Sporting Achievements
Each year Villa Maria College celebrates numerous South Island, National and International sporting successes attained by students and College teams.
Each year, the College recognises the top sporting achievers through the College Sports Awards which are held in October of each year. View the most recent results here.
The College has nurtured many NZ sporting stars, including Commonwealth Games swimming star of the 1970's Jaynie Hudgell (nee Parkhouse) and Silver Ferns Bernice Mene and Anna Galvan (nee Veronese). For more information about our Graduate sports achievers click here.
More recent National and International individual achievers include:
| Cecilia Tufuga 2010 NZ Artistic Gymnastics team to the World Games in Hawaii. |
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 | Haley Mercer 2010 NZ Under 19 Girls' Cycling Team to compete in the DBR Australia Junior and Women's Canberra Tour. |
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 | Grace Prendergast 2010 member of the NZ Junior Rowing Team to compete at the World Junior Rowing Championships in the Czech Republic. |
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 | Rachel McCann 2010 NZ Under 17 Hockey Team to compete at the Youth Olympics in Singapore. 2009 NZ Junior (U18) Hockey Team |
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| Amelia Coleman 2010 NZ Rhythmic Gymnastics Team |
 | Kate Hanning 2010 NZ Rhythmic Gymnastics Team |
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 | Nicki McFadzien 2009 NZ Junior World Cross Country Team
2008 NZ Cross Country Team - Winners, World Secondary Schools' Cross Country Championships, Czech Republic
2007 NZ Secondary Schools' Cross Country Team |
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 | Brittany Duncraft 2009 NZ Youth Girls' Futsal Team
2009 NZ Youth Women's Futsal Team |
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 | Johanna Theelen 2008 & 2009 NZ Junior Women's Waterpolo team |
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 | Alexandra Boyd 2008 & 2009 NZ Junior Women's Waterpolo team |
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 | Marina McCarthy 2009 NZ Athletics Team to the Commonwealth Youth Games (High Jump)
2008 NZ Athletics team, Commonwealth Youth Games, India |
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Villa Maria College teams have also enjoyed many South Island and National Secondary School successes including more recent accolades:
2009 NZSS U17 Coxed Sculls Rowing Champions
Ruth Hotop, Michelle Barry, Katie Middleton-Tansey, Grace Prendergast, Rachel McCann |  |
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Villa Maria College Netball A Team
2008 NZSS Netball Champions
2008 SISS Netball trophy for highest goal average
2008 SISS Netball Champions
(also held by Villa 1986 - 1988 and 1990 - 1992)
2008 Sport Canterbury
- Overall Outstanding Winter Junior Team
2009 Sir Richard Hadlee Canterbury Sports Awards - Most Outstanding Junior Sports Team
To read more about College netball click here. |  |
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2008 SISS Cycling Hayden Godfrey Challenge Cup
for the school with the most points overall |  |
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2006 Oamaru Girls' Rugby Festival
Best All Round Team |  |
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ZONTA SPORTS AWARDSZonta International is a global organisation of executives and professionals working together to advance the status of women worldwide through service and advocacy, who strive to provide service globally and locally.
The Zonta Sports Awards were established in 1990 and celebrate the sporting successes of young men and women at secondary schools throughout Canterbury and the West Coast. Awards are made in seven categories and judged by a panel of five eminent sportspeople. The winners are announced in late October at a prestigious dinner. Some previous Zonta Sports Awards winners are already world champions. Many have represented New Zealand in their sporting codes. |
| 2008 Senior A Netball team | 2009 Category Five - Most Outstanding Team of Young Sports Women.
The criteria period for these Awards is 1 Sept 08 to 31 Aug 09, so this win incorporated the team's outstanding wins at the South Island Secondary Schools' Champs in 2008 and winning the coveted New Zealand Secondary Schools' title. |
| Katie Rasmussen (Year 12) | 2009 Category Two - Contribution to Sports Administration by a Young Woman in a position of umpire, referee, coach or tutor. In 2009 Katie coached a netball team and gained her Centre badge for Christchurch Netball so as well as her team umpiring commitments, she also umpired additional games every Saturday and on Fridays often reffed up to 3 games of basketball in the College gymnasium. This is a fitting award for her commitment to sport at Villa. |
Read more about Villa Maria College sport as it appeared in the local Mail newspaper in 2008
