise areas; the Blues, Chiefs, Hurricanes, Bulls, Crusaders.  The nominees go to a franchise camp of about fifty or sixty players on the first week of the holidays.  There will be about 300 boys attending those camps in total.  From that 300, they’ll be narrowed down to 120 boys.  We then view them through to the beginning of September; when a group of fifty will be selected to attend a weekend camp.  We take those fifty away to camp and we select the New Zealand Schools and Barbarians teams from there. 

It is an exceptional end to an exceptional year, and we can present the full list of HBHS medalists from the New Zealand Secondary Schools Athletics Championships held at Porritt Stadium.  The HBHS team (pictured, right, with Mrs Hassall and Mr de Klerk) brought home a total of 7 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals.  For some team members their year is not over.  Double silver medalist Jacob Priddey is off to Melbourne to run in the 2013 Zatopek event on Thursday and returns on Saturday to run in the John Walker Night of Miles.  Other team members will continue to compete in club events and will train over the summer.  (Cont.)