Athletics Day 2020

 Last week Matawai School had an action packed week with Ag Day and Athletics. But athletics was the most challenging part of last week. 

We started off by lining up in our year groups with a whole lot of other schools and then all the year groups spread off into different sports activities. The year sevens rushed off to highjump. There were only 3 year seven girls from Matawai plus other girls from the different schools. I was proud of how I did but I was also proud of Hayley and Jaimee’s effort because we came top three for high jump. Jaimee = 1st, Hayley =2nd and me ( Rylee ) = 3rd. 

Shotput was up next and that is my least favorite activity for athletics because I don’t have the right technique so it either ends up as a throw or it just doesn't go very far at ALL! Anyway the lady put us into our order that our names were printed and I was the 2nd girl to go. My first shot out of 2 Kate the sports lady clarified it as too much of a throw and she said I could do better. My last shot was perfect and one of the boys ran a measuring tape out and I got approximately 7 - 8 meters.

Slowly walking with Hayley around the high jumpers as we rotated over to the long jump. We got back in our order and the boys were desperate for the girls to go first and they were saying “ladies first.” So we lined up. My heart was beating faster than a blink of an eye and before I knew it I was up. My first jump got about 3 meters then when I went for my second jump I got 1cm less than my first jump.

We headed over to the discus and we waited about 45 minutes to have our turn. And when we arrived over there the year 8’s were still waiting for their turn. So after a long time of waiting later I picked up the discus and threw it. But little did I know that Hayley’s Dad was  taking pictures of us when we threw the discus. He called them our ballerina poses. After my two throws my longest one was 11.2 meters.

Our last thing we had to do was… dun dun dunnnn!!! Sprints. So basically I didn’t get any placings in the sprints but I wasn’t very far behind Zoe Newman in every race. But I tried my hardest and am looking forward to doing it again next year, my final athletics at Matawai.

To finish the day I went and bought Hayley and myself a refreshing juicy ice block and did the team relays. My team did really well and got a solid third. My team had Hohepa, Jaimee, Maranga and myself. That's how I ended a wonderful day.