On Thursday 18th August 2011, Tamaki Intermediate’s boys and girls went to Morrin Road to play Netball. For the girls we had to wear short skirts and dark blue T- shirts with our school logo on it. We played against five schools who were to participate in the game.
First we had to make sure that we put on our sports shoes. We had to then do some warm ups and make sure that we were prepared for our first game against St. Heliers. Our first game started at 9:55 a.m. on a very cold day.
When the alarm went on to say that we had to start our game, we were fully prepared and had a lot of energy. Our games took about half an hour and our break for half time was just for 5 minutes. We won against St. Heliers 6 goals to 1. We were all jumping up and down with excitement.
Our next game was against Stanhope who had some good players, and we won our 2nd game. Our coach Miss. Valoa was a really good coach, because Stanhope’s players were really tall and huge. Miss Valoa told us that they had the height but we had the speed and we weren’t nervous any more.
Next up we had to play against Churchill Park School. They were little but had very good communication amongst themselves. We won this game we were going to play in the semi-finals.
To prepare ourselves for the semi-finals some of us were playing in half court and practiced our our steps, passing skills, pivot skills and shooting skills. We played against Glendowie and won the match.
Then we had to played the final match against Baradene. We lost to Baradene. As we walked off the court our heads were still held high as we were proud of ourselves.
At the end of this busy day, we had to go to sit down on court 4 for the prize giving. The Year 7 girls were placed 2nd. We were tired and exhausted from the games that we participated in. Even though we lost one game we were proud that we represented our school well and earned the 2nd placing.
