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Important information on our revised 2020 Winter Sports Season

The WSS Sports Association Executive (Principals & Sport Waikato) met on Wednesday to confirm the season start and finish dates for all winter sports codes. See below.

With the cancellation of all NZSS sanctioned tournaments in Winter Tournament week and the cancellation of two of our annual sports exchanges, the Super 8 schools made a decision to use Winter Tournament week to play all Super 8 competitions previously scheduled to run through Terms 2 and 3. In addition to the annual fixtures, it was decided to include the junior premier teams in the codes of basketball, hockey, football and rugby in their own competition. These senior and junior Super 8 tournaments will be the pinnacle of our boys' winter sports season. See the attached document for the host schools and dates of these new tournaments. HBHS will be hosting the Junior Super 8 Basketball tournament.

The Rugby 1st XV and 2nd XV teams will play their annual, weekly, round-robin competition commencing Week 1 Term 3. See below for their draw and dates.

The Super 8 Clay Target competition format is still to be confirmed. It will either be a postal shoot or a stand-alone event that ties in with the NISS competition in the September holidays. We are waiting for a confirmed NISS date.

More details will come out soon around budgets and how to prepare for these tournaments.

The Tauranga Boys' College exchange has been moved from the end of term 2 to Thursday 20th August (Term 3 Week 5). The same 12 fixtures will be played as in 2019. HBHS is the host school this year. This will allow all our junior and senior premier teams some quality opposition leading into the various Super 8 competitions a fortnight later, as well as being the 1st XV and 2nd XV rugby round to play Tauranga. See below for the confirmed fixtures scheduled.

With the government announcement on Monday 8th June, we will know when we are going to Alert Level 1. An update on what that means for sport here at HBHS will come out early next week.

2020 WINTER SPORTS SEASON DATES CONFIRMED

WAIKATO SECONDARY SCHOOLS’ COMPETITION START & FINISH DATES:

Confirmed by the Waikato Secondary Schools’ Sports Association Executive, Wednesday 3^rd June 2020

Code	Dates	WSS Grade
Rugby	Saturday 25^th July - 19^th September	All Grades
Basketball	Friday 26^th June - Friday 25^th September	Premier
Basketball	Tuesday 21^st July - Thursday 24^th September	Graded
Football	Saturday 27^th June - Saturday 19^th September	Premier
Football	Saturday 27^th June - Saturday 5^th September	Graded
Hockey	Wednesday 22^nd July - Wednesday 23^rd September	Premier A & B
	Monday 20^th July - Monday 21^st September	D Grade
	Tuesday 21^st July - Tuesday 22^nd September	C Grade
Lacrosse	Sunday 28^th June - Sunday 27^th September	Boys League
Table Tennis	Friday 31^st July - Friday 25^th September	Interschool
Badminton	Tuesday 28^th July – Tuesday 14^th September	Div 1 & 3
Badminton	Thursday 30^th July - Thursday 16^th September	Div 2
Golf	Monday 31^st August – Wednesday 2^nd September	Matchplay
Golf	Thursday 3^rd - Friday 4^th September	Strokeplay
Volleyball	Thursday 17^th September – Term 4	Junior

One Day Events:

Code	Date	Competition
Squash	Thursday 30^th July	WSS Teams
Squash	Tuesday 4^th August	WSS Individual
Cross Country	Wednesday 9^th September	WBOP
Table Tennis	Friday 18^th September	WSS Singles
Cycling	Monday 31^st August	WSS
Mtn Biking	Wednesday 2^nd September	WSS

ANNUAL SPORTS EXCHANGE:

The annual sports exchange with Tauranga Boys’ College has been shifted to Thursday 20^th August (Week 5 Term 3).

Hamilton BHS will be hosting all 12 fixtures:

Rugby 1^st XV, Rugby 2^nd XV, Rugby U15, Rugby U14
Football 1^st XI, Football Year 10A
Hockey 1^st XI, Hockey Development (U15)
Basketball Senior, Basketball Junior
Golf Top 8
Squash Top 6

NZ SUPER 8 SCHOOLS’ EVENTS

Confirmed by the Super 8 Schools’ Headmasters.

Due to the cancellation of all NZSS sanctioned tournaments during winter tournament week, all Super 8 events will be held for both senior and junior premier teams, as well as Badminton which was scheduled in term 3.
Super 8 Clay Target Shooting is still to be confirmed as a postal or stand-alone event.
Super 8 Cross Country is scheduled for Monday 24^th August in Gisborne.

Super 8 events scheduled for Winter Tournament Week:

Event	Dates	Host School
Football Senior	Mon 31 Aug - Wed 2nd Sept	Rotorua
Basketball Senior	Mon 31 Aug - Wed 2nd Sept	Tauranga
Hockey Senior	Mon 31 Aug - Wed 2nd Sept	Tauranga
Badminton	Mon 31 Aug - Wed 2nd Sept	Napier
Basketball Junior	Thurs 3rd Sept - Sat 5th Sept	Hamilton
Hockey Junior	Wed 2nd - Fri 4th Sept	New Plymouth
Football Junior	Wed 2nd - Fri 4th Sept	Palmerston North
U14 Rugby	Mon 31 Aug - Wed 2nd Sept	Palmerston North
U15 Rugby	Mon 31 Aug - Wed 2nd Sept	Hastings
Clay Target	To Be Confirmed	Postal Shoot: Waikato Gun Club

N.B. Junior draws will follow the same format and seedings as senior draws. U15 Rugby draw

to follow placings/seedings from U14 Rugby tournament 2019.

Super 8 Rugby 1^st XV and 2^nd XV Round-Robin Competition:

Round	Date	Vs	Venue
1	Saturday July 25th	New Plymouth BHS	Away
2	Saturday August 1st	Palmerston North BHS	Home
3	Saturday August 8th	Rotorua BHS	Away
4	Saturday August 15th	Napier BHS	Home
5	Thursday August 20th	Tauranga BC	Home
6	Saturday August 29th	Hastings BHS	Away
7	Saturday September 5th	Gisborne BHS	Home
Semi-Final	Saturday September 12th	1 v 4, 2 v 3, 5 v 6, 7 v 8	To Be Confirmed
Final	Saturday September 19th	1 v 2	To Be Confirmed