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Kaimai School has two more WBOP champions, with year 8 students, Darren Skudder and Kayla McDonald taking out gold at the recent Western Bay of Plenty Year 7 and 8 Athletics Championships.
Intermediate aged students from Waihi to Te Puke to Rotorua came together to compete at the Tauranga Domain on Wednesday 28th of November.
Darren took out the Year 8 boy’s shot put title.
“Overall, it was good,” said Darren, a student of few words.
Last year Darren came second in the shot put. Darren is tall for a year 8 student, standing at 1:83cm, but felt average size in the competition.
Darren’s first throw put him in first place and he never looked back. His winning throw was 12.6 metres with the second place thrower almost a metre behind.
Darren was also placed forth in the discus. “I was pretty disappointed with my throws. I had been throwing 27 metres at school but could only manage 25 metres on the day,” said Darren. If Darren had thrown his usual 27 metres it would have put him in the top three.
Next year Darren wants to focus on rugby. “I really want to get into the A team at Tauranga Boys’, that’s my goal.”
Kayla went into the high jump competition not expecting to do very well. “I was jumping in the 1:20s at school, and I expected that I needed to be jumping way higher than that to be in with a chance,” said Kayla.
However, when there was only four jumpers left Kayla knew that she could get a top three placing.
“At the Western Bays they were allowing the other girls to do the Fosbury Flop over the bar. I was doing the scissors jump because it is the only style I can do,” said Kayla.
Once the height got up to 1:32 metres there were only two jumpers left. Kayla cleared this height but the other student couldn’t. Kalya went on to jump 1:38 metres.
“I was really excited. Everyone from the school was cheering me on and Mum screamed out when she knew I had won,” said Kayla. “I really only did high jump for fun this year. I am not sure about next year, I would like to give it another go.”
Kayla and Darren now join year 8 cross country champion, Rebekah McCafferty, as the three Western Bay of Plenty Champions in 2012 at Kaimai School.
“We have eleven Year 8 students and three of them have won WBOP titles this year,” said Principal, Dane Robertson. “This is a fantastic result and it is great to see Kaimai students beating the large colleges and intermediates from around the Bay of Plenty. All three of our WBOP champions are great role models for our school and hopefully they have inspired our younger students too.”

Our students have competed in athletics events this week.  Congratulations to Sonya Harnett, Shyanne Erueti, Tessa Olsson, Bianca Collins, Kayla McDonald, Caycee Prior, Brad Skudder, Ben Olsson and Darren Skudder for being selected to represent the Central Cluster at the WBOP Athletics Championships later this month.

Results of the KRSA Year 4 to 6 Athletics day will be published soon.