Last night’s Sports Awards Dinner at Alexandra Park saw a huge crowd of students and their whanau celebrating a great year in sport for MAGS.
Anika Todd and Roy Tatupu were named Victrix Ludorum and Victor Ludorum respectively, while the Headmaster’s Cup for Team of the Year was shared between three high-achieving teams: the Rugby Girls 1st XV, the Cricket Boys 1st XI and the Basketball Boys Premiers.
The Te Aroha Keenan Cup for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Girls was awarded to Summer Temu, while Marlin Toloa won the comparable boys’ award – the Olympic Cup.
Anika has represented the school in athletics, cricket, football, curling and lawn bowls this year, and was also selected in the Aotearoa Maori Secondary Schools cricket team, the Auckland Women’s A side and the Auckland Hearts Squad.
Roy has performed well in both summer and winter codes, competing in Athletics and playing Volleyball and Softball then 1st XV Rugby in the winter season – and he represented Rugby League during tournament week and a one-off tournament for Netball. Roy was also named in the NZSS Tournament Team for Volleyball this year. In only his second year of playing Rugby he was selected for the Auckland U18 team and the Blues U18 squad.
Summer is Captain of the Premier Netball team and has played in the team since Year 10. This year Summer was named in the New Zealand Secondary schools team who played Australia in June. She captained the MAGS team back to National qualification this year and was also named in the NZ U21 squad. Summer received her 3rd Sports Lion award for Netball this year and this year the trophy for Best Player in Premier Netball.
Marlin captained the MAGS NZSS Waka Ama team this year and won the school’s first Blue Cap for Waka Ama by winning the U19 W1 race as an U16 at NZSS. He also won the U19 World Championship W6 over 500m and 1000m and is the current National U16 W6 Champion and was placed 2nd in the World U16 W6 long distance competition.
The Team of the Year award was shared between Boys Premier Basketball – AKSS Champions for only the 8th time in the 50 years of the competition, Boys 1st XI Cricket – AKSS Champions, the 2nd time in 40 years of the Competition, and Girls 1st XV Rugby – AKSS Champions for the first time in MAGS history.
Guests also enjoyed a panel discussion that was hosted by students Benjamin Roache and Tito Tipi and featured Albertian sportsmen Paul Roache and Adi Ashok. There was also a musical interlude with rendition by Hokioramai Dunn, Kairo Ah Kuoi-Simich and Eved Ah Soon of It’s Now or Never.
You can see a full list of Blue Caps, Black Caps and prizewinners here
