Winter weather no barrier to Macleans College orienteers
Posted on August 02, 2022
During the recent school holidays, two major orienteering championship events took place in Auckland - the New Zealand Secondary Schools Orienteering Championships and the North Island Secondary Schools Orienteering Championships.
Eleven Macleans College students competed in the 2022 New Zealand Secondary School Orienteering Championship together with over 200 participants from other New Zealand Secondary Schools. Competing students were Amelie Lianto (Snell House), Claire Findlay (Mansfield), Lily West (Upham), Valerie Lau (Batten), Wesley Lau (Kupe), Emily Chan (Kupe), Lucas Lin (Hillary), Ben Honey (Rutherford), Zach Honey (Batten), Caleb Honey (Batten) and Matthew Loh (Hillary).
The Sprint series was held at Mountfort Park, Leabank Primary School and James Cook High School. Long Champs and Relays were held at beautiful Kohekohe with a mixed terrain playground of farmland, gully/spur, sand dune and pine forest.
The students performed really well despite the wet, muddy, and windy weather on the Sprint series.
Final placings were:
Intermediate Girls:
Lily West – 10th in Sprint Championship, 13th in Long Championship
Intermediate Boys:
Ben Honey – 11th in Sprint Championship
Junior Boys:
Wesley Lau – 7th in Sprint Championship, 10th in Long Championship
Junior Girls:
Emily Chan – 3rd in Long Standard
The other three-day event, the North Island Secondary School Orienteering Championships were held at the University of Auckland Epsom campus and Woodhill Forest.
Seven students competed in this championship. Lily West finished 8th in the Sprint event for Intermediate Girls and Ben Honey finished 10th in Sprint Event for Intermediate Boys.
