Sports News and Results 24 March 2022

Rustenburg host the U16 Hockey and Netball Champions Cup tournament on 8 and 9 April this year. It is the 6th edition of this tournament after the 2-year pandemic. We have 15 Hockey Teams and 14 Netball teams attending our tournament. In total, we have 450 participants – players, coaches and management. We have secured a sponsor for the event, Varsity College. T-shirts and goody bags are currently being manufactured and printed, however, we are still looking for goodies to place in the goody bags. If there is someone out there who can provide 450 of an item for us to swell these bags we would so appreciate you making contact with us. Thanks in advance should you be able to assist us.

Sign-up for Winter sport started on Monday 21 March and closes on Friday 25 March at noon. Please make sure you are on one of the Sports registers for Terms 2 and 3.

Our 1st Football and Netball Teams will be competing in the Reddam Tournaments from 31 March to 2 April. Our U19A Fairmont Easter Tournament team will be participating from 30 March to 2 April at Fairmont and the surrounding schools. We wish all our players and coaches the best of luck.

School Sport

On-the-Move

The On-the-Move activity started in March 2021 and has become very popular with the participants. Anyone may participate in this activity on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays. Learners walk or run the trail route on the campus up to a maximum of 3 laps in an afternoon. In this way, they accumulate kilometres and work their way into the Rusty Runners Club (RRC).

Membership of the RRC starts with 25km completed.

The Awards are as follows:

Bronze standard – 25km
Silver standard – 50km
Gold standard – 75 km
Platinum standard – 100km
Double Gold standard – 150 km
Double Platinum standard – 200km

We are very excited to announce our first member to achieve the PLATINUM standard.

TOTAL kmsNAMESURNAMEFORM
NEW PLATINUM 100km+
101MorganHunterB4

The following participants have reached new milestones this past term:

TOTAL kmsNAMESURNAMEFORM
NEW GOLD 75km +
88Siennade Pomeroy-LeggB5
85DanicaTurnerC6
82IsabellaWrightB5
81AmeeraCoe B
80MeeraBeattieC5
79AlexArendseB
77Mthombo GwadisoB
TOTAL kmsNAMESURNAMEFORM
NEW SILVER 50km +
63MichaelaSmithC3
62MeganMcKenzieD
59EllaBooysenC6
58MadisonBaileyB
55NatalieMawmanE6
53Aa’ishahKhanE
51JorjaAnnisonD
51RaniaHigginsC5
50CaitlinJacksonD
50SihleMaswanaB

Special mention should be made of Lizé Solomons in Grade 8 who has already completed 30 kilometres in her first term at Rustenburg. 

TOTAL kmsNAMESURNAMEFORM
NEW BRONZE 25km +
38TaylaAlbertsC3
38MadisonBaileyB5
33MayaVogtB2
31VedikaKalanB
31LoganJohnstonB1
31GennaVan Der WaltB4
30IsabellaGhignoneB
30Aaliyah IsmailB
30LucyJamesC1
30LizéSolomonsA4
29SarahEssackB
29LirandzuSimangoB6
28RachelVan SchalkwykD
28RayaNathooB
28TamsynArendseC
28MeganDamstraB6
28CatherineHaywardB
28LindokuhleMdunyelwaC2
28KhanyisileNokwaliB5
27Payal SomaiD
27NiaMcGowanC
27TinaTsutsuB
27GemmaForbesC5
27HaniyaHashimB4
27JennaThomasB1
26LucyJamesC
26IsabelGomesB
26GennaVan Der WaltB
26HudaKaskerC
26CassidyPhilanderC3
25AsiyahAdamsB5
25HannahDammertB

Outdoor Hockey

Hockey Report for DF Malan and Milnerton

For the second consecutive weekend, our teams were out at various pre-season festivals.

The RGHS U14A team played in the SALT DF Malan Tournament, where matches were played at DF Malan and Durbanville High School. It is great to see how happy all the learners are, and a massive thank you to the U14A Coach and Parents for a wonderful weekend.

SALT DF Malan U14A Results:

OPPONENTSCORE
Paarl Girls0-1
Bloemhof0-5
Rhenish0-0
Parel Vallei0-0
DF Malan0-0
Paarl Gim0-2
Stellenberg0-0

Congratulations to our U14A SALT DF Malan Tournament Team.

While our U16A team got a break and are looking forward to playing in the Rustenburg Champions Cup on 8 and 9 April, the RGHS U19 team took part in the Milnerton Hockey Festival. The matches were played at Edgemead High School and Elkanah House.

Milnerton Hockey Festival Results:

OPPONENTSCORESCORERS
Edgemead3-0Ally Goulding, Amber de Villiers & Christy Augustine
Elkanah5-0Jodie Blows x 3, Nina von der Heyden & Christy Augustine
Parel Vallei5-0Jodie Blows x 3, Nina von der Heyden & Christy Augustine
The Settlers3-1Lucy Kane x 2 & Isla Barbour

Congratulations to our U19A Milnerton Hockey Festival Team.

Netball

RGHS U19A (1st Team) played a warm-up match against Westerford on Tuesday 22 March. The team played exceptionally well and won 36-15. This bodes well for a good season ahead.

Well done to Coach Vanessa and our players.

Swimming

It was fun to enjoy another A-league gala and we thank Rondebosch Boys High School for hosting this event. We do hope that we will be back to the wonderfully newly renovated 50m pool at Newlands in 2023. Results of the A-league gala swum at RBHS on Wednesday 16 March.

1stHerschel232
2ndSt Cyprians217
3rdSpringfield177
4thStellenberg164
5thRustenburg156
6thDF Malan131
7thFairmont115
8thMilnerton78
9thDSK64

Individual Swimming news:

Skye Micklethwaite (Grade 10) competed in the Level 3 Championships held this past weekend.
Skye swam exceptionally well and PB’d in 6 out of her 8 events and qualified for the South African Regional Championships in one of her events.

Skye placed first in the 200m backstroke and 100m fly events and second in the 400m freestyle.
Her all-female relay team came first in all their events and her mixed team came third in their one relay.
Congratulations on these outstanding and well-deserved results.

Skye with all her medals – a very successful weekend

Touch Rugby

Exciting news for 4 of the RGHS WP Touch Rugby players as they have been included in a U18 Squad to potentially represent SA at the 2023 World Cup in Manchester, UK. Congratulations to Alhaan Emeran; Saarah Magiet; Azra Mahmood (Grade 11s) and Loren-Kate Dicks (Grade 10).

From left to right: Saarah, Loren-Kate, Alhaan and Azra.

Non-School Sport

Deepsea Angling

Karla Rautmann (Grade 11) has been selected to represent WPDSAA (Western Province Deep Sea Angling Association) in the U19 team at the Junior Bottom Fish Nationals to be fished in Port St Francis from 27 March to 2 April 2022. 

Karla was also selected to represent SADSAA (South African Deep Sea Angling Association) in the U19 team to fish in the Senior Bottom Fish Nationals to be held in East London from 26 April to 1 May 2022.  SADSAA colours is the intermediate phase between Provincial Colours and National/ Protea Colours and as such, selection for a SADSAA team is a tremendous achievement and honour.  Huge congratulations on your selection and good luck for the upcoming tournaments.