Netball

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2011 11 girls, 1 manager, 1 coach, 1 umpire and one week of tough, hard and gruelling netball.

 NZAIMS Games started on the 5th of September and ended on the 10th, mean while in that week 14 different sporting codes were being played by over 3 thousand intermediate aged children.

 Our Pukekohe Intermediate School netball team was apart of the netball sporting code, playing a total of 10 games. Playing teams from all over the country including students from Christchurch, each team was a different degree of difficulty, which pushed us to our ultimate limit physically and mentally.

 Our first day wasn’t as successful as we had hoped losing our first three games, but luckily on the next day we bounced back and won both of our games by a convincing margin, which put us in B grade. Whilst in B grade we won 3 of our 4 games, which was good enough to get us to play off for the title of 21st or 22nd out of 48 teams against Baradene College in Remuera. With all the training throughout the year and this tournament we were able win with a score of 38 to 15.

 All in all the girls put in a fantastic performance showing great sportsmanship towards all other teams and continuously developing their netball skills to the best of their ability, even if the weather wasn’t on our side most of the time. Congratulations to everyone involved you deserve it.

 By Shannon Cockerton and Jacqui Smith

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